My rant about bottles:
If you were a venture capitalist and someone came to you and said they were starting a company, and that they were going to manufacture a product, your next question would be, "How are you going to package it for sale?" They reply, "I'm going to put it in the most expensive, environmentally-unfriendly, expensive to ship, bulkiest, fragile, unstable, dangerous, least-recyclable container I can find, which has to be filled by incredibly large, noisy, complex, expensive, power-sucking machines, and then has to be labeled with messy quasi-toxic glue and expensive labels."
You would laugh in their face. But somehow, breweries get loaned money all the time to do just that.
Stigma or no stigma, cans are simply the best option. If you take a canning line and a bottling line of the same price, the canning line will be half the size, less complex (and therefore less likely to break), and MUCH faster. Cans are cheaper than bottles outright. They do not shatter into a billion pieces when dropped, throwing tons of harmful dust and shards everywhere. Bottles are very top-heavy, and like to tip over on conveyors for no reason at all, causing lots of stoppage and therefore lost productivity and money. More communities recycle cans, and it is cheaper for them to melt aluminum down than glass. They are quieter. Cans can be packed more efficiently, and therefore shipped more efficiently, saving money. They are pre-labled, eliminating the need for a labeler. They cool off faster in a cooler or refrigerator.
End rant. Thanks for listening.
