WissaBrewGuy
Well-Known Member
Well I figured I would get a ton of blowback from the PET statement... In today's world, PET is unavoidable: it is cheap and the most recyclable plastic that is safe for food. Anyone who leaves this keg in a hot car obviously doesn't care about their beer anyway so that is obviously not a reality. The hot car is just an example of what can happen when a plastic is left out in a hot environment and exposed to UV light. Now that I have seen a cutaway of the thing i can see that the beer is not even held in the container that would experience these conditions, especially due to the common location of a keg being the fridge. I'm not some worry wort who is assuming that everything except un-glazed ceramics and glass will cause cancer, the science just isn't there, but I am someone who looks at trends and scientific reasoning to come to a real conclusion; PET is not as sturdy as HDPE and HDPE is what is typically used in the food containing industry. I just want to know what led the engineer to choose PET over HDPE, that's all.