Beer in Cans

[Nightbiker]

Plus you can't crush bottles on your head like cans unless you want to go to the hospital.

hehehe. Good safety tip!

 

[drummerguysteve]

I have a funny feeling that crushing a can on my head might still cause an injury...

 

[iaefebs]

I have a funny feeling that crushing a can on my head might still cause an injury...

It's in the technique, with your hand over the end of the can use your fingers to dent the can as it approaches your forehead. Give it some good speed. Won't hurt a bit. Go ahead and try and be sure to post back the results.

 

[McMalty]

Woah! Well I am wrong then.

As for michelob, I just mean their new "slim" can thing...

I think BMC is pretty much excluded from this conversation...

 

[Rundownhouse]

Tasty crack cans

Wait, I thought they were saying, "Tasty craft cans" as the commercial fades out...

 

[BigJerk]

I'm drinking a tasty scapegoat from big sky outta can right now!

 

[Nightbiker]

Dunno about cans, but crushing a bottle with my forehead would earn me some stitches, probably a concussion as well... The whole "can" thing is kind of moot from a homebrewer perspective since I doubt any of us could afford the required equipment in the first place. IF it were within range, I'd certainly put a bit of it in cans. I mean, smaller cans than my kegs (grin -now THATS what I call a "tall boy") -I think it would be pretty cool -though if it changed the flavor of the beer, this would end real quick. However, as the cans have liners, I doubt you end up with aluminum-flavored beer...

 

[emjay]

How cool would it be to see a business that cans homebrew. Maybe a major LHBS in a really big homebrewing market would be a great way to test the viability (or even a separate business partnered with the LHBS). Bring in your fermentor, leave with two cases of cans (or pick it up later)... maybe even a discount if made from one of their kits.

Of course, it all comes down to cost, and it could very well be obviously totally impractical once the numbers are crunched. I admittedly have zero idea what the cost of such a setup would be. Although given the size of some of the craft breweries doing cans around here, I don't think it can be TOO FAR out of reach. Heck, such a business could even use the off-time after hours to do canning runs for nanobrewries, smaller microbreweries, etc.

 

[drummerguysteve]

I'd surely pay a premium to get my beer canned. They would pack so much neater into long-term storage than bottles.

I think you may be onto something.

 

[Ghostly]

Sixpoint just started canning, after being only available on draft before.

 

[amartinez]

Wait, I thought they were saying, "Tasty craft cans" as the commercial fades out...

I've always thought it was "Tasty crack cans."

/shrug

 

[logan3825]

Cans are superior to bottles. Less air permeable than bottles and definitely less light permeable. Most of the "metal taste" associated with beer in cans is because people drink the beer out of the can. I believe the initial cost of canning lines are higher than bottling lines.

 

[Improbable]

My issue with cans is that proponents always mention how they can go places other beer can't. Parks, the beach, backpacking, etc. But when I have to drink directly from the can (which I would in most of those situations), I absolutely abhor the way the can tastes. I know the beer tastes fine when I pour it into a glass, but I can taste the can itself and it's disgusting to me.

The funny thing is that with a mild beer like your basic Bud or Coors (which I'll have to drink from cans depending on whose barbecue I'm at) the can doesn't seem to make it any worse (which would be difficult, anyway). But with something more flavorful, like 21st Amendment's IPA, the change is painful.

 

[Beerrific]

My issue with cans is that proponents always mention how they can go places other beer can't. Parks, the beach, backpacking, etc. But when I have to drink directly from the can (which I would in most of those situations), I absolutely abhor the way the can tastes. I know the beer tastes fine when I pour it into a glass, but I can taste the can itself and it's disgusting to me.

The funny thing is that with a mild beer like your basic Bud or Coors (which I'll have to drink from cans depending on whose barbecue I'm at) the can doesn't seem to make it any worse (which would be difficult, anyway). But with something more flavorful, like 21st Amendment's IPA, the change is painful.

Bring a Dixie cup.

 

[BigJerk]

+1 to that, I recently went camping with some friends and brought along a keg. Pint glasses were impractical, but "keg cups" worked just fine. Maybe not as nice to drink out of as glass, but better than drinking Bud outta cans!

 

[doctorRobert]

Theyre not passing that discount onto the consumers. All the craft beer Ive been able to find in cans has been more expensive than bottled beer.

 

[emjay]

Theyre not passing that discount onto the consumers. All the craft beer Ive been able to find in cans has been more expensive than bottled beer.

Cans generally are. At least around here, they've got a larger volume.

 

[logan3825]

My issue with cans is that proponents always mention how they can go places other beer can't. Parks, the beach, backpacking, etc. But when I have to drink directly from the can (which I would in most of those situations), I absolutely abhor the way the can tastes. I know the beer tastes fine when I pour it into a glass, but I can taste the can itself and it's disgusting to me.

The funny thing is that with a mild beer like your basic Bud or Coors (which I'll have to drink from cans depending on whose barbecue I'm at) the can doesn't seem to make it any worse (which would be difficult, anyway). But with something more flavorful, like 21st Amendment's IPA, the change is painful.

You shouldn't be drinking most craft beer out of the bottle anyway.

 

[Nightbiker]

You shouldn't be drinking most craft beer out of the bottle anyway.

you afraid of a little yeast?
If its bottled, I'll usually drink it from the bottle. Though when I have my favorite stein handy, it goes into that.

 

[LarryC]

SWMBO bought these glasses for when we go camping - work great for homebrew/craft brews. I've tried a few Maui's and 21st amendment, both were good and I poured both into a glass.

One other big cost savings for brewers using cans is shipping - they pack more densely and weigh less...

good "glasses"

Edit: Don't put them in the dishwasher unless you like Salvador Dali looking glasses

 

[Willum]

I have never, nor I think I ever will, seen a craft beer in a can.

Say what? One of my favorites.

 

[logan3825]

you afraid of a little yeast?
If its bottled, I'll usually drink it from the bottle. Though when I have my favorite stein handy, it goes into that.

Nope not at all. Yeast isn't part of the preferred way to serve most beers.

 

[Nightbiker]

Understandable, then. Its just a downright convenient package (when I don't have my favorite mug handy)

 

[Willum]

Just picked this up. First time I have seen Harpoon in cans.