Shipyard Brewery...you're dead to me

[sweed]

I stick with 22oz bottles and don't worry about twist off.

Bombers are a win win. Faster to bottle, and easier to store... and 2 bombers sounds better to say you drank instead of 4 beers, lol.

 

[Knecht_Rupprecht]

The OP is missing out on the greatness that is Oskar Blues brewery, as they can all of their beer. The trend is certainly to can everything, so maybe in a few years the OP won't have anything to drink at all. Poor OP!

Topher - certainly know Oscar Blues well and have spent many a night at the pub. That said I probably won't have a Dale's (outside of a bar/restaurant) the net few weeks.

 

[amandabab]

. If your favorite beer in the whole world suddenly became available only in twist offs, would you stop buying it just because it was in a twist off?

My favorite commercial beer only comes in green bottles in the US, so I started the work on cloning it a long time ago. You know, BREWING beer.

 

[nukebrewer]

My favorite commercial beer only comes in green bottles, so I started the work on cloning it a long time ago. You know, BREWING beer.

Your favorite commercial beer is Heineken?

Seriously, though, you completely missed the point. I'm done here.

 

[phenry]

What about something in a corked 750? I'd sure love it if my significant other came home and surprised me with a bottle from Boulevard's Smokestack series.

 

[amandabab]

What about something in a corked 750? I'd sure love it if my significant other came home and surprised me with a bottle from Boulevard's Smokestack series.

Corkables always have a place in the rotation

 

[Knecht_Rupprecht]

What about something in a corked 750? I'd sure love it if my significant other came home and surprised me with a bottle from Boulevard's Smokestack series.

I'm pretty sure my wide won't bring home a corked bottle expecting it to be a capped bottle.

 

[Misplaced_Canuck]

"Stealth twist-off"? You're kidding right? I can tell a twist off cap half way across the room. The tell-tale signs of the threads give it away. Now if it was the SWMBO or the g/f that picked them up, that's a valid excuse.

Otherwise, shame on you!

Not the best pic, but an example of what to look for... You can see the thread through the cap metal. (Right and slightly lower of the "twist off" words)

MC

 

[amandabab]

when all breweries used big cap torquers like a turbofil, those marks were a dead givaway. Now a lot of small breweries are using cheaper equipment like a pneumatic Jetflow or crowner turret to press caps onto screw top bottles with no thread indents.

 

[Katahdin]

I have several cases of Shipyard pry-off bottles. They changed to twist-offs a few years ago. I wonder why?

 

[Justintoxicated]

I stick with 22oz bottles and don't worry about twist off.

then you have to worry about corks right? I mean usually you can tell, but allot of 22's seem to have corks.

 

[socalboomer]

they come in caps as well. . .

 

[Proboscidea]

In the bigger picture, twist-off caps make sense for a general beer-drinking population because you don't need any tools (or knowledge of special tricks) to drink the beer. Instant access for the masses.

I'm really surprised more breweries don't use twist-off caps. A matter of street cred, I guess.

Kind of like how a screw-capped bottle preserves wine as well as a corked bottle, but only the cheapest and/or renegade brands use screw-tops, because corks have some kind of magical value-added cachet.

 

[SilverZero]

In the bigger picture, twist-off caps make sense for a general beer-drinking population because you don't need any tools (or knowledge of special tricks) to drink the beer. Instant access for the masses.

I'm really surprised more breweries don't use twist-off caps. A matter of street cred, I guess.

Kind of like how a screw-capped bottle preserves wine as well as a corked bottle, but only the cheapest and/or renegade brands use screw-tops, because corks have some kind of magical value-added cachet.

It's my understanding that screw caps are better for wine than cork. Easier, more economical, more reliable, and you don't need to strip a 7-year-old tree. Also, no more "corked" wine. But, yeah, tradition dies hard, especially in the wine world where a $3 bottle could get a 97 just because the taster thought it was a $60 bottle.

 

[amandabab]

and you don't need to strip a 7-year-old tree.

9-12 years
but you can strip the same tree over and over again every 9-12 years.

 

[SilverZero]

9-12 years
but you can strip the same tree over and over again every 9-12 years.

Whatever, I was pretty close for having only heard the figure quoted once a couple of years ago.

 

[Misplaced_Canuck]

Open a screw-top wine bottle in front of your (hopefully-soon-to-be) SWMBO and watch her turn into a SWJDMATTC (She who just dumped my a$$ to the curb).

MC