Deschutes...Lend us your Cans!

This means put the beer in cardboard boxes, like milk cartons.

 

Welcome To The BeerPouch

 

Fresh Squeezed sounds appropriate for this!

 

My buddy texted me the news about Black Metal in cans... I guess he didn't look at his calender.

 

Deschutes...lend us your CT distribution.

 

I want more lambic in bags.

 

Have you factored weight/mass into your assessment? As someone who never travels without beer in his luggage, I can tell you that glass adds a significant amount of weight over aluminum. Scale that up to a truckload, and there's no question that shipping glass has a higher carbon footprint than shipping cans. Likewise, the additional mass requires more cooling.

Does this add up to something that offsets the disadvantages of cans? I don't know. I certainly welcome more in-depth analysis.

 

Big ass 32 ozers.

 

Saw that too. Would be nice though..

 

I've got a fever and the only prescription is more canned Craft Beer.

 

I'd drink 6 tallboys of the Abyss.

 

Haha that was a good one.
But they talked about canning back in their infancy, before they swtiched gears to sours

 

It's not really conclusive to which is more green overall yet. For now it is probably best to have a mix of cans and bottles, which is what we are starting to see.
http://www.opb.org/news/blog/ecotrope/the-greener-beer-bottles-v-cans/

 

Hopefully some things have changed since 2011
http://www.craftcans.com/an-open-letter-to-stone-brewing

 

Odell, Deschutes, Lagunitas, and Stone are the big/favorite breweries that aren't canning yet that come to my mind. Great Laks, too.

 

Stouts in cans are a little unusual, but I think Ten Fidy is a good indication it works.

 

Stone, Dogfish, Lagunitas, Deschutes.... I'd love to see cans of so many beers and breweries.. From a marketing standpoint, imagine the spike in sales of 60 minute or stone IPA or lagunitas IPA or fresh squeezed if they started canning them. I haven't bought any of those beers in a while, but its summer and I would buy them tomorrow if they were canned.

 

Glass is produced from easy to find, cheap to purchase, and usually close to producer locations of raw materials. Most glass in recycling bins is used locally as clean fill, and aluminum goes through more distant transport, so it is more a case of comparing the exorbitant cost of finding, extracting, transporting raw materials for aluminum, and the ecologically bad and expensive process of turning bauxite into aluminum oxide and then aluminum, versus the cost ecologically of making new glass. Add to this that the figure of 68% given for recycled aluminum in cans is a red herring, for cans cannot be looked at alone. The average for all aluminum is 30% recycled aluminum, and the number of cans used for beverages going up can only make the overall amount of new aluminum needed by industry go up too. Then there is the long term cost, which is static for glass (which uses sand to make), but bauxute/aluminum will just become harder to find, more costly to extract, and more ecologically damaging to process as time goes on. These changes will be made even worse and occur even more quickly as more aluminum is used in beverage containers. Glass wins by far when looked at fairly.

 

Just waiting for speedway stout in a can.

 

I get that glass is a better option for the breweries financially, but I would pay a touch more for cans.

Having said that, I want my Belgians (sours!) in 750ml.