Wax or no Wax?

Discussion in 'Beer Talk' started by MutuelsMark, Mar 1, 2026.

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Wax or No wax?

  1. Yes

    22 vote(s)
    25.9%
  2. No

    63 vote(s)
    74.1%
  1. hardy008

    hardy008 Pooh-Bah (2,506) Jan 12, 2008 Minnesota
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    This is too easy. No wax. It adds unnecessary costs to the beer and no benefit at all to the consumer.
     
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  2. TheIPAHunter

    TheIPAHunter Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,026) Aug 12, 2007 California
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    I always sounded better on wax. The dat tapes I recorded in my bedroom were just a reference point.

    Hunter, we're talking about beer. My bad. Just make it easy to drink. We want the finished product!
     
  3. MutuelsMark

    MutuelsMark Grand Pooh-Bah (5,787) Jan 23, 2015 Kentucky
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    Need to see those cans.....
     
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  4. bbtkd

    bbtkd Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,790) Sep 20, 2015 South Dakota
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    I've seen a picture of bottles on here with so many layers of 'waxtic' that they look like sex toys, apparently intentionally.
     
  5. MutuelsMark

    MutuelsMark Grand Pooh-Bah (5,787) Jan 23, 2015 Kentucky
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    Uhhhh, I would pass that beer up without thinking twice.
     
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  6. bbtkd

    bbtkd Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,790) Sep 20, 2015 South Dakota
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    Me too. It would be really tough to get off.

    I bet they didn't actually do that to very many since it would add a lot of cost. Maybe they just did a couple. Wish I knew what thread that was in, but it was in the last few months. LMAO
     
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  7. Premo88

    Premo88 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,682) Jun 6, 2010 Texas
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    No wax.

    In fact, that goes double for beer. It's bad enough when they put that crap on one of my whisk[e]y bottles, but a beer? Save the money and put it toward your employees' 401Ks or Xmas bonuses.
     
  8. stevoj

    stevoj Grand High Pooh-Bah (8,248) Nov 22, 2011 Idaho
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    Trying to find somewhere to upload them
     
  9. LeinenkugelDrinker

    LeinenkugelDrinker Pooh-Bah (2,211) Feb 14, 2023 Nevada
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  10. stevoj

    stevoj Grand High Pooh-Bah (8,248) Nov 22, 2011 Idaho
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    False Idol Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
     
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  11. stevoj

    stevoj Grand High Pooh-Bah (8,248) Nov 22, 2011 Idaho
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  12. MrOH

    MrOH Grand Pooh-Bah (3,995) Jul 5, 2010 Virginia
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    No shade to you but as stupid as I thought.
     
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  13. bbtkd

    bbtkd Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,790) Sep 20, 2015 South Dakota
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    Yeah, they should have used brighter waxtic and put the label on upside down.
     
  14. ColonelFrobin

    ColonelFrobin Aspirant (222) Jan 31, 2010 Mississippi

    It depends. I love pull tab wax such as seen on Side Project beers. I think it is nice to have on beers made for extended aging as an extra line of defense against oxygen. It does nothing for me to add percieved prestige though.
     
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  15. Oktoberfest

    Oktoberfest Maven (1,452) Mar 28, 2005 Ohio
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    I'm 103 years old and I don't trust myself with a dull Swiss army knife or a rusty hacksaw or one of those pizza cutters that looks like a Klingon bat'leth, any one of which I'm likely to reach for in the dark of the night after I've waded through the flotilla of craft brews that were supposed to last me all weekend but here we are and it's still Friday night and I'm down to this one bottle that was kind of a last minute pickup and okay maybe I didn't look too closely because it's an imperial stout with cinnamon, chamomile, and squirrel (?) matured in bronze age Greek amphora recovered from the bottom of the Mediterranean and that some jerk dipped in wax instead of any of the current methods of beer bottle closure that work JUST FINE here in 2026.
     
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