Simple question: bottles or cans?

I like that a lot more stuff is going into cans and for most beers I would say I prefer cans, but I do prefer bottles for big styles that age well, saisons and sours.

 

"has been threaded before. If so sorry BA."

This has been discussed more times than I can count.

The 'winner" is cans since:

• There is zero air (oxygen) ingress post packaging
• There is zero light ingress
• The packaged beer is lighter in weight vs. bottled beer so transportation saves fossil fuels on a per case basis.

Cheers!

 

But, but , but... a certain on-line "expert" says the lining will kill you!

 

I'll take a bottle over a can every time.

 

We do a lot of trailer camping. Cans are vastly superior. You know all the reasons: more compact, unbreakable, cools faster, every campground recycling stations take cans, etc. We do drink from (polycarbonate) glassware, though. Now, WINE in cans is a rather different story.

 

ZERO O2 ingress in cans? are you sure? I know cans are double seemed vs bottles single seeming, but I haven't heard that they are completely oxygen proof. Any data?

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=t...PBRMQ6AEISjAL#v=onepage&q=double seam&f=false

 

Cans by far.

 

Growing up, the general wisdom was that bottled beer (macro) tasted better than canned. Any truth behind it may have been the early days of un-coated cans. I can't detect any difference so if I have a choice, I'll take cans due to being more compact, stackable, more difficult to break, lighter, more recyclable, etc. Almost none of the beers I like are available in cans though.

 

I'd trust canning more than a crimped cap. But the light part seals it for me.

 

Well, cans are lighter. This is big if you carry them where cars don't go. I buy bottles of Samuel Smith. Damn, I would buy bottles of Young's Oatmeal Stout before I would buy cans of Young's Chocolate Stout in cans. But I cannot!

 

Cans let more O2 in during the filling process though with the larger mouth vs bottles.

How about that. .

 

Would like to get my hands (and lips) on some Rum BA Fidy stovepipe cans!!! Hopefully they can get some into distribution at some point.

 

CANS.....

 

I don't think I could count on fingers and toes (possibly your fingers and toes too) how many times this thread has been resurrected... but it's an interesting question I suppose

Cans have a ton of advantages over bottles but there is something great about "popping a top" on a bottle.

A lot of breweries local to me have started canning, so I think i'm slowly shifting in my opinion. It's weird to think about, but I think beer in cans almost tastes "fresher".

 

Simple answers: cans.

 

It's all about that TPO, and canning lines can match bottling lines.