Barrel Aged Beer in Cans?

I favor every beer in a bottle, style makes no difference.

 

Cool! My family is going down to Sedona for a week. Was trying to find some good bottle shops near by.

 

I really only care about the container in terms of who is drinking it. If its just me, then odds are Im drinking it at home, so I'd prefer bottle. If Im sharing, then I'd prefer can because its easier to transport.

 

I just figured that if you can limit oxygen exposure, you'd want to. I mean, there's no packaging method that can totally eliminate it, but if cans consistently had less D.O. than bottles, would you consider aging/cellaring in cans?

 

I'm not ready for BA stouts in cans. Revolution Brewing is switching to cans this year and something about it rubs me the wrong way. I like my IPAs in cans.

 

Bottles for me like cavedave and for the reason drtth brought forth.

 

The option of "Whichever one is best for the quality of the beer is what I want" might be skewing your results. It's a little ambiguous.

 

I would like to see more BA beer in cans, especially if it means the price point goes down a little in the process. Waxing, big bottles, and C&Cs are visually appealing and help signal the beer is special, but I'm past the point of needing those signals. If I'm willing to order a BA beer on draft and not get any of those "features," I'm also happy to do without them at home and forego their extra cost. Even if the price does end up being the same (brewery just makes extra margin without the additional costs), the size, shape, and stackability is advantageous in my closet cellar.

 

FWIW, most bottle caps also have a BPA lining. Not as much surface contact as a can, but it definitely will touch the product plenty. If you don’t want any BPA in your beer your choices are draft and draft (growler caps also have BPA linings).

 

Yeah, I know. That's why I choose bottles.

 

I enjoyed the Breckinridge BA stout, I haven't had anything else by you though.

 

Their barrel-aged beers sound really good. I wonder if I'll be able to find any.

 

Cans so I don't scrape my knuckle on the side of the cap if I put it in a six pack.

 

I have some cans in my cellar, honestly I have had a huge problem with oxidation in any beer I've cellared. My preference for bottles isn't that huge of a preference, I just feel that cans slow the aging a little more than I'd like in certain styles, stouts and barleywines.

 

I'm not sure, I had mine given to me. I've never even been to Arizona.

 

So that you consume less BPA?

 

When considering the cellaring of barrel-aged beers, bottles are more pretty with dust on them than what cans would be. Okay, just kidding.

I voted bottles for many of the same reasons above, but also because most BBA beers have sediment, and I prefer decanting off that stuff by pouring gently from the bottle. When I try to pour gently from a can (assuming some sediment is in there) it always seems to be more difficult to not disturb the beer because of the initial 'glubbing.' And if I pour too slowly/gently to avoid the 'glubbing' the beer always seems to dribble down the side of the can until I can get it pouring smoothly at a more horizontal angle.

 

Bottled beers just taste better. And yes, less BPA!