can beer is "flatter" than the same in bottle

Well, think about the shape and design of each vessel. pours from a can are more turbulant...

 

I disagree. No empirical evidence or anything, I just know I've had plenty of great beers from cans with nice fluffy heads, good retention and lacing, great carbonation, great aroma, great flavor, great mouthfeel.... In fact, I'm about to go open another one.

Maybe the problem is with your pour? I pour pretty aggressively myself, never been afraid of a little foam.

 

your loss.

 

It's an interesting observation. I think to make it more accurate you'd have to get cans and bottles with similar dates, and get as big of a selection as possible. Then you'd have to do a blind taste test, with as many people as you could find.

 

If you're pouring the can 'straight-on' into the glass, try pouring it sideways out of the can so that you get a lot less of the "glug glug" effect that typically flattens a poured can beer. As a bartender i have found this to create a better experience for those that typically hate canned beers.

 

I respectfully disagree. I find cans to contain freshness, moreso than bottles. But that is only my fukkin opinion, of course.

 

well a lot of scotch ales have a low carbonation rate and typically have a slightly flat taste...IMO.

 

Science would probably be better at answering this than insults.

 

You can feel the way you feel about beer out of a can vs. a bottle, but the evidence suggests that what you're perceiving doesn't make much sense, given that cans provide less opportunity for air seepage than a bottle does.

I mean, I could say that it looks like the Sun revolves around the Earth, based on my observation, but all the empirical evidence suggests that isn't correct.

 

Maybe they are all "can conditioned" meaning carbonated in the can - the same way a cask is, and personally I always find cask beer and bottle conditioned beers to be a little less carbonated "feeling" than other forced carbonation beers. Idk...maybe

 

I will agree with the OP that I prefer SNPA bottle taste to the can taste. But I prefer lugging cans and especially empty cans in my cooler compared to bottles, since each can or bottle in MI is worth 10 cents.
Have you tried Rochester Mills IPA out of a can? Good taste and mouth feel IMO.

 

OP, here's how it's done Cheers!

 

Loved that beer on tap when I visted Bend. Wish we got cans of that in CA.

 

I just picked this up today, so maybe you will. I also saw 6-packs of Descender @ Whole Foods.

 

Well, I've previously posted on a number of reasons why ostensibly the same beer may taste different in a can and in a bottle. The major consideration for me is that bottles and cans likely don't come from the same batch and, worse, may be made at different breweries. My stand-by example has been Cisco, which bottles in MA, but cans in NY. And canned Grey Lady IMO is very different from bottled Grey Lady. Yesterday also tried canned SNPA and it tasted nothing like the bottled SNPA I had last week. The can was actually fresher, but it tasted less in nearly all aspects--less malt, less hops, less body. Haven't checked if bottled and canned SNPA distributed in MA is made at the same plant or not, but there may be other reasons for differences. Cans and bottles are filled to different levels (leaving different amount of "air pocket"), but that should normally make cans more carbonated, not less, unless they are overfilled. If additional carbonation is injected into cans, it would change acidity of the beer (slightly, but noticeably). Chatting with a Cisco rep I asked if there was a reason for the cans and bottles to be different and he said, absolutely! The recipe may well be the same, but since they are made at different plants, the controls are different, the source materials--particularly water--are different. So the execution is different. But he actually specifically said that they had some problems keeping the brew consistent because canning requires a much larger batch, which means that brewing conditions and times are very different. So, yeah, even brewers think that bottles and cans can be different. It doesn't mean that they are always different and "different" can mean that sometimes cans are better. But don't dismiss the claim of difference out of hand because it really might be true.

Having said all that, I suspect the OP generalized declaration to be bogus. There is really no foundation behind this statement and no evidence presented. It's a simple blanket declaration that appears to be counterfactual. Try again...

 

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^^ That. But, to the OP, you're missing the point of canned craft. It may be a little "canny", it may be slightly flatter (from the glug-glug out of the can... unless it's got those cool vents!), BUT IT'S GOOD, COLD, CRAFT FROM A CAN. you can say "hey Daryl, wing me a can of Torpedo!" at the beach or ballgame, instead of "Daryl, would you grab the bottle opener and please daintily pour me a Torpedo in my Spiegelau, and walk it over to me? thanks."

Enjoy the can, for being a can.

 

Whatever, Heady Topper comes in a can.

 

Do a blind tasting.