Can or Bottle UK ?

Discussion in 'United Kingdom & Ireland' started by DJ-Hophead, May 26, 2017.

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  1. DJ-Hophead

    DJ-Hophead Initiate (0) May 28, 2015 England

    Thought I might throw this out into the Beer Ether within the UK Beer Advocates. Increasingly many breweries within the UK are putting out beers in a can and was wondering what other UK beer advocates think about this in relation to bottles ? I live in Bristol and my favourite brewery Moor put a lot of their beers into cans and having sampled a fair few at the tap house and within a can and haven't personally found any great difference, cask ales seem to produce a greater change. Can you put the vast amount of good beers into a can without a loss in quality ? Hop fronted beers such as Vocation Life and Death, Northern Monk New World IPA and a most if not all DIPA's seem outstanding in cans personally. Obviously there are a lot more issues beyond the quality of the ale in relation to bottles and cans.
     
    #1 DJ-Hophead, May 26, 2017
  2. gavinbrooksbank

    gavinbrooksbank Initiate (0) May 24, 2011 England

    cans are all good for me! only problem is theyre too small, 330ml of a beer under 6% just aint enough
     
    #2 gavinbrooksbank, May 27, 2017
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  3. CwrwAmByth

    CwrwAmByth Grand Pooh-Bah (3,113) Jan 24, 2011 England
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    Lots of 500 and 440ml cans around now. The problem is they mostly seem to carry higher strength beer.
     
    #3 CwrwAmByth, May 27, 2017
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  4. gavinbrooksbank

    gavinbrooksbank Initiate (0) May 24, 2011 England

    yeah its a funny one that, like with stone, their session ipa is in a 330 but arrogant bastard is in a 440, strange
     
    #4 gavinbrooksbank, May 27, 2017
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  5. CwrwAmByth

    CwrwAmByth Grand Pooh-Bah (3,113) Jan 24, 2011 England
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    Yeah and Magic Rock, Human and Unhuman Cannonball in 500ml but High Wire and Salty Kiss in 330ml.

    I think it often has something to do with the size of bottles and cans bars and shops want to stock. The big sellers are in 330ml as that's what's wanted. That's why Thornbridge said they changed to 330ml at least.
     
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  6. Hanglow

    Hanglow Pooh-Bah (2,051) Feb 18, 2012 Scotland
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    I still prefer bottles from most of the smaller brewers - the problem with canning lines is that a good one is very expensive compared to a good bottling line, so what with most british breweries being rather small outfits, I think you are more likely to get a better product bottled than canned. That's a generalisation of course, cans certainly have their merits when done properly
     
    #6 Hanglow, May 27, 2017
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  7. Hoppsbabo

    Hoppsbabo Pooh-Bah (2,053) Jan 29, 2012 England
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    Cans are too small. Then again bottles are going that way, hence why I boycott Thornbridge, the greedy fuckers.
     
    #7 Hoppsbabo, May 27, 2017
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  8. CwrwAmByth

    CwrwAmByth Grand Pooh-Bah (3,113) Jan 24, 2011 England
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    Just tucking into a 568ml bottle of Arbor Boomtown Brown. Proper sized bottle, proper brown beer.
     
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  9. DJ-Hophead

    DJ-Hophead Initiate (0) May 28, 2015 England

    Thanks for all of the interesting comments. I do like the Arbor pint bottles but happy to have a strong DIPA in a 330 ml can, as personally they are easier to drink and less expensive.
     
    #9 DJ-Hophead, May 28, 2017
  10. EmperorBevis

    EmperorBevis Grand High Pooh-Bah (9,338) Sep 25, 2011 England
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    Structurally could you have a 750ml+ can?
     
    #10 EmperorBevis, Oct 31, 2017
  11. Dave_S

    Dave_S Crusader (429) May 18, 2017 England

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  12. jazzyjeff13

    jazzyjeff13 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,865) Nov 6, 2010 England
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    I've seen 1 litre cans on sale with bier steins as a gift pack. Seems to be a German thing - not sure if you can just get the can....

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    #12 jazzyjeff13, Oct 31, 2017
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