Flat 12 introducing 8 oz cans!

This is awesome. I don't even know these guys, but I wish some of my locals would start doing this. 8 oz of a nice RIS is perfect.

 

Seems like just another way to charge more and give less.

 

Definitely a good idea. And back in the old days before having an open container in a car became really, really, illegal, these would have been good to wash down a sub on a road trip.

 

Okay, but is it really that difficult to finish 12 oz of a RIS? It's not like you have to worry about it getting hot and flat. Plus I hate canned beer.

 

might as well have gone to an 8oz can....I get about that much beer or less out of their 12oz bottles after the gushing stops.

 

so you don't like draft beer either then? keg=just a larger can

 

If only there were a way to drink less of a larger quantity of beer since you have to drive.......

I kid I kid.. I'm not super into the can, but can see the appeal.

 

The older I get, yes. Sometimes.

 

I imagine they can use a standard canning line for these as well.

 

This 8 oz. "stubby" style of beer can (w/same diameter as the standard 12 oz) was used by numerous brewers starting in the 1950s - Budweiser and Schlitz, among others, were both were available in them, and they were used for many of the best selling malt liquors of the era - Cold 45, Country Club, Schlitz Malt Liquor, Stite, etc, before that style became better known for being packaged in the 40 oz bottle.

Modern kegs and fermenters are made of stainless steel - beer cans are aluminum. Two very different metals.

Beer cans have a water-based polymer lining to prevent beer from coming into direct contact with the aluminum and causing off-flavors from the resulting chemical reaction. Modern cans when filled on a quality canning line can be excellent containers for beer, but not simply because they are made of "metal".

 

May I suggest this as their motto: 8oz cans...polluting the environment with 1/3 less bpa than a comparable 12oz cans.