Heineken better from a can?

I'd agree, those green bottles can be dangerous.

 

No light can get in and skunk the beer if it's in a can.
Cans are great

 

Green bottles are dumb as fuck. It has nothing to do with Heineken itself. Anything, especially an import, in green or clear bottles is likely going to be worse off than it's canned counterparts.

 

Green bottles are literally satan

That being said, it doesn't matter if they were in cardboard, and not exposed to UV for even a few minutes.

I regularly buy Hofbrau Munchen products in the 12 pack that aren't exposed to light.

 

Same issue. It lets far too much UV in.

Go brown, or make sure if never saw any light.

 

Heineken taste great all the time even in those shitty green bottles.

 

I have only bought it in the can for years now. The green bottles are not worth the risk. And yes, Heineken is a very good beer.

 

For me, i dislike Heineken in all forms. I can drink it if offered but otherwise i can't come to do it. Im a Becks guy and i can tell the difference blindfolded ive done it before.

 

I would have it in cans or bottles.

 

Tastes even better from a pint can than a 12oz. Mostly because its 4oz more beer. No scientific basis

 

Being canned avoids that the Hops get light struck, which is a common off aroma/flavour in Beers bottled in non brown/Black bottles.
Its still the same Heineken

 

Yeah I would go with the can.

 

I used to love those keg shaped cans they had.

 

Heineken is packaged in a green bottle because the marketing people think that makes the beer look classier. It also makes it skunky. AI have a good friend who swears by Heineken in the bottle, buys it all the time, and is more than generous in sharing. More often than not the bottled Heineken I have had is light struck. My friend thinks that is how it is supposed to taste. The canned stuff is much better although if I am buying, I would buy something else.

 

Among the first wine iconoclasts to champion screw caps and yes, I'll choose beer in a can over bottle, everything else being equal.

 

I very rarely drink Heineken anymore, but when I do I also prefer it out of the can, as there's less Of a chance of it being skunked in a can than there is when it is in those green glass bottles.

 

I know I'm in the minority on this one, but I don't mind a skunky Heineken from time to time. Personally, though, I only drink it, can or bottle, if I'm offered one from my old man. I haven't purchased one since I was underage.

 

Stay thirsty

 

heineken tastes skunked. A month or two in god knows what conditions before it hits the shelves in green bottles? Follow the lead of the Pilsner urquel and brown out the bottles. Your customers will be glad you did.

 

complete different beer out of a can. 1000% better IMO

 

I drink bottles in the Caribbean and it's way better. I've never looked into the veracity, but people say the the formula is different in the States for some reason. Again, no guarantee, but it tastes good in the Dutch Islands.

 

To me, a lot of beer that is imported from Europe tastes better in cans. The obvious correlation is that bottles allow light (in varying amounts depending on glass type/colour) and are not 100% safe from oxidation (although cap technology is improving).

I personally would choose a bottle over a can 95% of the time purely for the aesthetic and feel but if a can offers a better flavour, it's really a no brainer.

 

I've never tried a Heineken...

 

Clear bottles are somehow worse than green bottles..
It annoys the hell out of me that these days, Reissdorf and Gaffel put their Kölsch for six packs in CLEAN BOTTLES;although normally they use brown ones for the crates.So why, whyy? In those cases I prefer a can as well..

 

Heineken tastes just as bad in a can - can confirm

 

One of the advantages of living in PA is that I've never had a skunked Heineken (unless I deliberately exposed it to light so as to see what skunking is really like rather than just imagining based on 2nd or 3rd hand information). Whether the beer is in bottle or can or keg there's little or no difference in flavor since the bottles are stored in a case that protects them from ling and the rest don't get skunked. So freshness is the only issue for me. Outside of freshness changes any difference between container is in my imagination.

 

Cans are heavily underrated. It keeps the beer fresh in an oxygen free environment, keeps it pressurized, and, most importantly, keeps the light out. I will happily drink out of a can.

That said, I bought one of the mini-kegs for a drinking session and while it wasn't much better, it definitely wasn't skunked like every other Heineken from a bottle I'd ever had.