How long will the craft canned beer stigma last?

Still prefer bottles but cans are ok with me.

Enjoy

 

Must be a michigan thing. Nobody i consort with still believes that.

 

I will continue to boycot HT until it come in a clear bottle.

Honestly, I hear very little complaints about cans. Seems most people get it.

 

I do not see the stigma. I only see people clamoring for cans. I'm with them (in the warmer months). They cool down quicker, protect the beer, and are handy as fuck and easy to sneak around with.

Long live this trend

 

I'm all for canning especially if it's a beer that's good for outdoor summer drinking. Love me the session IPA's in cans.

 

I prefer cans when traveling or tailgating. They weigh less and are easier to dispose.

 

I like the choice: cans for the cooler, tailgating, etc. and bottles for everywhere else. I DO taste the metallic of the cans, when I drink directly from the can (and why would you buy cans if you were not going to drink directly from it?), but it is a lot better than it used to be. So, for me, it is not a "stigma" (i.e. a social disgrace), but a minor reality.

Around here, Summit has just started selling 2 or 3 of their most popular beers in cans (but they still also bottle them). Choice is good. Meanwhile Surly only sells in pint cans, and that I find unfortunate.

 

Nothing wrong with cans! Hope more breweries choose to can their year round selections and are able to ship cheaper and further, allowing more people to enjoy them!

 

To the OP: Old wives' tales/myths/whatever you want to call them die hard. [But not like the movies]. Just like people will stick to their macro lager, brand of ketchup or coffee preference. There's a mental block, not necessarily in trying something new, but in recognizing that something new may not be exactly the same as you like or expect or someone may have a preconceived notion that keeps their opinion from being subjective. So, when people who think that cans influence the taste of beer, when they try a beer that they see or know comes from a can, prior ideas affect their judgment. If you want to see if a can hater can tell the difference, do a blind test.

 

Get off Facebook. Problem solved.

 

As I pour 90% of the beers I drink into a glass, it really doesn't matter. However, I do love the lighter/summer beers in cans. Just seems so right to sit in my patio chair with a cold can after working in the yard for a couple of hours in the Texas heat.

Also, for the sake of storage/taking home from the store, I'm finding myself leaning more and more to cans. Dropped a sixer of bottles last week getting them out of the truck. Lost 4. Cans I think they all might have survived.

 

I have heard one complaint, and that was from a brewer that now cans. All beer should be canned, every one. I love it

 

Cans in certain markets perform better than others, which leads to some breweries selling more bottled beer in those areas (in my territory, I'd reference Ballast Point). I will say that producing and shipping cans is much more cost effective, leading to higher profits for the brewery and wholesalers, which in turn typically leads to a more diverse amount of said brewery's beers on the shelf at your favorite bottle shop. With more money comes more innovation, and with innovation comes, for better or worse, more and more offerings, some of which wouldn't be available without the additional profits from can sales. So I guess the moral of the story is drinking canned beer not only benefits the environment, but the craft beer movement in whole.

 

I totally agree,

These are even better now that the summer action movies are premiering!! I suggest getting a four pack of torpedos the next time you go to the movies, place the cans in the freezer for an hour, sneak 2, 3, or all 4 of these around your waist along with some snacks and enjoy two awesome hours of fun!!

 

As long as bmc is around people will associate shitty beer with cans. Natty ice (etc)=shit=cans=all cans beers sucks.
I wanted to trade for some jai alai with someone just getting into craft and when I said it came in cans the response I got was "but all good beers come in bottles". Not much to say besides "trust me just try the damn beer" to get rid of the stigma.

 

Either way I pour it into a glass so what's the difference?

 

While there are rarely issues with larger breweries canning (Bells, New Belgium, etc.) there are legitimate QC issues at lots of smaller places dialing their systems in and especially those using mobile canning operations.

 

I didn't like them at first, I guess because of the Blatz/Red White and Blue/Old Style stigma of years gone by with my Dad drinking that rotgut stuff out of cans. But then I read articles about the "science" behind using them. Same with screw caps for wine (I'm a wine guy too). They are actually BETTER than corks, hands down.
I'm not sure cans are better, but they aren't worse.
One think I think is funny about cans, is the manufacturer rec's on them.
Surly-> beer in a can made for a glass
Heady Topper-> beer in a can to be drunk from a can
That to me is odd...

 

hear hear! my favorite brewery, @Pipeworks, has stated in the past they are researching a canning line, but are still bomber only (and on draft in the city). A larger portion of my beer budget is now going to Bell's TH in cans, so I've become more choosy in the PWs I pick up. Cans are more convenient, better for the beer and better for the environment.