Poll: Bottle or Can?

For visual appeal I much prefer bottles, but that's just cosmetics. For practical reasons a can is much better.

 

I hate canned beer. I can also tastes the tin even if poured into a glass.

 

It's gonna go into some sort of glassware for me anyway...

 

You can drop a can and it not explode as often. It never leaves as bad of a mess.

 

Love seeing a pair of cans at the beach....terrible

 

Definitely Mary Ann.

 

I prefer cans, for a couple reasons I guess. First and foremost... trash/recycling is lighter and quieter, secondly, you don't need a bottle opener or a glass (for me when I open a bottle I feel compelled to pour it into a glass for whatever reason). When you drink cans you can set em up and shoot em with a BBgun and it stays in one piece. You can crush them on your head. you can turn the tab around or snap it off so you know that it is your beer amongst many. you can drink a certain amount and balance it on the bottom lip thing. you can fit more in a cooler. they don't clank around in a backpack or shopping bag (transportation in general). you can drop it and pick it back up and still walk around in bare feet. you can bring em to the beach. you can toss one to someone who is more than 7 feet away from you. if you do it just right, you can stand onto of an empty can without it crushing. you can make propeller planes out of a bunch of empties. I mean the list goes on people........

 

Can. Big fan of cans. All shapes and sizes.

 

Voted for can because it reduces the amount of waste in my recycle bin.

 

Bottles 9 out of 10 times but it always ends up in a glass.

 

Cans are more portable, lighter in weight, easier to carry, makes the trash or recycle can pretty light, friendly at the parks or the beach, and most importantly, no light gets to the beer. Seems like a no brainer. It is for me. Cans, final answer.

 

Spot-on.

One thing that's been annoying me about bottles lately is that the labels have been getting warped from the bottle sweat and in one case the label actually ended up falling completely off the bottle.

I remember an interview that The Beerists podcast did with a couple of guys from Sixpoint. When asked why they chose cans over bottles, they named all the advantages and summed it up by saying that anyone who prefers bottles, prefers bottles for emotional reasons only because cans win in all aspects that have to do with the actual taste of the beer.

 

Cans will always win, because Breweries make more money that way.

 

i voted cans, but honestly it doesn't make a difference to me one way or another. i'm not going to not buy a beer because it's in a bottle and it's not going to sway my purchasing power either (i'm not going to buy Oskar Blues or 21st Amendment over, say Lagunitas because they don't can their beer). but i will buy cans if i have both options made available to me- i'll buy Grapefruit Sculpin or Easy Jack cans over bottles if I was already planning on buying those beers. i will say i don't particularly care for SN canning Torpedo and Pale Ale in 4-packs instead of 6-packs. i'd rather have more cans of beer than more beer per can

i've slowly started to add cans to the cold boxes at work and people are catching on. there's lot of little reasons why cans are better (imo)- better protection from light, quicker to chill, lighter to travel / distribute, easier to recycle (and you get more money), can take it on trails and the beach…

 

first, your username is 'spot-on'

also, i hate how the cardboard carriers for bottles get super soft and flimsy when they're in a cold box. i'm always struggling with them at work. i've really come to appreciate the side-handle can carrier rings Oskar Blues uses and those fancy one's i've been seeing on around. I know Anderson Valley uses them…

 

Cans, for all the obvious reasons.

 

its all about the can. No light penetration and you can bring cans everywhere.

 

99 cans of beer on the wall just doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

Bottles are sexy.

 

Having just shipped out my first trade, i must say cans are far more supreme. I have a lot of anxiety about those glass bomber shattering somehow, so I tried to cushion the blow with a few cans in with my extras. Plus they weigh less which costs less. In the end, how many people drink their beer from the bottle/can anyway. We all have that favorite beer glass we come home to/wake up to...

 

I've done a 180 on this in the past few years or so. I used to really enjoy bottles so I could de-label them and keep the labels (some sort of project) and bottles (homebrewing stockpile) but I am now sitting on the better half of 10 cases of empty short and long necks bottles plus countless 22's. I doubt I am ever going to brew enough to need half of that. Now that I am setting my bottles aside for recycling and it takes up a ton of room. The can is much easier to deal with. Rinse it out, smash it and put it in a what will become, for lighter bag to drag to recycling bin. Cans also store in the fridge far easier and others have mentioned - make for a far less stressful shipping event.