Springs Branch
Established Member
There seems to be a push by some brewers to migrate their beers from bottles into cans.
The recent proliferation of cans first came about via craft & microbreweries - these operations generally don't have the production volume to make bottling in glass economic, whereas affordable small scale can-filling equipment is available.
But now bigger breweries seem to have latched onto a greater respectability for tinned beer - not such strong connotations of Fosters Lager & Carlsberg Special Brew any more). Their marketing departments have been working overtime to explain to us why cans are so much better than bottles - no light strike, easier to carry etc - when I'm sure the motivation is really cheaper manufacturing, warehousing and transport of established products.
What do you think?
How much of this is truth & how much spin?
Is beer from a can just as good as (or better than) the same brew from a bottle?
The recent proliferation of cans first came about via craft & microbreweries - these operations generally don't have the production volume to make bottling in glass economic, whereas affordable small scale can-filling equipment is available.
But now bigger breweries seem to have latched onto a greater respectability for tinned beer - not such strong connotations of Fosters Lager & Carlsberg Special Brew any more). Their marketing departments have been working overtime to explain to us why cans are so much better than bottles - no light strike, easier to carry etc - when I'm sure the motivation is really cheaper manufacturing, warehousing and transport of established products.
What do you think?
How much of this is truth & how much spin?
Is beer from a can just as good as (or better than) the same brew from a bottle?