Aluminium Beer Bottles - Soon To Reach Our Shores

[tangent]

I remember making a wall of them in Lan Qwai Fong. Heinekens back in 2004.

 

[Bribie G]

The original beer cans were derived from bottle shapes. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. B)

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[browndog]

Interesting idea, but not really new.
If memory serves me {and it usually does } the topic was on Grumpy`s Forum at least a couple of years ago.
God that was a great Beer Forum.........the bunfights, the tears and jeers and cheers, the blokes that were banned trying desperately to sneak back in under another name and getting shown the door again :lol: , it had a bit of everything.
Ah well......things change.
{sniff}

stagga.

Stagga, are you the same Stagga from the said forum that had a pallet of Haagen Gold that he was slowly going through?

cheers

Browndog

Sorry about the OT..

 

[mje1980]

The best vodka i ever tasted was in an aluminum bottle. Danska was its name, and i haven't been able to find it for ages. Had it once at russian xmas with my wife's family. Went down ridiculously smooth. Bottle was cool too.

 

[Sunshine_Brewer]

Jeez, if we took lessons from the German's(and others) we could use the glass bottles over and over. What a stupid world we live in sometimes, using glass bottles once...now we have to look forward to al. :angry:

 

[HoppingMad]

There you go. Didn't realise that Crown had aluminium bottles here already (gotta get on a plane or go to the golf more :huh: ).

Remember that some guys here were interested in buying these bottles wholesale for their home brews. I guess now all you have to do is collect a few crownies then. The screw cap feature would come in handy at bottling time I guess.

Hopper.

 

[boingk]

Jeez, if we took lessons from the German's(and others) we could use the glass bottles over and over. What a stupid world we live in sometimes, using glass bottles once...now we have to look forward to al. :angry:

My sentiments exactly. I mean, what fool thought it'd be better to remelt, remanufacture and redistribute bottles instead of just blasting them with steam and microwaves to sterilise and rocking on? WTF??? Come to think of it, Germany is a generally cool place. Good skiing, great food, excellent beer, and liberal public advertising laws (read as 'pornography everywhere').

Cheers - boingk

 

[PostModern]

I've got some Lithuanian 500ml beer bottles here and you can see quite clearly from the wear on the widest point of them that they've been thru the bottling plant more than once. Regardless of the brewery, the bottles are identical. Makes perfect sense to re-use rather than crush, grind, melt, recycle.

 

[kook]

I've got some Lithuanian 500ml beer bottles here and you can see quite clearly from the wear on the widest point of them that they've been thru the bottling plant more than once. Regardless of the brewery, the bottles are identical. Makes perfect sense to re-use rather than crush, grind, melt, recycle.

Westvleteren recycle their bottles - and even sometimes use recycled Westmalle bottles too! Westmalle bottles are embossed on the glass, so it looks kind of funny to see the glass with a Westvleteren cap on.

 

[LexP]

So what happens when one of these bad boys is overcarbonated? :lol:

 

[staggalee]

Stagga, are you the same Stagga from the said forum that had a pallet of Haagen Gold that he was slowly going through?

cheers

Browndog

Sorry about the OT..

Yes Browndog
And I wish it was still here :lol:
Nothing wrong with your memory........that was 3 years ago

stagga.

 

[Online Brewing Supplies]

I've got some Lithuanian 500ml beer bottles here and you can see quite clearly from the wear on the widest point of them that they've been thru the bottling plant more than once. Regardless of the brewery, the bottles are identical. Makes perfect sense to re-use rather than crush, grind, melt, recycle.

**** Im 50% Lithuanian and never found a beer from there, Whats it called ? must get some.
"Sveikas" Cheers in Lith
GB

 

[peas_and_corn]

OK, I will bite, how do you do this? Sounds bloody brilliant! I love my 3L Grolsch bottle but if i could use 2L Asahi cans i will be in heaven!

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It's easy to refill, and holds a lot of beer!

 

[Bribie G]

I agree, 2L is the perfect size

 

[Wasabi]

The HUGE advantage is for filling!

You can't double evacuate a can (it implodes) so the the oxygen left in the can from a simple CO2 flush can age the beer quickly. Not a big issue for the big boys as they spend the annual GDP of a small country in research that eliminates oxygen, but oxygen is a killer for the micro's.

So why use cans at all! They offer 100% resistance to light! Nothing worse than going to the local, ordering that green bottle from the top shelf, and stinking out the whole pub with polecat!

The aluminium bottles are much stronger than the cans and so they can be double evacuated to get rid of 99.9% of the oxygen. The other big advantage is that they work in a regular bottle filler, so you don't need to buy new equipment.

Micros...producing unoxidised beer...that isn't lightstruck...is cheaper for them to ship....sounds good to me!

Its about time we caught up over here.

Plus as mentioned, its much cheaper for the brewers, its much lighter to ship, it gives the marketers a massive surface with which to work and it chills faster than glass (though only marginally).

 

[svyturys]

"**** Im 50% Lithuanian and never found a beer from there, Whats it called ? must get some.
"Sveikas" Cheers in Lith
GB"

Kalnapilis, Utenos, Svyturys...the list goes on GB. (Just some of the breweries.) Over 200 different beers available, milkbars, bus stops, service stations, kiosks...gee they treat beer as soft drink over there.
Price for premium brands...$1.00 per 500ml stubbie at the milkbar.


Svyturys is available in Australia through an importer in Thomastown, Melbourne.

Sveiks and Iki.