Byron Bay Brewery To Use Pet Again

[brettprevans]

From today's Age - link

 

[thelastspud]

Good for nightclubs and concerts i guess,
I used to live in spain and you could buy the one of the bigger brewers beer in 1 litre glass or 1 litre plastic bottles. The plastic was a few cents more expensive but i used to buy it because it was so much easier to lug home. great for camping and the like.

 

[MarkBastard]

Has anyone done any blind tests on taste differences when pouring into a glass?

 

[Wonderwoman]

my sister-in-law wrote this article and I did some "consulting" on it :lol: . I'm getting a freeby sample next weekend, so I'll let you know what I think.

 

[Renegade]

Personally I don't know why premium co's don't focus more on pushing cans. Environmentally, and cost wise it's a better option, and at the end of the day the important thing isn't the 'image' but the beer that's inside the vessel.

BRING BACK THE CAN ! (yes, I'm aware it never really left, but it's a good sounding chant)

 

[Count Vorlauf]

Personally I don't know why premium co's don't focus more on pushing cans. Environmentally, and cost wise it's a better option, and at the end of the day the important thing isn't the 'image' but the beer that's inside the vessel.

BRING BACK THE CAN ! (yes, I'm aware it never really left, but it's a good sounding chant)

We had a sample PET bottle sent to us last month from VISY. It had Southern Bay Brewery Bearings Draught in it.

Like you said, it's what's inside that counts. But the properties of the container also matter in terms of UV protection and oxidation. I can't imagine green plastic keeps out UV light any better than green glass does. Cans are perfect in this regard, but I'd question the environmental brownie points of aluminium given the insanely high energy costs of producing the stuff. Especially in Victoria where ALCOA locates its smelters based on political considerations, running energy across the state from our lovely brown coal burning power plants.

 

[Renegade]

Fair point, but once it enters the recycling stream, it takes less than 1/10th of the energy used to create a new can. Can the same be said for PET?

Good point about the skunking potential.

And I cant crush a PET bottle on my forehead.

EDIT: Do they even make new PET bottles out of old PET bottles? Or does the plastic go into other products ?

 

[drsmurto]

We had a sample PET bottle sent to us last month from VISY. It had Southern Bay Brewery Bearings Draught in it.

Like you said, it's what's inside that counts. But the properties of the container also matter in terms of UV protection and oxidation. I can't imagine green plastic keeps out UV light any better than green glass does. Cans are perfect in this regard, but I'd question the environmental brownie points of aluminium given the insanely high energy costs of producing the stuff. Especially in Victoria where ALCOA locates its smelters based on political considerations, running energy across the state from our lovely brown coal burning power plants.

Nanoparticle coatings for bottles aren't far away if they aren't already being utilised.

Effectively, sunscreen for bottles.

Will make the colour of a bottle irrelevant.

 

[MarkBastard]

Nanoparticle coatings for bottles aren't far away if they aren't already being utilised.

Effectively, sunscreen for bottles.

Will make the colour of a bottle irrelevant.

yeah but my pseudo hippy sister will no doubt forward me some tin-foil-hat email about it giving me cancer like she did with nano-particles in sunscreen :icon_offtopic:

 

[peas_and_corn]

I get all of my scientific news from chain email.

 

[peas_and_corn]

"Late last year with the spate of glassings I felt I needed to start developing an alternative to glass," he said.

Interesting. I thought most glassing incidents were people smashing the glass the beer was served in rather than the bottle.

I didn't notive a difference in flavour in plastic TED bottles, but it is TED.

 

[Adamt]

I'd rather drink a beer straight from a pet bottle rather than a can. Somethig about sucking on the can mouth just changes the flavour. The taste works with coke though!

If I were to pour it into a glass or cup... I couldn't give a rat's.

 

[Wonderwoman]

I'd rather drink a beer straight from a pet bottle rather than a can. Somethig about sucking on the can mouth just changes the flavour. The taste works with coke though!

If I were to pour it into a glass or cup... I couldn't give a rat's.

+1 I hate drinking beer from a can!

 

[thanme]

yeah but my pseudo hippy sister will no doubt forward me some tin-foil-hat email about it giving me cancer like she did with nano-particles in sunscreen :icon_offtopic:

:lol:

 

[HoppingMad]

Cans have their place. I never used to think so, until a mate of mine that crews a yacht occasionally said that's all they take on deck. You can roll a can down to a crew member without worrying it's going to hit something and smash. They lose the occasional one overboard an needless to say they don't win many races, but they seem to have a good time out there.

Hopper.

 

[Renegade]

I used to love cans back when I could drink regular Aussie beer. An ice-cold tinnie shot down fast on a summer's day. And when they released those wide-mouths... Brilliant !

 

[glaab]

me too, you can't shotgun a stubbie! bring back the 740ml cans they used to have VB and Fosters in but with something decent and I'll drink 'em

 

[///]

And the plastic lining of cans ends up somewhere when recycled??

Had it, PET also drops the weight a heap ...

 

[jlm]

And now if they could only put something drinkable in those bottles.
Still scarred from having one many moons ago.

 

[geoffi]

Considering that the bottle-smashing dickhead community overwhelmingly consumes megaswill, it would surely be sensible to at least bottle the V(ery)B(ad) and Phoohey's Spew of this world in PET.

Never heard of a riot caused by craftbeer-swilling hooligans.