Beer In Cans

So we agree the light exposure in the store (especially in such a bright lighted cooler!) is far from ideal. I agree in those instances cans are better. I think we can also agree that using the bland export beers of Heineken as the prime example of beer getting skunked in a bottle over time does not say everything about glass bottled beers

 

Nope, I've had skunked Saison Dupont, too. That also comes in a green bottle and is imported from Belgium.

 

Ideally you check how long it has been in that bottle and also compare it to a canned Saison Dupont (not sure they have them though)! Preferably a can that has been aqcuired about a month after bottling.

edit: getting canned I mean!

 

You wouldn't taste anything metallic. If you could notice a taste difference, it would likely be some of the things mentioned in Rat's video. differences in light exposure or air exposure.

The reason you couldn't taste anything metallic is the cans are lined with BPA, you would be tasting vinyl if anything.

Now BPA being in cans raises it's own concerns, but that's a separate issue. There is as understood by the medical community, a safe level of BPA, and the dangers of it are more cumulative and environmental rather than on a strictly dietary basis.

 

Heineken is a an artist of getting skunked.

IMO, if it's not skunked, I would say Heineken is an average beer rather than an awful beer. No magic to it, but if I got offered a free one, I wouldn't turn it down.

 

I was just gonna say, many people enjoy that skunky taste. Even saw a beer review for a Heineken one time. He talked about a skunky taste so I expected a bad score...nope he gave it an A.

 

Sounds like a load of bollocks to me

Why do we get milk in HDPE plastic but not beer


If the container changed the taste of the food you wouldnt be able to use it as a container

Glass, aluminium, HDPE .....bet you all just tastes the same, any difference is just in your head

 

Milk has a very short shelf life. If beer spoiled like milk does we would only drink it fresh. Not a year later in some cases

 

I've had 7 year old beer. It wasn't nice.

 

I will drink beer out of most any container in which it is offered.

 

Can or bottle irm?

 

Ok, this is going to gross out all the beer lovers. I buy a 30 pack of 12 oz. Keystone Light cans. I then pour it into a 16 ounce plastic to go cup they used to put your beer in at a bar I went to. Then top it off with water. Yum yum!!!!

 

That's not far from how my mom drinks beer Openminded. I don't judge her so I won't judge you. You are a 68 year old woman, right?

 

The 7 year old beer? It was a bottle. Now there is a funny story behind this. It was about 10 years ago and I was having Christmas at my cousins house and they are like distant cousins by marriage. Anyway we got offered drinks and at the time it was a VB throwdown bottle, so like 3 gulps and it was gone. And anyway next year the same beer. Then the next year the same beer. This uncle by marriage wasn't a drinker. I moved over seas but I usually went back to see my family at Christmas time and when we got together for lunch or dinner, that throwdown bottle of VB always made an appearance.

I wasn't shy to the grog store though, and something crossed my mind on that 7th year down the track. They don't even make VB in a throwdown anymore. So I looked at the date. Now that might seem odd that I'd never have done that, but seriously, who actually looks at the date on a beer? My guessing is I've got those beers to drink and they'll be drunk rather quickly. So never looking at dates. And I can't remember the date, early 2000s but I remember it was 7 years old. And it tasted yuck and it was like systematically every time I was there they got worse until one point I was like ok this really is terrible and then I show my partner sitting next to me lol.

Still unsure as to whether he actually knew this and got a laugh out of it himself or considering he did not drink, he just never knew and never had beer in the fridge and this was all he had and didn't know any better lol.

 

Well, if you want me to be.

 

Unless you stick around the site and I get to know you better...that's what you shall be.

 

Corn, beans and squash.

 

I do want to note that naming these breweries could make hard to get beers harder to find.

Canned beer is bad

 

I'm a big beer drinker these days. I don't know my stuff very well and usually get some of cheapest I can get at my usual store.

I was taught or figured sometime years ago that supposedly bottled beers were better than canned beers.

I can see how bottled cans could be harder and more fragile to transport.

-- I don't think a person can do a "shot-gun" from a glass bottle either! -- (Not that I've ever done that yet)