Beer: Bottles or cans?

[markd]

I prefer bottles.

 

[captorquewrench]

Bottles.

I used to be a bartender, and I've cleaned tap lines. so...I don't do draft except if that's all there is.

Cans when bottles are prohibited.

Regardless of keg, bottle, can, or any other method of delivery...There are truly only four kinds of beer:
Mine, free, cold, or open.

 

[John Eilertson]

One would hope those "pretty poofs" are only on YOUR property.

 

[Bullman]

I have heard that cans are better for the beer, since they don't allow any UV light to affect the beer causing spoilage. I still prefer mine in a bottle anyway.

 

[captorquewrench]

As long as the bottles are amber or green the UV is filtered. And the amber ones are better. This is why Corona and some others have that skunky smell-it's the UV breaking down your beer. The lime is to cover that taste and smell.

Can technology is better since they have better linings than they used to, and the plastic bottles are a special process on the plastic too...

BUT, I still prefer a brown beer in a brown bottle!

 

[Shooting4life]

All the beer I like come in bottles. If it came in cans I would buy it that way for events/camping. Just easier to transport the empties.

 

[jack the toad]

Some of the pros & cons of bottle v can: Bottles make better reactive targets for the g-kids, while cans are worth more when recycled.

 

[redsfan2]

Amber Bock in a bottle chilled in ice. Just don't like warm beer.

 

[Pondhill]

I like bottles

 

[rcnixon]

Cans, those really big ones that reside in the cellar near a gas bottle.

Russ

 

[gjamison]

3rd spot in the poll should read.

Does it really matter.........

 

[DCWilson]

I look at this prospectively rather than retrospectively. When I have a beer, the only container I want it in is me.

The preference is Guinness on tap when I can get to the mayor's pub. If I'm not in the pub, Guinness from whatever source. Even unit doses from a crate stored at room temp.

Cold in drinks is much overrated; I like to taste the stuff, and the nerve endings don't work well below 40 degrees.

 

[Fishslayer]

I love cans.

...but beer should be in bottles.

 

[OK Hog Shooter]

Microbrew ales, porters and stouts in bottles. mm mm good!

 

[markush]

Bottles are prefered cans are acceptable....never will a plastic bottle of beer touch my lips!

 

[tjtoolbox]

Google "aluminum poisoning". I don'y buy anything in aluminum if I can avoid it.
The toxicity of aluminum is much debated, but I personally believe it to be very toxic. Most of my young years were spent working with electricians. Scratches to the skin from aluminum wire behaved quite differently from scratches caused by copper wire. They acted very much like they were infected when they weren't.

So, my answer is glass.

In my era Beer was in tin cans with pop tops, steel is much more abusive than aluminum. I would rather aluminum than the old tin cans, bottles are better. Nothing like a beer in a glass container.

 

[Oddball]

Most definitely bottles and the colder the better.

 

[NFrameFred]

Germans I knew drank their beer warm. But then, the Germans have a thing for funny hats, too . . .