Aluminum beer bottles

[Doogy]

Hi all

I was just Googling and came across an artical about Alcoa making an aluminum beer bottle. I am interested to hear your thoughts on wether this will take off or not?


http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/news/news_detail.asp?pageID=20040824005439&newsYear=2004

Doogy

[rain]

Doubt it Mate. Chilling may be a sales claim, but cans stack better, glassed beer (I reckon) tastes better.
Maybe glass is becoming too costly - so, produce aluminium 'bottles', sell at the same price but save on production.
I also reckon transport damage will be greater.
Mind you, this is all guessing on my part.

[Doogy]

Rain
I agree with you , I can't see them replacing glass in to much of a hurry. however I rekon the chilling time would be almost halved.

[grabman]

what next aluminium cricket bats???

Denis Lillee will be impressed

[beermeister]

I recall VB came out in a 750 ml can for a limited release years ago. Incidentally, they now sell slabs in 800ml bottles.

I think one of the board members is a Japan resident? When I went on holiday there I saw beer cans ranging in size from around 100ml to 1000ml.

Haven't seen alumimium bottles before, though. Seems weird!

BM

[Friar]

Gee they'd be a bugger to cap, any pressure and they would crumple

F

[gregb]

My tuppence worth:

If I am going to not drink out of a glass container I will stick with the easily stored/stacked/opened/crushed etc classic tinnie.

Greg.

[munkey]

this is purely a gimmik in my eyes.

why take the worst inherrent design flaws and combine them into a drink container.

as someone allready said cans stack beter, and glass is smoth and cold on your lips, enhansing the smothness and coldness of any brew,
im a designer and most products are crap and its totaly the apperance and exsperiance they supply the user with that creates the impression,

if they were made out of gold though this could be a winner.

i could see them made out of highly polished stainless steal with the infomation etched into the bottle, and i thick rim on the top to hold the cold and give them something to polish up as smoth as glass, this could possibly work.

[flosso]

I remember a bit of butt-scuttle I heard around 1998 that Coca-cola were planning on getting rid of aluminium cans and release nothing but plastic bottles. Obviously this never happened.

I would think it'll be more likely in the future that beer companies will start using plastic instead of glass (some probably already do) than aluminium.

[gregb]

I've seen some beers sold in PET beer bottles at major events - probably because they didn't want the stubbies to be thrown at people.

Greg

[tommo]

anyone who's spent any time in pomgolia would've seen beer in plastic .

I can remember rolling up to the Donnington Rock Festival with four 2lt botts and still got refused entry on the grounds that people p!$s in them and hurl them into the crowd.

Had to sit at the gate and neck 8lt b4 i could go in.

You've got to admit plastic makes a lot of sense when Russell Crowe is about

[Dogger Dan]

Doogy,

They are very sexy and use a screw top like PET Bottles

Dogger