What's the difference in quality between canned and bottled beer?!
What's the difference in quality between canned and bottled beer?
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It really depends on the Beer with some yes there is no reall diffrence but some beers you can actually taste a difrence. Cans will have a more metal taste where bottles will taste cleaner and have more flavor. Its one of the reasons good micro brews use bottles ,so that you can taste the beer more than the container.
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Many nights drinking and a homebrewer
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but the can is better. i think it hold to temperature to perfection and it stays fuzzerly longer.
None.
Only the packaging is different.
not sure, but when i do drink ( not often ) i prefer bottled!
The quality should be similar if both are stored in the right conditions. Cans gain/lose heat quickly due to the thermal properties of aluminium. Beer in bottles has a higher chance of being poorer quality. This is because light can enter the bottle and cause a reaction that will break down molecules in the beer. This why most beer bottles are amber in colour- to limit the light entering the beer. Some beers come in clear bottles- they must be stored out of light if you want optimum quality. I do not recommend storing beer that is in a clear bottle.
If cans are left in the sun for a large period of time, the build up in heat can cause the beer to go off, but the main threat to the beer's quality is light. Thats why beer is brewed and stored in dark areas such as cellars.
I personally prefer drinking from bottles because some beers in cans do have a metal taste although cans are great if you need to quickly cool a six pack.
i really dont think there is one. i really think that its a prefrence in how you like the beer to come out do you understand what i mean
All things being equal cans are always better. They are lined with a plastic layer that prevents a taste of metal from getting into a beer. The biggest reasons that they are better though are for storage. Beers two biggest enemies are Oxygen and Light. Anything you can do to reduce these two things in your beer will dramatically improve the shelf life. Obviously a can will keep out light and it has been proven that the O2 levels in the two containers are about equal. For a fun at home test. Go to your local grocery store and pick up a bottle and a can of heineken. Have someone else give you a blind taste test. You will find that the bottle has an aged, cardboardy, skunky flavor, while the can will not. Its even funner in a group, not to mention a good excuse to suck back a few heinekens.
Finally the best part of cans? You can take them camping, hiking, fishing, to baseball games, just throw them in a cooler, and you can have a beer anywhere, no worries about waste, they crush, and you never have to be afraid of broken glass on the beach. The only real problem with cans is that they just dont seem to be catching on with microbrewers, so until they do I fear that it is bottles for me.
I used to think bottled beers were superior, but after some blind taste tests discovered there is no real taste difference. Premium beers are more likely to be packaged in bottles for cosmetic appearances, but they taste the same when canned. However, I personally recommend buying some beer glasses because when you pour your beer it releases the carbonation and generally tastes better. Invest in some mugs, pint glasses, pilsner glasses, snifters, goblets, steins and weizen glasses and try out some different styles of beers.
i think canned beer tastes the worst. to me it tastes like metal. bottles are good, but i love pitchers from the bars and stuff. yum they are so foamy and good.