Louise and all,
I accidentally knocked a bottle of beer from the garage refrigerator
Friday evening and the bottle shattered into hundreds of sharp pieces. I
lamented the loss of a beer particularly because I live in a dry area of
KY. My house overlooks Otter Creek and we have a really nice beach
below the house. The beer of choice for the litterbugs is clearly Bud
Light in bottles, many of which are broken. The beach is a popular
swimming hole. Glass beer bottles and beaches don't mix. I cannot count
the number of heavy duty contractor bags that I have filled with Bud
Light bottles and a few Miller beer bottles from the beach.
The type bottle you mention would be great. What kind of beer? Perhaps
we could encourage Anheuser-Busch and other companies to adopt such bottles.
Best to all,
Bill Walden
Haven't seen this in the PacNW, but I have to agree w/Mark. Probably a
marketing gimmick.
Mark said: /Aluminum is almost certainly more environmentally damaging
to produce than glass, but on the other hand, it won't break and leave
sharp shards lying around.
/
Do glass beer bottles still make sharp shards? I dropped one on my
concrete front porch last year and, after getting over the horror of
wasting a beer, noticed that most of the bottle had crumbled into a
sand-like consistency. No sharp corners, even on the bigger pieces.
Louise
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This is really old news, but it is caving related
because most cavers like beer, and many
cavers in the world consider beer a part of their after-cave-trip
celebration.
All the young preppies here in Houston
( and the Britney Spears wannabes ) seem to prefer
their beer in an aluminum bottle?
I haven't tried one yet, and I wouldn't be a fair tester
as I have never acquired a taste for beer.
What is up with the aluminum bottle?
Is the only benefit, colder beer? Or colder beer for
less energy?
Is that better for the environment than a glass bottle?
I assume this has caught on nationwide.
Does the top screw back on? That could be a benefit.
If there were an occasion to take beer in a cave, then
having it in an aluminum bottle would be ideal, right?
( like during the tuxedo caving trips )
David Locklear
caver in Fort Bend County
old Ref:
http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/040824/040824_beer_hmed_3p.hmedium.jpg
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