Bottled, vs Draft, vs Can

Aluminum has a taste, glass doesn't. Also, canned beer gets warmer quicker.

Yes, but the volume seals in the freshness. ie, it takes longer to spoil a gallon of milk then it does a pint. That's why the 5 liter kegs are great.

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The cost of canning lines isn't the only obstacle. The other problem is there are way too many beer consumers running around in America with this daft notion that canned beer = bad beer. There's nothing inherently inferior about the can as a packaging mechnanism, and you've already outlines some of the ways it's preferable.

It is fun, though, bursting those people's bubbles by pointing out how, when I lived in Germany, I often drank Jever or PU that was in a can.

-Steve

I agree with this psot. (ObAOL: Me twooo!1!)

Absolutely. Ten years ago, taking a train from Brussels to Muenster, a friend and I had to change trains in Cologne. It was a warm summer day, so I asked him to mind our bags while basking on the platform, and ran down to the station's supermarket. Came back with cans of Budvar. His eyes went saucer-wide. I told him there were plenty more where that came from. I've seen canned Koelsch, Altbier, Weissbier, and more Pilsners than I'd know what to do with. There are canned witbiers and krieks in Belgium. With all these beers, the package is to their advantage. I've yet to open a can of light-struck beer.