Bottles or tins?

[tyred]

I virtually always buy beer in glass bottles. I cannot explain why but it always tastes better in a bottle.

I was in the supermarket this evening and they were sold out of the beer I wanted in bottles so I bought a few tins of it. I have no idea why but it tastes like a tasteless watered down version of the glass bottle version. I don't know why that should be but it has always been my experience which is why I am happy to pay a bit extra to buy the bottles.

I guess if all you want to do is purely to get drunk, then you may as well buy the huge multipack of Dutch Gold, Tennent's or whatever but if you want want to just enjoy a nice beer I think you need to buy it in a bottle.

Am I alone in thinking this?

 

[Globalti]

No. I hate canned beer, it always tastes metallic. I seem to remember this is because dissolved CO2 forms a weak carbonic acid, which picks up a metallic taint from the can. Any chemists around who can confirm this?

 

[Dirk]

In order of personal preference I would definitely go for cask ale first, then bottled, then tinned at a distant third.

 

[Slick]

I think it depends more on the drink but I do prefer most from the bottle.

 

[roley poley]

agreed beer or pop better in a bottle but why?

 

[classic33]

@tyred, I've a few relatives who'd agree with you, if it were Guinness.
Glass or Aluminum

 

[Milkfloat]

I always avoided beer in tins for the same reason, but in the last few years the tins are better and now I don’t mind, although I have to drink out of a glass.

 

[mistyoptic]

Bottles every time if I can’t have hand pulled draught

 

[Adam4868]

Bottles,tins are for Coronation Street.

 

[gaz71]

I prefer bottles but usually buy tins because they are lighter to carry home than bottles.

 

[tyred]

@tyred, I've a few relatives who'd agree with you, if it were Guinness.
Glass or Aluminum

Smithwick's in this case. Hardly a top of the range ale but I like it as draufht beer or from bottles. From a tin it seems bland and tasteless.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Cans are fine provided you pour it into a glass and drink it from that. Well, maybe not quite as good as bottles but some of the best beers come out of metal casks and kegs so metal's not the problem, IMO.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Modern cans are polythene lined, so the beer never comes into contact with metal after the brewing process.

Agree that bottled is better though.

 

[Smudge]

Sometimes the canned version of the same beer is at a lower abv than the bottled version.

 

[Accy cyclist]

The only tinned beer i tend to buy is Old Speckled Hen and that's when there's not much choice in the bottled stuff on the shelves. My 'beer connoisseur' friends insist that even bottled beer isn't 'real ale' as it contains chemicals to preserve it. If that's true then it must be a tiny amount,as unlike stuff like John Smith's Smooth i don't get that chemical taste after about 10 or 15 bottles of the stuff.