I just found out this evening that my favorite beer is going to switch from bottles to cans. The Tallgrass beer company which manufactures and bottles its beer just down the road from me is switching over to cans and cans ONLY.
Evidently the beermeister at the Tallgrass Brewing Company did some thorough research and concluded that the taste of beer from a can is completely indiscernible from the taste of beer from a bottle. I plan to conduct my own taste test as soon as the cans start appearing on the shelves and in the meantime I aim to raid every liquor store within a fifty mile radius and stock up on the bottled version of Tallgrass Wheat.
I just really, really, REALLY prefer that my beer come from a bottle!
Because it DOES tastes better!
It DOES!
Doesn’t it?
Besides! It’s not just the taste! It’s also the difference between pressing glass to your lips and pressing a pointy aluminum opening to your lips.
And it’s also the difference between gesticulating wildly during heated debates with a smoky brown cylindrical bottle in your hand which tends to make one look smart and interesting versus jabbing the air with an aluminum can to dramatize your point which tends to make one look like a drunken fool.
You can read the Tallgrass ‘canifesto’ here, in which Jeff Gill, the founder of the Tallgrass Brewery explains his decision to switch from bottles to cans. He claims it is a choice that will benefit both the beer and the environment, but he does not mention that canned beer will also increase his profit margin. Not that I am against a local brewer making money! Just not at the cost of my beer coming in a bottle! Which is ultimately extremely ludicrous as I almost always pour my beer into a glass before I drink it. Because I have to add salt and lemon to my beer. I have to! I can’t drink beer without salt and lemon. It’s impossible!
I have a lot of beer issues.
And these days I only drink one beer.
Tallgrass Wheat.
So why are they SCREWING IT UP!
What do you think?
Is the bottle thing totally in my head?
Does an aluminum container have little to no effect on the taste of beer?
Is it possible that an aluminum can actually improves the taste of beer?
Look for a weekend taste test if I can still find both the cans and the bottles.
It may take a lot of beer tasting before I can make up my mind.
So if the post staggers all over the page and then jabs the air with an aluminum can…
You will understand won’t you?
Do you have a favorite beer?
And do you prefer it in bottles?
Or cans?
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