If you could can your homebrew, would you?

[admin]

If you could walk into your local homebrew shop with 20L of your brew and can for 30c a can, would you?

Cans would be 330ml or 500ml, plain.

[Will_D]

I have difficulty with the descision.

I voted for the "bit too expensive" option but I was very close to Yes.

€12 for 40 cans is a bit steep for AGers who brew for less than this.

I would however get some done at that price. Ideal for giving away!

We would need a nice custom sticky label contact as well.

[ferg]

Yep. For the ipa's at least. Cans of torpedo and dead pony club sold me. I think the hop aroma and head retention is better out of the can.

[RichC]

If you could walk into your local homebrew shop with 20L of your brew and can for 30c a can, would you?

Cans would be 330ml or 500ml, plain.

Yes I would. Do it Shane!!! It's a great idea

[LordEoin]

I put too expensive, but i'd probably get maybe  1 brew per year canned for the beach, festivals, etc where you can't be bringing glass bottles

[Rats]

Yes and no.
As Will said at that price only a few for a give away.

[UpsidedownA (Andrew)]

Definitely not. Cans are not reusable and bottles are more aesthetically pleasing. The advantages of cans are that they are light weight, quick to chill, impermeable to gas, and opaque. Of these advantages, notably being lightweight only applies to commercial situations. It means when you ship beer and your transport costs are by weight, you ship more beer for the same weight than you would shipping bottles. Bottles are also impermeable to gas and amber is as good as opaque for protecting beer from light-strike. For home brew the transportation benefits of cans don't apply and bottles are reusable. Cans are not reusable. Bottles are slow to chill, true, but this disadvantage doesn't carry much weight for me. I plan ahead.

[Ciderhead]

Definitely would aluminium has a carbon footprint way lower than glass and is fully recyclable and much easier to do than glass on an industrial level.
No exposure to light and better lifespan than bottles, not because of the bottle but because of weakest point, the seal on the cap.
I don't drink punk IPA normally but out of cans in the best pizza restaurant in the country, The Platform on seafront in Bray along with their meat platter is the mutts.

[Eoin]

I'm certainly sold on the flavour of beer in cans, they've come a long way since they used taste of metal.

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[LordEoin]

I love carling from a can.
There... I've said it.

[RichC]

I think Andrew's point was bottles are reusable (as opposed to just recyclable) by homebrewers which is a fair point. Flip tops and you probably would get 10 years without even needing new gaskets.

Commercially though, aside from the snob value, cans win on every level.

I've priced canning machines over the last few days and even at 30c a can it'd be a looooooong time before you'd see payback.

Seeing the thing yerwan in the video pulled out of the trailer it's surprising that they're so expensive? Any idea how it works or why they're so dear? How much do they cost anyway?