Truthfully, I don't remember what brand. Unlike the old days, a six pack will last me sometimes six months or more. Therefore, I feel comfortable experimenting with some of the local microbrewery brews. It may have been one of those. It sort of surprised me, too. We all know that windshields break with softer edges and no jagged bits, but it sort of surprised me that a bottle would do that. Wish I could be more helpful.
Louise
From: Bill Walden <[email protected]>
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Subject: [Texascavers] Beer bottles
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:09:58 -0400
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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.
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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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