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| Posted by jost on 2020-12-24 12:07:49 |
| It's complicated. I've looked into it repeatively over the last years and don't think there is a justifiable reason to switch to cans for Franconian Brewers. Especially atm as canning/can equipment is still upstart an there are alot of industrial bottlenecks as we seen this year in the US (shortage of cans). On the bottom is a fairly good comparison between cans and bottles on multiple levels, environmental (production, recycling, transport), organoleptic, .. ---- based on this standartised 50cl (reusable) are easily most favourable in my opinion if distributed within a 50-75km radius. But I'd like to briefly mention a few addional points: - any comparison need to keep in mind an existing ecosystem/environment - which in GER is well-functioning deposit bottles for standard bottles (majorily) and its infrastructure. - any mobile filling business (especially in a brewery rich) region will be more expensive than existing commercially available (shared) bottling facilities - can liners are only officially certified for max. 1 year. there are some new developments but this will take years to reach markets - acidity is a huge no-go for can liners - can-conditioning, while possible, is far more problematic, especially for breweries utilising own yeast cultures/repitching. it's not surprising that we see as massive standardisation of one-pitch/dry yeast lab culture go hand-in-hand with can popularity. - cans, like bottles, have very specific properties which are benefitual for some characteristics vs others. in the time-frame Franconian beer is consumed, nearly none of them matter. I strongly believe that many Franconian breweries could improve their filling operation, yet I don't think that means they should look at canning. Instead slight adjustments in brewing process and filling technology could provide outsized quality improvements with current equipment. This assume the focus on a similar audience as currently (some are switching, see Mahrs), but that is likely what we're talking about for most. 1) https://www.hopfenhelden.de/bierdose-ein-vergleich-der-gebinde/ |
| Followups: |
 Krug Geisfeld - Flaschen! by jost on 2020-12-24 12:11:39 |
| Krug Geisfeld - Flaschen! by jost on 2020-12-24 12:16:08 |
| Krug Geisfeld - Flaschen! by Jason on 2020-12-25 04:52:35 |