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"RichSib":8468fien wrote: There is no reason why carefully monitored beer can not be conditioned in a can the same as in a bottle. [/quote:8468fien]

Why are people so hung up on bottle conditioning, bar some bigger aging beers i can see the majority of ordinary strength beers not need it

Other than bottle conditioning is a cheap entry level (as a posed to co2 fill lines) for brewery's to get there product out

"RichSib":171k79vo wrote: There is no reason why carefully monitored beer can not be conditioned in a can the same as in a bottle. [/quote:171k79vo]

"KeeganAles":171k79vo wrote: Here's another article that talks about all the misconceptions and benefits of canning, but this time from a mainstream food magazine:
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Hate to quote myself, but this article mentions conditioning New Belgium's Fat Tire in cans but *not* in the bottle.

I've taken delivery from Drinkstore today of a wide-ranging order so would like to blind taste test myself on Can Vs Bottle (maybe I am just a bottle snob)... However not sure I'll find any of the beers in aforementiond order available in tins...

Perhaps this is the Craft Beer drinkers equivalent of the Wine Drinkers '[b:5zgt5lv3]Screw-Cap Versus Cork[/b:5zgt5lv3]' debate which used to smoulder... Seems to have been largely settled now particularly since the explosion in New World Wines which tend to all be screw cap.

Though my old man still won't touch any of that modern 'screw cap' stuff...

&amp;quot;KeeganAles&amp;quot;:1hx3uikc wrote: Here's another article that talks about all the misconceptions and benefits of canning, but this time from a mainstream food magazine:
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So after reading the article here's a quetion:

Where do our glass bottles go for re-cycling ?

I believe a long way away!


Where do our cans go?

I suspect the cans go over to Angelsey to the Aluminium smelter there or is there an Irish smelter?

Will

&amp;quot;Will_D&amp;quot;:29hk295t wrote: I suspect the cans go over to Angelsey to the Aluminium smelter there or is there an Irish smelter?[/quote:29hk295t]
Aughinish Alumina, smelters, dunno if they do cans tho.

I know of 6 Aluminum smelters in the country, I dont know which if any of them do cans.