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Beer in a pouch doesn't add metallic tastes, easy to fill
It might seem strange to quaff your brewskis from a pouch like this, but its maker says it'll taste a whole lot better. The CarboPouch by the Beverage Pouch Group is designed for artisan beermakers, letting them fill you up a six pack to go on-site, making it so the smaller brewers don't need to buy any cumbersome beer-filling assembly line contraptions to ply their hand-made wares.
The best part is the "organoleptic film structure" that doesn't change the taste of the beer at all. The slightly flexible pouch gives the beer room to fizz, and it's easy to fill with the cap on the bottom. Don't expect beer from the majors to sell like this, but this could be a big plus for local beer craftsmen.
By TearEmUp at 11:47 AM ON 06/15/09
Can I get some of these in a camel-back configuration?
By Tieko at 11:50 AM ON 06/15/09
Not as theatrical to break one of these on a counter top and get into a bar fight - but the idea is rather niffty (that's right, I said niffty)
By TR at 1:03 PM ON 06/15/09
it's not exactly prohibitively difficult to fill growlers (those large, gallon and half-gallon bottles employed by craft breweries) from the tap. Nor is it too difficult to fill sixpacks on the fly, use a blichmann beer gun or a small scale bottling line. This just seems gimmicky. Besides, most small scale artisan breweries make way more money distributing beer to liquor stores and bars than they do from in house sales, so this just wouldn't ever make sense.
By Hmmm at 1:13 PM ON 06/15/09
Now only if the makers of Capri Sun would give us beer out of a straw! Yum!
By nilus at 2:06 PM ON 06/15/09
There is already a non-metallic substiance that local brewers use to store beer in. Its easy to fill and seal and cheap to get. Its called Glass.
Its also really easy to sanitize and reuse which I suspect these might not be.
By TJPaladin at 3:28 PM ON 06/15/09
Wait until you bring this to your next frat party !
No more funnels, No more messy poking holes in the bottom of the can.
Just --squeeze-- these babies straight down your throat !
Can't we just hear the chanting now ? --- go, squeeze, go, squeeze, go, squeeze...
By Taos at 6:48 PM ON 06/15/09
These look like the perfect container for floating down a river, once empty they take up less space than a crushed can or a glass bottle that could be broken.
By Jeff at 12:19 AM ON 06/16/09
Fire-up Da Grill and break out the Pouchskis!
By DrOK at 2:41 PM ON 06/16/09
These would be way easier for me to crush against my skull once I finishing slamming it! Keep up the great work CarboPouch TM.
By Anonymous at 8:44 PM ON 06/16/09
What's the recycling plan for these? I know nobody would introduce a new landfill-clogging product but I'm surprised the recycling scenario is not being touted here.
By BrewMax at 9:19 PM ON 06/16/09
Are we talking plastic here? Plastic usually has an air permeation problem. What is the shelf life on the filled tubes?
By SImon H at 2:27 PM ON 06/17/09
As a hobby brewer, cans are the best vessel to hold beer, and do not leave a metallic aftertaste. Tons of reasearch has been done on this by the big brewers over the years. This is simply playing on people's ignorance and a grab for novelty dollars. Don't buy into it.
By speak at 4:59 PM ON 06/17/09
If the cap is on the bottom, what about beer that is "bottle" fermented? Now when this is opened, all the yeast will come out first? It doesn't make sense for Craft brewers. The only thing this does is make light not an issue, but there are plenty of other issues like oxygenation.
By Packaging Geek at 10:40 AM ON 06/23/09
Carbonated soft drinks in 1 ltr. PET plastic were a novelty in 1979. This is all about the evolution of packaging -- and this is a technical breakthrough. Re: the plastic film issue in a landfill -- rethink your eco-position. Pouches are all about source-reduced packaging, not recycling. There are eco-tradeoffs with every package: Glass is heavy to transport (using more energy in distribution) but maintains 100 percent of its performance attributes when recycled; PET is fossil-based but has an outstanding recycling infrastructure; pouches are not recyclable but significantly reduce the amount of packaging material used. Pick your eco battles, consider the journey not the destination, enjoy the beer.
By Beero at 8:33 PM ON 07/26/09
"The slightly flexible pouch gives the beer room to fizz".
As in, let CO2 come out of solution? Seems like it wouldn't hold its intended carbonation for a long time.
By someguy at 4:46 PM ON 10/08/09
These are great. F the haters. I can drink these all day and I sneak them into everywhere
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