Beer should come in 2 liter bottles.

[scottsee]

They come in cans, bottles, metal keg, but why not a plastic 2 liter bottles? That would be awsome!

[Andydg]

That would be neat...

[2.2 Straight six]

it does over here.

['97ventureowner]

I don't know about the plastic part, I think soda tastes better in glass or metal containers. I can't imagine how beer would taste in plastic. I know some breweries, Miller for example, are experimenting with plastic bottles. I also think you'd get a lot of backlash from groups opposed to alcohol consumption and drunk driving, saying that putting beer in that size of a bottle only encourages more drinking= more drunk driving,alcoholism, health problems, etc. There always has to be some group out there opposed to something nowadays.

[2.2 Straight six]

we sometimes get it in 2/3-litre bottles. Cider like Strongbow often comes in big plastic bottles.

i used to go throught a 3-litre bottle of cider in one night, get thoroughly pissed and pass out.

[Toksin]

Can get em here, they're called riggers. Though it's usually the absolute shittest low quality beer you can buy.

I like nice beer in glass bottles.

[freakray]

The reason quality beer doesn't come in plastic (also known as PET bottles in the bottling industry) is the UV inhibitive properties of glass over PET.
Light and more specifically UV exposure in beer causes it to degrade, this is the reason most beers come in either green or brown tinted bottles, these color glasses protect the beer the best from the 'bad' light, brown glass has the best properties though.
Glass thickness also helps, that's why the high end beers always seem to come in bottles which are useful in riots and bar fights as they don't break easily

So to answer your question, you can have your beer in a 2L bottle but it will have a short shelf life and will be cheap as dirt.

[-Josh-]

Most ballparks have your regular brand beer in plastic bottles.

['97ventureowner]

Originally Posted by freakray

The reason quality beer doesn't come in plastic (also known as PET bottles in the bottling industry) is the UV inhibitive properties of glass over PET.
Light and more specifically UV exposure in beer causes it to degrade, this is the reason most beers come in either green or brown tinted bottles, these color glasses protect the beer the best from the 'bad' light, brown glass has the best properties though.
Glass thickness also helps, that's why the high end beers always seem to come in bottles which are useful in riots and bar fights as they don't break easily

So to answer your question, you can have your beer in a 2L bottle but it will have a short shelf life and will be cheap as dirt.

I was just reading an article last week where Miller was experimenting with brown tinted PET bottles to house their beer. But currently it's color and design are posing problems for recyclers nationwide.http://www.grrn.org/miller_waste/miller3.html . Note the article says an expected shelf life of 4 months. I think it'll be awhile before the general public "accepts" beer in a plastic bottle as they are so used to glass and metal cans. It's like an American tradition. (Plus you can't crush a plastic bottle on your head like you can a metal can when you are finished with it.

[BrodyP]

Originally Posted by -Josh-

Most ballparks have your regular brand beer in plastic bottles.

Yup its the worst and they don't give you the cap....

[freakray]

Originally Posted by '97ventureowner

I was just reading an article last week where Miller was experimenting with brown tinted PET bottles to house their beer. But currently it's color and design are posing problems for recyclers nationwide.http://www.grrn.org/miller_waste/miller3.html . Note the article says an expected shelf life of 4 months. I think it'll be awhile before the general public "accepts" beer in a plastic bottle as they are so used to glass and metal cans. It's like an American tradition. (Plus you can't crush a plastic bottle on your head like you can a metal can when you are finished with it.

The MIller switch to PET is old news to me, I first saw samples of what they were looking at over a year ago.
In fact I have some of the Miller sample PET bottles, they are thicker plastic than the regular Coke and Pepsi type PET bottles and also the UV inhibitors required in the plastic make it more costly to make. Also, due to the thicker plastic required they have a very strange base which makes them really hard to convey on bottling lines at the typical brewery line speeds (breweries typically fill at around 900 bottles per minute).
There is now an initiative in place to use regular clear PET for the bottle and coat it with a UV inhibitor ink which will be dyed the color.

One key reason Miller is looking at PET is to get more product sales in sporting events, it's a huge market for the beer industry and if they can sell bottled beer in plastic bottles they make huge grounds.

Also, using PET can mean that Miller can go to blow molding at their bottling plants as opposed to having to rely on a third party glass manufacturer as they do now, and the lighter PET bottles reduce in house handling costs significantly.

[wrightz28]

I was going to say, I could sweear I saw Miller in a plastis bottle. Maybe the midwest is their 'test market' since it's their backyard.

Holy snap, I'm posting in the off-topic area

Oh yeah, 'cuz we're talking beer here

I don't give a rats hiney what it comes in , hell they can start putting it in the Caprisun packets for all I care, so long as it's cold, refreshing, and damn fine tasint beer.

[highteknology]

Coor light came out with the 18 pack plastic bottles a while back. They came in a cheap little cooler that was marketed towards beach people. The idea being you could put ice in the cooler and keep the beer cold. It was the same as drinking beer from a bottle, yet you couldn't take glass to the beach, therefor they were in plastic bottles.

[Nicole8188]

Bonnaroo was the first time I had ever seen beer in plastic bottles. It was pretty bad beer, too.

Anyway, I think it should come in 2 liter glass bottles. Mmm...beer.

[BP2K2Max]

by the time you get to the bottom of a 2 liter bottle the beer would be all flat and gross from getting sloshed around. a 24 oz. is bottle the biggest i'll drink at a time.