Glass; Aluminum Can; Plastic - How do you like your soda/beer?

[Alan Shutko]

Dublin Dr Pepper in glass.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

I'll drink soda out of pretty much any container--I'm really not that picky. Don't drink it every day but when I do it needn't be out of glass/aluminum/plastic either way.

Like many of the other posters, however, an aluminum or nickel alloy can imparts a metallic taste to the beverage inside. Glass is more inert and doesn't do this. I personally don't have the taste buds to differentiate between glass and plastic--they're pretty much equivalent to my palate.

I don't drink beer, but here in Hawaii we are close enough to the Philippines that every once in a while I am able to pick up a six-pack of imported coke in glass bottles made with cane sugar. Hands down, this by far and away the best tasting soda. My husband works for a soda manufacturer here on island and judging by some of his work stories, the plant here wishes they could afford to mass produce glass-containered soda made with cane sugar. Cane sugar's no longer a major agricultural product here in Hawaii (though it used to be), so everything that the soda plant bottles now is put into either plastic or a can. Incidentally, it turns out that cans are WAY cheaper than the plastic slips used to make bottles. I was also surprised to hear that the company uses the same size/density plastic slip to make all their plastic bottles, from 2 liters all the way down to 16 oz soda containers. This is why a 2 liter bottle feels much thinner than a 16 oz bottle.

 

[jaerdaph]

I prefer fountain soda to anything bottled or canned. I can only drink beer on tap in a pint glass, even if it's just a Bud.

 

[AnonymousOne]

Put em on the glass!


I prefer good beer tapped in the proper glass, but a bottle will do in a pinch.

Truly you know how to treat a good beer.

 

[Tewligan]

I prefer to have all of my drinks served to me in the skulls of my enemies. Or, if that's not available, then glass.

 

[buzzard]

Got a kegerator this year, so pretty much all the beer I drink is in glasses poured from a tap.

Rough life eh?

buzzard

 

[ssampier]

Put em on the glass!


I prefer good beer tapped in the proper glass, but a bottle will do in a pinch.

Ah beer out of the tap; don't have that very often. Most places only have my choice beer in bottles.

 

[Horacio]

Beer out of the tap, of course. They call them "pressure beer" (bière pression) here in France.

If not, glass bottle. Good beer shound't be put in a can

For soda... I don't like sodas, so I don't mind

 

[Rhuvein]

Bottle!!

I can drink pop out of can if I pour it into a glass with ice.

 

[Bront]

For pop, it's Cans, or poured into a glass. Bottles don't keep them cold long enough.

For beer, not sure. Only had 1 in a plastic bottle, and it didn't thrill me.