Beer Trivia: Why you don't use plastic bottles for beer

In the beer packaging we see, beer is almost always packed in glass bottles or cans rather than lightweight plastic bottles. So what is the reason for this? Below, let us together to beer culture together to understand to see do not use plastic bottles of beer in the reason is what?

Plastic bottles of beer are easy to "run out of gas"

Plastic is more permeable than glass (which itself is impermeable to oxygen and carbon dioxide). This means that beer (or any other soft drink) is more likely to "run out of gas" and become bland in a plastic bottle than in a glass bottle, because the carbon dioxide that makes the beer bubbly is more easily lost. Glass also has the advantage that it's flavorless and doesn't react chemically with what's in it.

Plastic, on the other hand, is full of chemicals that are highly likely to seep into your drink and ruin your beer. For example, polyester plastic containers are often manufactured using antimony as a catalyst, and residual antimony can leach into your drink.

Antimony levels in beverages are harmless at or below room temperature, and rise once the temperature rises. So if the drink has been sitting in an unsealed warehouse for a couple of months in the summer or some other warm place, the antimony content in it greatly exceeds the standard.

Beer is safer in easy-open cans

As for aluminum cans, like glass, aluminum isn't as permeable, making it a great material for storing beer. Interestingly, aluminum cans are coated on the inside with a special polymer coating specifically designed to inhibit aluminum from penetrating into the beverage, making can storage safer; as excess aluminum levels in the body can lead to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's syndromes.

In any case, aluminum cans can store drinks in full light protection and protect them better than other types of packaging. In fact, we store beer in glass, tinted glass to be exact, because it protects it from the sun.

It's actually possible to make the same color out of plastic, but there's a risk of disrupting the established order of the plastic recycling system. Plastic beer bottles, if made the same amber color as glass bottles, would require an additional coating to protect the beer inside, and would be harder to recycle than the clear plastic bottles favored by the soft drink industry.

There's another problem with plastic bottle packaging: they don't have a way to go through the pasteurization process. After the beer is brewed, there's an important process where, after the packaging is complete, they are fed into a machine that heats them with jets of boiling water to kill any bacteria that may still be in the beer.

This ensures the quality and safety of the beer and extends their shelf life. Glass bottles and aluminum cans, of course, are no problem at all, while plastic bottles can't do well with hundreds of degrees of boiling water.

Special circumstances: thousands of people drunk, glass bottles are too scary

However, many people do not realize that, in some special circumstances, the beer will also be temporary to plastic bottles "temporary residence" for a period of time. For example, the UK makes it mandatory for alcoholic beverages to be served in plastic bottles at special events.

During the 2012 London Olympics, beer sponsors placed many fridges on the streets of London, providing sports fans with more than a million bottles of beer in plastic packaging. These bottles were designed specifically for the Olympics. This was mainly for safety reasons.

Because during the Olympics, sports fans from all over the world come to watch the games and drink beer while they watch. Although they have different cultural backgrounds, they are all sports enthusiasts who come together to watch the games, and it's wise not to give them glass bottles or anything that could be used as a murder weapon.

Brown Glass Bottles PK Green Glass Bottles

There were no specialized beer bottles in the early days, and more green wine bottles, which were abundant in the world, were used. So, by the end of the 19th century, when specialized beer bottles began to be available, the tradition of green bottles was preserved.

Brown bottles were around until the 1930s. It was discovered that if you put beer inside a brown bottle, it made beer that had been sitting for a long time taste a little better, and more beer was made using brown bottles.

Brown bottles, because of their dark color, were more resistant to sunlight than green bottles, and thus had a better effect on the quality of the beer. The brown bottle has become a symbol of quality beer.

So as you can see, most craft beers on the market come in brown beer bottles, while most industrial beers come in green bottles.