Does anything happen if you take a beer can/bottle up to high elevations?

[Stojakapimp]

I'm heading to Mammoth this weekend and we want to go load up on beer, but my friend is worried that we shouldn't buy the beer down here and then drive it up into high elevations, due to the low pressure and increase in volume. I've never heard of this being a problem, but I wasn't sure. I mean they have to get the beer cans and bottles up to the stores in the mountains somehow?

Any ideas?

 

[Mike Gayner]

It will definitely be a problem...if the bottles are made of lightly compacted dust. Otherwise it will be fine.

 

[2dt Drifter]

The only thing you have to worry about is the beer bouncing in the car ride up causing it to get all shaken up.

 

[highland145]

Your friend should not be drinking beer.

 

[coxmaster]

I mean they have to get the beer cans and bottles up to the stores in the mountains somehow?

Obviously they bottle/can it in the mountains... :awe:

 

[scott916]

I've heard of bottles of champagne popping open in unpressurized cargo holds of passenger aircraft, but I seriously doubt you'll have a problem unless you buy your beer from Spongebob.

 

[FuzzyDunlop]

is your friend by any chance named Fleabag? Sounds like something he would say.

No, its not a problem. The pressure difference is not great enough. You have seen cans of pop on airplanes before, haevnt you?

 

[Stojakapimp]

Yeah that's what I figured. Thanks for the input

 

[techs]

If you go into the mountains you will get high, either way.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

If beer and mountains didn't mix every ski resort in the US would go out of business.

 

[darkxshade]

Does anything happen if you take a beer can/bottle up to high elevations?

yea, you end up having to take them back down empty

 

[zinfamous]

wtf with this question....

 

[Leros]

I've had bags of potato chips and stuff like that seem more inflated at higher altitude, but I've never had anything actually explode.