Why do drinks taste better in glass bottles than aluminum cans?

[CanOWorms]

I heard that Aluminum cans can give you herpes, too. Or maybe it was AIDS.

 

[preslove]

Lips touching glass is preferable to aluminum or plastic.

 

[TheGizmo]

Yep its the lining on the can... my friend who works at Busch Beer company told me this...


anyway, drinks that taste better out of the can:

Arizona Iced Tea
Sunkist (Do they even make a bottle?)
Hawaiin Punch
and as before mentioned,
Mountain Dew


Any others?

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
I heard that Aluminum cans can give you herpes, too. Or maybe it was AIDS.

It was Alzheimer's.

 

[Stunt]

Originally posted by: TheGizmo
Yep its the lining on the can... my friend who works at Busch Beer company told me this...


anyway, drinks that taste better out of the can:

Arizona Iced Tea
Sunkist (Do they even make a bottle?)
Hawaiin Punch
and as before mentioned,
Mountain Dew


Any others?

Anheuser Busch manufactuers their own cans, the only company that does. Oddly, their Canadian division buys product from my company instead of making their own. Anheuser Busch's auditers are the most strict in the food industry.

 

[MixMasterTang]

The trick is don't drink straight from the can. If you pour a beer from a bottle and pour one from a can I bet you could not tell the difference (and if you could, the canned beer may actually taste better because of the whole keeping out the light factor like mentioned above).

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: Howard
I'm talking about the taste thing, not the lining. Only an idiot would disagree with that part.

I gotta try the straw thing.

In a way, it makes much sense. If you just lick the opening, you'll taste metal. This is because since you just opened the can, there's no lining on the edge of the opening, so the aluminum is free to react with whatever.

 

[George P Burdell]

Maybe it's psychological.

 

[thesurge]

The drink itself (explicitly) doesn't have a metallic taste when coming from a can, but one's mouth on aluminum texture vs. glass texture (and the different openings) can alter the consumption experience.

 

[Praxis1452]

stop fooling yourselves it pretty much tastes the same. For god's sakes it's just soda. high fructose corn syrup+Water+carbonation and whatever else they decide to throw in there.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: Praxis1452
stop fooling yourselves it pretty much tastes the same. For god's sakes it's just soda. high fructose corn syrup+Water+carbonation and whatever else they decide to throw in there.

Ever hear of beer?

 

[Praxis1452]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: Praxis1452
stop fooling yourselves it pretty much tastes the same. For god's sakes it's just soda. high fructose corn syrup+Water+carbonation and whatever else they decide to throw in there.

Ever hear of beer?

Yea and it tastes like crap... I only like guiness and a few others. And I've had heineken in the can and bottle. Not really a difference though it's not like I paid that much attention to the taste.

 

[FoBoT]

its a myth, the cans are all coated now

 

[EarthwormJim]

If you drink straight from the can it does taste different. However pooring it into a glass it tastes basically the same.

Could also be that since glass sodas are marketed as a premium, they use the better "yields" of the drink.

 

[Praxis1452]

Originally posted by: EarthwormJim
If you drink straight from the can it does taste different. However pooring it into a glass it tastes basically the same.

Could also be that since glass sodas are marketed as a premium, they use the better "yields" of the drink.

how the f would that work?

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: Praxis1452

Originally posted by: EarthwormJim
If you drink straight from the can it does taste different. However pooring it into a glass it tastes basically the same.

Could also be that since glass sodas are marketed as a premium, they use the better "yields" of the drink.

how the f would that work?

you just... pour the soda... into... a glass? Are you retarted?



(that was intentional, for those wondering)

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: Praxis1452

Originally posted by: EarthwormJim
If you drink straight from the can it does taste different. However pooring it into a glass it tastes basically the same.

Could also be that since glass sodas are marketed as a premium, they use the better "yields" of the drink.

how the f would that work?

you just... pour the soda... into... a glass? Are you retarted?



(that was intentional, for those wondering)

you mean retarded

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: EarthwormJim
If you drink straight from the can it does taste different. However pooring it into a glass it tastes basically the same.

Could also be that since glass sodas are marketed as a premium, they use the better "yields" of the drink.

Ah, so if the night security guard gets drunk and takes a piss in a vat of coke, they put that in cans, and they put the non-piss Coke in bottles. An interesting theory.

 

[Stunt]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: EarthwormJim
If you drink straight from the can it does taste different. However pooring it into a glass it tastes basically the same.

Could also be that since glass sodas are marketed as a premium, they use the better "yields" of the drink.

Ah, so if the night security guard gets drunk and takes a piss in a vat of coke, they put that in cans, and they put the non-piss Coke in bottles. An interesting theory.

There's always going to be optimum values for all ingredients, there could be lower grades of product.

But I doubt significant quantities.

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: Praxis1452

Originally posted by: EarthwormJim
If you drink straight from the can it does taste different. However pooring it into a glass it tastes basically the same.

Could also be that since glass sodas are marketed as a premium, they use the better "yields" of the drink.

how the f would that work?

you just... pour the soda... into... a glass? Are you retarted?



(that was intentional, for those wondering)

you mean retarded

Bolded for clarification.

 

[Stunt]

You made a spelling mistake on purpose?

 

[Legendary]

Originally posted by: Stunt
You made a spelling mistake on purpose?

A retarded person would spell retarded incorrectly, thus t3h funnay.

 

[Motek]

I prefer cans TBH.

 

[Wheezer]

Could also be that since glass sodas are marketed as a premium, they use the better "yields" of the drink.

No it does not work that way.

When soda is produced it is "batched" in a large tank to which various flavor ingredients, HFC, purified water and anti-foam agents are added.

The batch is mixed then usially pumped over to a large stainless steel tank. The tank has an impeller on it which mixes periodically so there is no settling.

Most batches can only sit for 24 hours, such as Mt. Dew because if has some OJ in it, as well as other juiced based drinks. Soda such as Pepsi and all its variations as well as Dr. Pepper can sit for much longer before being canned or bottled or put into BIB for restaurant use. (for fountain machines)

If by chance a flavor should sit longer than it is supposed to (due to maintenance problems or an oversight by the QC dept. for example) it is usally then put into cans because the seam between the can and the can lid is MUCH tighter than that of a cap to a bottle.


<---used to work for a major soda producer