scomet
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Years ago as a young engineer I remember being summoned to the head office of our local pop manufacturer by the Engineering Manager who was a mate of mine from Leeds. He pulled out the first 'plastic' pop bottle I had ever seen! In answer to my question “What is that” he said “That young scomet is the future!” He then went on to explain in detail how it superseded glass in every metric that was critical to his product. Shame they hadn't considered the damage it was going to do to the planet.
Fast forward to the present - I have been using large plastic pop bottles for my extra beers since I started kegging about seven years ago. In this time I have given hundreds away, all with my email address on with a request for comments. I have not had a single complaint to date. About 5 years ago I kegged an RIP at 13.8% I didn't care too much for the taste of, so I threw it into 'pop' bottles and left it in a cool dark place. This last xmas I opened a bottle out of curiosity it was imo superb, my only regret was having given so many away!!
I have heard all these criticisms of pop bottles over and over but what gets me is; How does evil oxygen cross the PET with a deltaP of ~1.5bar!? That makes no sense, just keep them dark with the lids on tight...
Come on guys we are not bottling Grange Hermitage here! it's a few beers to go etc..
CHEERS - scomet
Fast forward to the present - I have been using large plastic pop bottles for my extra beers since I started kegging about seven years ago. In this time I have given hundreds away, all with my email address on with a request for comments. I have not had a single complaint to date. About 5 years ago I kegged an RIP at 13.8% I didn't care too much for the taste of, so I threw it into 'pop' bottles and left it in a cool dark place. This last xmas I opened a bottle out of curiosity it was imo superb, my only regret was having given so many away!!
I have heard all these criticisms of pop bottles over and over but what gets me is; How does evil oxygen cross the PET with a deltaP of ~1.5bar!? That makes no sense, just keep them dark with the lids on tight...
Come on guys we are not bottling Grange Hermitage here! it's a few beers to go etc..
CHEERS - scomet
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