Do you also see the difference or am I tripping?
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You’re telling me if I poured each into a cup and you tasted them separately you could identify which is which? I personally doubt it but I also wouldn’t know
Heineken from a bottle…refreshing, definitely a step up or two from the low end mass-produced beers.
Heineken from a can…tastes like crimes against humanity.
Smell is a big factor which people have said.
Also light changes the flavor if things, so the type and style of bottle will make a difference. Plastic and glass will get different amounts of light through. Of course cans don’t let light through.
How they are filled how much oxygen gets in during the fill process, which is a bit different for cans, plastic, and glass.
I almost guarantee if you did a blind taste test you would not be able to tell a difference.
It’s all in your mind from the appearance and the rest of the experience.
I think it tastes best out of a glass bottle, but I also enjoy it out of a can almost as much, as long as it’s cold. I think worst is plastic bottle because I feel like you get the plastic-y taste from it. I also like the idea of using cans, because aluminum can be recycled an infinite number of times. Glass can be recycled too, but from what I’ve read online, is that recycling centers have so much glass that sometimes they don’t know what to do with it. With aluminum cans, at least it seems like it’s always accepted for recycling and they actually recycle it no matter how much or little they get.
I noticed this with Sunkist. Canned Sunkist to me is liquid crack. But bottled Sunkist tastes like plastic, whether it’s the 2 liter or half liter, it always tastes like plastic. I won’t drink it from the bottle.
Really?. Different containers, taste different?. I can’t figure that one out!.
You can pressurize an aluminum can to like 60 psi vs 35 for glass and somewhere in between for plastic (i forget offhand). The higher CO2 content makes it fizzier and more acidic.
I might be an outlier, but I prefer Coke from a plastic bottle over every other type of container. I’ll often pay more for a plastic bottle
of Coke over one from a soda fountain. Mmmmm, microplastics.
I own a craft soda company. We’ve been bottling our product since day one. Recently, we started canning it as it’s more profitable and is easier with distribution and marketing. Unfortunately we’ve had a little push back from our diehard customers regarding a shift in flavor in the canned product and asked if we can sell them bottled instead of canned.
Our product is featured in some restaurants that have asked to be supplied by bottles as to not dilute the fancy experience. For this reason, we’ve bottled and canned the same batch, and to be honest I can really taste a difference between them. It’s feel the canned soda is a stale, and that the glass one feel more fresh and crisp. Hard to describe.
This has happened these last couple of weeks, so if anyone has the technical answer, please share!
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