Commercial beer coming in plastic soon.

As home brewers, we've all known about the use of plastic (PET) bottles for quite some time.

It's an obvious safe choice for us owing to over-priming risks when we're starting out. Not only that, but it's light weight and there's no danger of dropping or bumping one off the counter when we have a bench full of bottles.

However, there seems to be some perception in the commercial marketplace that beer in PET is a bad thing. People make all kinds of non-positive assertions about it, claiming taste difference among other gripes.

If we, the discerning hand made beer crowd can choose it as an economical and environmentally sound option, what's wrong with the average Joe drinking megaswill from it?

After all, it has been a very long time since soft drink and fruit juice were sold in glass bottles in the majority, isn't it?

So the same fools who swill a buddy of Coke with their fatburger with extra preservatives, chemicals and emulsifers for lunch are bitching about a beer in a PET bottle?

I don't know what the world and the hypocrisy of the people is coming to...

Check this out:

http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/culture/brewery-gives-plastic-beer-bottles-another-shot-20091203-k879.html


Cheers!!