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Boxed wine comes in a plastic container. Beer goes off rather quickly without excellent storage, which is why cheap beer has settled on aluminum cans which pres

Boxed wine comes in a plastic container. Beer goes off rather quickly without excellent storage, which is why cheap beer has settled on aluminum cans which preserve well while being cheaper and lighter than glass.

peoplefromibiza 3y ago
> which is why cheap beer has settled on aluminum cans Where I come from beers come almost exclusively in glass bottles for the large ones (66cl), aluminum cans are only used for the small ones (33cl) but you can buy them in glass as well. There is usually no price difference whatsoever For example https://www.amazon.it/Peroni-Italiano-Moderatamente-Gradazione-Alcolica/dp/B07XZHHNHC/ https://www.amazon.it/Peroni-Italiano-Moderatamente-Gradazio... https://www.amazon.it/Peroni-175-Anniversario-Birra-Cassa-dp-B08X2FMV5S/dp/B08X2FMV5S/ https://www.amazon.it/Peroni-175-Anniversario-Birra-Cassa-dp... Many of the cheapest beers are imports, for example Bavaria, that you usually find in aluminum cans in Holland but in glass bottles in Italy. I can't explain why, but for us some things must be bottled in glass or they aren't "good". Tomatoes is another example: you can find cans of tomato pulp or peeled tomatoes, but not the sauce, it always comes in glass bottles (it exists of course, but it's a very weird choice to us).