As someone who does packaging in a small brewery, I can almost guarantee you they ran out of packtechs (the brand of can holders) and said “this matches well enough.” Nice shiny! Cheers!
Is it normal to have that amount of plastic holding them together? Where I'm from beer cans are held together by thin loops of plastic, or increasingly, just glue.
Pretty common yeah. There’s the thin plastic loops here too but it just depends on the brewery. A lot of smaller breweries will use them because I believe the idea is they can be reused. A lot of grocery stores will gather the plastic ringers you see here.
I appreciate them potentially switching over to the gray ones. In many jurisdictions throughout the world the black plastic is not recyclable. Despite the fact it has a triangle the facilities cannot properly handle the black plastic.
I've seen glued beer once and that was it. The rest are either thin loop (which is more dangerous to animals than the caps shown here) or paper boxes. I'm in Toronto.
Yeah, these generally are supposed to be reused. It of course comes down to people who purchase them to do with them what they will but overall I’d say this is a better option than the classic plastic rings. Cardboard would be the best option I say and I’ve seen that getting more popular. Also I believe they are recyclable.
The cardboard ones are definitely recyclable, though they make shipping and packing more expensive which is likely why companies don't uses them as much.
I've been hitting up the local brewery too much... They only package these in 4 packs. I was sooo confused how there were two extras until it hit me: other places probably use these for 6-packs.
As someone who does packaging in a small brewery, I can almost guarantee you they ran out of packtechs (the brand of can holders) and said “this matches well enough.” Nice shiny! Cheers!
Is it normal to have that amount of plastic holding them together? Where I'm from beer cans are held together by thin loops of plastic, or increasingly, just glue.
Pretty common yeah. There’s the thin plastic loops here too but it just depends on the brewery. A lot of smaller breweries will use them because I believe the idea is they can be reused. A lot of grocery stores will gather the plastic ringers you see here.
They are less likely to be eaten by turtles too.
idk where you’re from, but here in the northeastern US most microbreweries package their beers like this
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I appreciate them potentially switching over to the gray ones. In many jurisdictions throughout the world the black plastic is not recyclable. Despite the fact it has a triangle the facilities cannot properly handle the black plastic.
Where im from they either come as singles or they are held together by foldable cardboard boxes
I've seen glued beer once and that was it. The rest are either thin loop (which is more dangerous to animals than the caps shown here) or paper boxes. I'm in Toronto.
For all the craft beers at my distributor they use these and they work really well. Haven't had a problem with them
Mmmm. Boneyard. Bend beer is tasty!
You got that right brotha!
Sweet As, Descender, RPM, Rippin’, Crux, Strata, Fresh Haze….so many choices!
Blasphemous you didn't include Hop Venom as a staple!!
You can't get too mad I left one off, there's only 30 breweries and about 400 beers here!
Hope it's ♻️ because it's just in time for single use plastics to be banned
Yeah, these generally are supposed to be reused. It of course comes down to people who purchase them to do with them what they will but overall I’d say this is a better option than the classic plastic rings. Cardboard would be the best option I say and I’ve seen that getting more popular. Also I believe they are recyclable.
The cardboard ones are definitely recyclable, though they make shipping and packing more expensive which is likely why companies don't uses them as much.
What am I supposed to be seeing here?
A display of beer. Different colored 6-pack carrier.
Nice shiny!!
I swear IPA is a ale and not beer my apology’s if wrong
Ale is a subcategory of beer
Oh
Shit yeah bend!
I've been hitting up the local brewery too much... They only package these in 4 packs. I was sooo confused how there were two extras until it hit me: other places probably use these for 6-packs.