Beer in aluminum bottles on the way - keeps cold for an hour longer

[Kadie]

Beer in aluminum bottles on the way

CHARLES SHEEHAN, AP Business writer
Tuesday, August 24, 2004


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(08-24) 17:20 PDT PITTSBURGH (AP) --

How much would you pay for a bottle of beer that stays cold nearly an hour longer?

Pittsburgh Brewing Co., maker of Iron City Beer, is asking an additional $1 per case.

The brewery has partnered with Alcoa Inc., the world's largest aluminum maker, to produce aluminum bottles that keep beer colder for as much as 50 minutes longer than a glass bottle, Alcoa officials said.

About 20,000 cases of the new aluminum bottle beer are en route to as many as 28 states and should be on shelves this week, Alcoa and Pittsburgh Brewing said Tuesday.

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[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Now...

We are talking the important stuff! Can a Nobel Prize be far behind? ;-)

[Trillo]

2. Are they using "transparent aluminum"? Is "synthahol" on the way?

[ChoralScholar]

3. kick ass...

we have a huge Alcoa plant here in Russellville. I can't wait for the ensuing rage when people get wind of beer bottles(cans) being made in a VERY dry county.

[soothsayer]

4. Hey, they've got better than that. What about the beer cans that instantly

COOL the beer as soon as you open them(takes a minute maybe). They're test marketing them in the UK of all places, even tho they are a US invention.

[Kadie]

5. Cool. Won't have to worry about putting beer in the freezer anymore.

[soothsayer]

6. Correct! Maybe it takes a minute or so, but you won't have to lug a

cooler with you to the beach, etc.

[AngryAmish]

7. This may change my life

Most bars I go to do not have the wide-mouth bottle. Yet it is the finest device manufactured by man in history. Now, it may have been topped.

God is good.

[EstimatedProphet]

8. Yummy

Now we can have beer in bottles that tastes like aluminum...

[Bozita]

9. I've never had a beer last anywhere near an hour