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Canteen designed as a container for beer

Array of beer bottles

A beer bottle is a bottle designed as a container for beer. Such designs vary greatly in size and shape, only the drinking glass commonly is dark-brown or green to reduce spoilage from lite, specially ultraviolet.^[ane]

The most widely established alternatives to glass containers for beer in retail sales are beverage cans and aluminium bottles; for larger volumes kegs are in common use.

Bottling lines [edit]

Bottling lines are product lines that make full beer into bottles on a large calibration.

The process is typically equally follows:

1. Filling a bottle in a filling machine (filler) typically involves drawing beer from a holding tank
2. Capping the bottle, labeling it
3. Packing the bottles into cases or cartons

Many smaller breweries ship their bulk beer to large facilities for contract bottling—though some will bottle by manus.

The first step in bottling beer is depalletising, where the empty bottles are removed from the original packaging delivered from the manufacturer, so that private bottles may be handled. The bottles may then be rinsed with filtered water or air, and may have carbon dioxide injected into them in endeavor to reduce the level of oxygen within the bottle. The bottle and then enters a "filler" which fills the canteen with beer and may also inject a small amount of inert gas (CO₂ or nitrogen) on summit of the beer to disperse oxygen, as O₂ tin ruin the quality of the product past oxidation.

Side by side the bottle enters a labelling machine ("labeller") where a label is applied. The product is then packed into boxes and warehoused, set up for sale.^[ii]

Depending on the magnitude of the bottling endeavour, there are many unlike types of bottling mechanism available. Liquid level machines fill bottles and so they appear to be filled to the same line on every bottle, while volumetric filling machines fill each bottle with exactly the same amount of liquid. Overflow force per unit area fillers are the most popular machines with potable makers, while gravity filling machines are almost cost effective. In terms of automation, inline filling machines are most popular, simply rotary machines are much faster albeit much more expensive.^[3]

Shape and size [edit]

Stubby and steinie [edit]

Australian 375 ml stubbie

A short glass bottle used for beer is generally chosen a stubby, or originally a steinie. Shorter and flatter than standard bottles, stubbies pack into a smaller space for transporting. The steinie was introduced in the 1930s past Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company and derived their name from their similarity to the shape of a beer stein, which was emphasized in marketing.^[iv] The bottles are sometimes made with thick glass so that the bottle tin can be cleaned and reused before beingness recycled. The chapters of a stubby is generally somewhere between 330 and 375 ml (eleven.six and thirteen.two imp fl oz; 11.ii and 12.7 U.South. fl oz); the Canadian stubby bottle is traditionally 341 ml (11.5 U.S. fl oz; 12.0 imp fl oz), while the U.Southward. longneck was 355 ml (12.0 U.Southward. fl oz; 12.5 imp fl oz). Some of the expected advantages of stubby bottles are: ease of handling; less breakage; lighter in weight; less storage space; and lower heart of gravity.^[4]

After the terminate of Prohibition in the U.S. in 1933, many breweries began marketing beer in steel cans. The drinking glass industry responded by devising brusque bottles with piffling necks, nicknamed stubbies, and types with curt necks were called steinies. Capacities varied, with 12oz being the nigh common size used for soft drinks. The steinie dominated in the U.S. past 1950, and the cervix became longer, such equally seen with the familiar Budweiser canteen. Stubbies were pop in Canada until the 1980s. Today, standard SP Lager from Papua New Guinea is one of the few beers still sold in 12oz neckless stubbies. The U.South. steinie shape now dominates for small beer bottles the globe over, in sizes from one-half-pint to the European 500ml. The word stubbie is now just in mutual utilize in Australia and Canada.

Stubbies are used extensively in Europe, and were used almost exclusively in Canada from 1962 to 1986 as office of a standardization effort intended to reduce breakage, and the cost of sorting bottles when they were returned past customers. Due to their nostalgic value, stubbies were reintroduced by a number of Canadian craft brewers in the early 2000s. In the U.S., stubbies have generally fallen out of favour, with only a few brands nevertheless using them such equally the Session Lager past the Total Canvas Brewing Visitor, Switchback Brewing Co^[v] in Burlington, Vermont, US and Cherry-red Stripe, a Jamaican brand import. Coors Brewing Company uses the stubby form for nostalgic packaging of Coors Banquet.

Belgium [edit]

Belgian beer is commonly packaged in 330 ml (xi.6 imp fl oz; eleven.ii U.South. fl oz) bottles in four or six packs, or in 750 ml (26.4 imp fl oz; 25.4 U.S. fl oz) bottles similar to those used for Champagne. Some beers, usually lambics and fruit lambics are as well bottled in 375 ml (xiii.2 imp fl oz; 12.vii U.S. fl oz) servings.

Britain [edit]

Through the latter office of the 20th century, nearly British brewers used a standard blueprint of bottle, known as the London Brewers' Standard. This was in chocolate-brown glass, with a conical medium neck in the pint and with a rounded shoulder in the one-half-pint and nip sizes. Pints, divers as 568 ml (20.0 imp fl oz; 19.2 U.South. fl oz), and half-pints, or 284 ml (10.0 imp fl oz; 9.half-dozen U.S. fl oz) were the almost mutual, simply some brewers too bottled in nip (1/3-pint) and quart (2-pint) sizes. It was for example mostly barley wines that were bottled in nips, and Midlands breweries such as Shipstone of Nottingham that bottled in quarts. This standardisation simplified the automation of bottling and fabricated information technology easier for customers to recycle bottles every bit they were interchangeable. They carried a eolith charge, which in the 1980s rose to seven pence for a pint and five pence for a half-pint. Some brewers however used individual canteen designs: among these were Samuel Smith, which used an embossed clear bottle, and Scottish and Newcastle, which used a clear bottle for their Newcastle Dark-brown Ale (both designs survive in the 500 ml (16.9 U.Southward. fl oz; 17.half dozen imp fl oz) size today). Other brewers such as Timothy Taylor had used their ain embossed bottles and rare examples continued to be reused into the 1980s. During the 1980s the industry turned away from refillable bottles and U.k. beer bottles are now all 1-trip, and virtually are 500 ml (sixteen.9 U.Due south. fl oz; 17.vi imp fl oz) or 330 ml (11.2 U.S. fl oz; 11.half-dozen imp fl oz) in book. The compulsory high recycled-content of these bottles makes them very dark and the lack of temper makes them chip hands when beingness opened.^{[ citation needed ]}

Netherlands (pijpje) [edit]

Most beer producers in the Netherlands sell their beers in a chocolate-brown 300 ml (x.6 imp fl oz; 10.i U.S. fl oz) bottle. Its official name is Bruin Nederlands Retour CBK-fles (Brown Dutch Return CBK Bottle), with CBK continuing for Centraal Brouwerij Kantoor, the former proper noun of the Dutch trade association of larger breweries, Nederlandse Brouwers.^[6] The name is abbreviated as BNR-fles, simply the canteen is more than commonly known as pijpje [nl] (piddling pipe).

The total length of the bottle is 207 mm, with a conical cervix of about one-third of that length. The bottles deport a 10-cent eolith. The breweries share a pool of re-usable bottles of the same blazon.

Germany [edit]

In Germany, approximately 99% of beer bottles are reusable deposit bottles^[7] and are either 330 ml (11.6 imp fl oz; 11.2 U.Southward. fl oz) or 500 ml (17.6 imp fl oz; 16.9 U.Southward. fl oz). At any given time, an estimated ii billion beer bottles are in circulation in Germany, each of which sees an average of 36 reuses.^{[7] [eight]} The deposit for beer bottles sealed with crown corks is €0.08; for bottles with flip-tiptop closures, the deposit is €0.15.

The Euro bottle was the main shape in use until the 1980s, when many breweries began to switch over to NRW and Longneck bottles, both of which are available as 330ml and 500ml bottles. The market place leader is the NRW bottle with a market share of 39%, followed by Longneck at 33%.^[8] Many smaller, traditional breweries have retained the Euro bottle every bit part of their corporate identity, specially Augustiner, Tegernseer, and Schlenkerla.

• Common German bottles

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  330ml "Steinie" bottle

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  500ml Euro bottle

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  500ml NRW Canteen

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  330ml NRW Bottle, also chosen "Vichy" bottle

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  330ml Longneck canteen

Longneck, Industry Standard Bottle (ISB) or North American longneck [edit]

A 12-oz Manufacture Standard Bottle (left) compared to a xl-oz bottle (right)

A North American longneck is a type of beer bottle with a long cervix. It is known as the standard longneck bottle or industry standard canteen (ISB). The ISB longnecks have a uniform capacity, superlative, weight and diameter and can exist reused on average 16 times. The U.S. ISB longneck is 355 ml (12.v imp fl oz; 12.0 U.S. fl oz). In Canada, in 1992, the large breweries all agreed to utilize a 341 ml (12.0 imp fl oz; 11.v U.Southward. fl oz) longneck bottle of standard pattern (named AT2), thus replacing the traditional stubby canteen and an assortment of brewery-specific long-necks which had come into use in the mid-1980s.

Large bottles [edit]

A 650 ml or 22oz "bomber".

In the U.s. and Canada, large bottles are 22 U.S. fl oz (650.6 ml; 22.nine imp fl oz), or one-sixth of a U.s. gallon (colloquially chosen a "bomber"or a "deuce, deuce" or "double deuce"). Some breweries besides cull to employ 500 ml (sixteen.9 U.S. fl oz; 17.6 imp fl oz) bottles, oftentimes for smaller batches of beer.

The European and Australian standard large bottle is 750-milliliter (25.4 U.S. fl oz; 26.four imp fl oz) and is also used occasionally in Canada. In South Africa they are referred to as a "quart"; in Australia they are known colloquially every bit a "longneck","king brown", "tallie", "largie" or but a "bottle". A liter and 1.25 50 are besides in use.

Forty [edit]

A "forty" is American slang for a forty-U.S.-fluid-ounce (ane,200 ml; 42 imp fl oz) bottle unremarkably used for cheaper varieties of beer and of malt liquor,^[9] though some 32-U.S.-fluid-ounce (950 ml; 33 imp fl oz) bottles are erroneously called forties.

Growler [edit]

A growler () is a glass, ceramic, or stainless steel jug used to transport draught beer in the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil and other countries. They are commonly sold at breweries and brewpubs every bit a means to sell accept-out arts and crafts beer.

In the U.s., a growler is half United states gallon (1.9 litres; 0.42 royal gallons). Less commonly tin be plant "growlerettes" or "howlers", which are one-half-growlers, or 32 U.S. fl oz.

Modest bottles [edit]

There are besides smaller bottles, chosen nips,^[10] ponies (Usa), cuartitos (Mexico, "small fourth", in reference to the larger 355 ml media "half"), throwdowns or grenades (Australia), amongst other names.

In the United States, the size of these bottles is usually vii U.Southward. fl oz (207 ml), and are similar to the size of original Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola bottles. The term pony dates to the 19th century,^[11] and is due to the atomic size,^[12] being used earlier for a pony drinking glass, and similarly for a pony keg. The best-known brands of ponies are Rolling Rock (pony introduced 1939?) and Miller High Life (pony introduced 1972),^{[13] [fourteen]} and the 7 oz size of Rolling Rock likely contributed to the standardization on this size. Other major brands (Budweiser, Coors, Miller) are besides regionally bachelor in 7 oz bottles; these were introduced in the early 1970s, around the fourth dimension of Miller Loftier Life existence so-packaged. More recently, Bud Light Lime has started to be sold in ponies, called "Limeys".

The popularity of Rolling Rock ponies has led to the folk etymology that "pony" is from the Rolling Stone equus caballus logo. This is incorrect: the term "pony of beer" in the United states of america predates Rolling Rock (introduced 1939) by over 50 years, and advertizement for Rolling Rock from the 1950s uses the term "pony bottle" generically, stating "... Rolling Rock is the Largest Selling seven oz. Pony Bottle of Premium Beer in Pennsylvania".^[15]

Amidst Mexican beers, Corona sells vii U.S. fl oz (207 ml) ponies and 7.1 U.S. fl oz (210 ml) cuartitos, branded as Coronita, from the Castilian diminutive -ita.^{[sixteen] [17]} The American-market vii oz. ponies come up in vi-packs and the Mexican market 210 ml cuartitos come in boxes of 12.

In Australia, a express range of beers are available in a 250 ml (8.8 imp fl oz; 8.5 U.S. fl oz) canteen,^[18] nicknamed a throwdown or grenade.

In the U.s., pocket-size bottles are about popular for the on-premises market, where they are sold by the bucketful.^[19] The motivation in the 1970s was to target lighter drinkers, and to ensure that the lager beer stayed cold until finished. The market for beer in small bottles is smaller than that in regular size bottles, which crusade added difficulties and expense: the bottles themselves are harder to source, and require either a separate bottling line or retooling the bottling line between runs.^[20] As a result, Usa craft breweries only rarely bottle in small-scale bottles; temporary examples include Flying Dog Brewery (2007–2009) and Rogue Ales^{[10] [21]} (2009–2011, using actress bottles from Flying Dog).

"Darwin Chubby" [edit]

The Large Stubby at Larrimah

A Darwin Stubby refers to several especially large beer canteen sizes in Australia. Information technology was first introduced in April 1958 with an 80-majestic-fluid-ounce (two,270 ml; 76.9 U.S. fl oz) capacity.^[22] The ii-liter (70.four imp fl oz; 67.6 U.S. fl oz) Darwin Stubby is available by NT Draught in the Northern Territory. The ii.25-liter (76.one U.Southward. fl oz; 79.ii imp fl oz) Darwin Stubby has an iconic,^[23] if kitsch, status in Australian folklore.^[24]

"Caguama" and "Ballena" bottles [edit]

In Mexico, caguama and ballena are pop names for a 940 ml (33.ane imp fl oz; 31.8 U.Due south. fl oz) beer canteen. The Mexican beer brands which are sold in these bottles include Tecate, Carta Blanca, Sol, Indio, Victoria, Corona Familiar and Pacífico. The name "caguama" refers to the Loggerhead sea turtle, which is called "caguama" in Spanish, and is used more often than not in central and eastern Mexico.^[25] There are larger sizes of beer canteen chosen a super caguama or a caguamon. The proper name ballena is Spanish for whale, and is mostly used in the northern Pacific coast.

Gallery [edit]

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  Two pijpjes

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  Darwin Stubbies in several variations

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Closure [edit]

Bottled beer is sold with several types of bottle cap, but almost oftentimes with crown caps, also known as crown seals. Some beers (for example Grolsch) are sold in "beugel" style bottles, known as "flip-top" or "swing peak" in some English speaking countries. A number of beers are sold finished with a cork and muselet (or muzzle), similar to champagne closures. These closures were largely superseded by the crown cap at the end of the 19th century, just survive in premium markets. Many larger beers, including well-nigh forties and some growlers, use spiral caps due to their resealing design.

Gallery [edit]

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  Crown cap, unopened

• Video of homebrewers bottling beer using crown caps

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  Twist off beer canteen cap, unopened

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  Swing top beer canteen closure, unopened

Canteen fermentation [edit]

Some beers undergo a fermentation in the bottle, giving natural carbonation.^[26] These beers are commonly referred to equally bottle-conditioned. They are bottled with a viable yeast population in break and to start what may be a 2nd or 3rd fermentation. If at that place is no residual fermentable sugar left, carbohydrate and or wort may exist added in a procedure known as priming. The resulting fermentation generates CO₂ that is trapped in the bottle, remaining in solution and providing natural carbonation. Bottle-conditioned beers may be either filled unfiltered direct from the fermentation or conditioning tank, or filtered and and so reseeded with yeast.^[27]

Use equally weapons [edit]

Beer bottles are sometimes used every bit makeshift clubs, for instance in bar fights. As with pint glasses, the use of glass bottles as weapons is known as glassing. Pathologists adamant in 2009 that beer bottles are potent enough to crack human skulls, which requires an bear upon energy of betwixt xiv and 70 joules, depending on the location. Empty beer bottles shatter at 40 joules, while full bottles shatter at but 30 joules because of the pressure level of the carbonated beer inside the canteen.^[28] A exam performed by the television prove MythBusters suggested that full bottles are significantly more dangerous than empty bottles. They ended that full bottles inflict more than damage in terms of concussion and skull fracture. However, they found that both full and empty bottles do the aforementioned amount of scalp impairment.

As with pint spectacles, the main solution to glassing with bottles is not to dispense glass bottles where there is risk of fights or accidents, most only either using plastic spectacles or plastic bottles (or aluminium cans).

Lightstruck beer [edit]

Lightstruck, or "skunked" or "skunky", beer has been exposed to ultraviolet and visible low-cal. The light causes riboflavin to react with and break down isohumulones, chemicals that contribute to the bitterness of the beer and are derived from the hops. A molecule resulting from a subsequent chain of reactions, 3-methylbut-2-ene-1-thiol, is very similar chemically and in olfactory property to the musk-borne mercaptans that are a skunk's natural defences.^[29] It has besides been identified as the chief odorant in cannabis that contributes to its skunk-like aroma.^[30]

In some cases, such as Miller Loftier Life, a hops extract that does not have isohumulones is used to biting the beer so it cannot be "lightstruck". A dark dark-brown glass bottle gives some protection to the beer, but green and clear glass bottles offering virtually no protection at all.^[31]

There are likewise other solutions available to prevent beer bottled in clear and green glass from becoming skunked or calorie-free-struck, such equally taller walls on six-pack carriers, which is common with craft beers and highlighted in Samuel Adams marketing.

See besides [edit]

• Aluminum bottle
• Aluminum can
• Beer in Australia
• Drinkable can
• Box wine
• Container-deposit legislation
• Glass container manufacture
• Widget (beer)
• Wine bottle

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Farther reading [edit]

• Colin S. Burns, Arne Heyeric, Malcolm D. Due east. Forbes, (2001) "Mechanism for Germination of the Lightstruck Flavor in Beer Revealed by Fourth dimension-Resolved Electron Paramagnetic Resonance"
• Richard Pozdrik, Felicity A. Roddick, Peter J. Rogers, and Thang Nguyen, (2006) "Spectrophotometric Method for Exploring 3-Methyl-2-butene-ane-thiol (MBT) Formation in Lager"

External links [edit]

• Article on stubbies which mentions the newer longnecks.
• Drinking glass Manufacturers' marks & logos seen on glass containers, including beer, soda, & other bottles -- Primarily American)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_bottle

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