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From: cdshaw@alberta.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: stubby beer bottles
Message-ID: <125@pembina.alberta.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Nov-86 16:58:35 EST
Article-I.D.: pembina.125
Posted: Thu Nov  6 16:58:35 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Nov-86 17:15:15 EST
References: <12157@watnot.UUCP> <1986Nov6.113608.10465@utcs.uucp>
Reply-To: cdshaw@pembina.UUCP (Chris Shaw)
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Keywords: stubby beer bottles

In article <1986Nov6.113608.10465@utcs.uucp> oroth@utcs.UUCP (John Roth) writes:
>	The stubbies may have been ugly to some (They were also easier to 
>clean.) and due for replacement, but they should have been replaced by a
>new standard bottle.  The current situation only harms the recycling effort.
>I would rather see the breweries spend more on the product and less on the
>packaging.  Maybe that's why I make my own. :-)

Actually, this brings up an interesting point. Before I moved, a friend & I made
beer, and the non-twist-off tall bottles have a significant advantage: They
are much easier to cap than the stubby. In fact, we had a stubby blow up
on us when we couldn't quite get the angle right with our mechanical capper.

So I guess stubbies are not quite ALL they're cracked up to be. (har de har har)

On the other hand, some bottles are so tall (particularly the Amstel bottles,
and of course Brick) that it's very hard to put the cases of empties under 
lounge furniture like couches, benches, etc....

Of course, all this pales in comparison to the silliness of the non-availability
of the 24-bottle-case in Alberta. Surely a modern tragedy if there ever was one.

Just another Ontario boy dicing with death in the West....

Chris Shaw    cdshaw@alberta
University of Alberta
CatchPhrase: Bogus as HELL !