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- On the other extreme, single serving wine. This exists in Europe, but is hardly seen here. This is possibly because wine and beer are not sold like other beverages in Canada, but it's time. In Europe you might find yourself buying a beer or single serving wine with your street food. Oh yeah, we don't really do street food either...
It's only packaging folks!
The single serving size bottle, 187.5ml is actually deemed an illegal size to sell to the public by the liquor boards; and it can't even be offered as an on-pack size, either! It can only be sold to licensed establishments & sports arena's. Just another strange ruling by the all Governing boards. I don't see what harm this serving size can do to the mass public?
Its simple... After one, you might find you are satisfied and therefor don't want to make the trip for a second. We wouldn't want people paying less taxes, i mean drinking less, i mean.... ummm...
Tapsucker wrote:
- Cheap corporate beer. Isn't it time they moved to tetra packs or wine bag/box format? Seriously, will their customer care?
Hehehe, "I'm going to the store to get a bag of Molson!" But the carbonation might be a problem. I was kind of surprised when bubbas didn't catch on, but I think their main problem was that you got mostly foam for the first couple glasses you poured.
Ah, I was wondering how you'd keep a large bag of beer carbonated, especially near the end. Turns out their system adds CO2 to the beer after dispensing from the bag... like a soda machine. I could see it being practical for consumers for the same idea as bubbas, where you drink it all in one sitting (presumably shared).
It doesn't have to be decarbonated beer. Rogue is in the Keykeg which is carbonated and being dispensed widely across Ontario. The filling tube in the Keykeg is a rippled piece of plastic to prevent the bag from collapsing. Ingenious but way over engineered and way too much waste. The PETkeg is far more practical and much easier to recycle
All beer will be in something akin to this soon. Craft will lead the way as most of us don't have the budget to keep archaic stainless steel floats going. Europe is always 5 years ahead of the US and 10 ahead of Canada. Its just the way it is.
