If you enjoy a cold beer, today is supposedly the day to knock one back, as canned beer celebrates its 75th birthday.
The first beer can was introduced by a brewing company from New Jersey back in 1935. It was a market test, which apparently proved successful, since American beer drinkers prefer cans over bottles, judging by numbers sold.
And if you’re interested, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, adult Americans drink 22 gallons of beer per person each year.
Since I hardly ever drink beer, I hope someone else is enjoying my 22 gallons. In fact, judging by how people drive in this town, I know they are.
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I don’t enjoy beer at all. I’ll have one, once in a rare while, if I’m with friends and that seems to be the only real option. But it’s rare that I detect much of a difference in taste from one brand to another.
There’s a restaurant near me that brews its own and they have varieties that supposedly introduce interesting flavors, but it’s the same kind of flavors described by wine snobs. In the end, all of them taste pretty much the same to me.
As for the cans vs. bottles point, I suspect that if they cost exactly the same, people would prefer a cold bottle over a cold can, but I could be wrong.