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05-14-2013, 01:54 PM
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Sage
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Join Date: Dec 2011
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Originally Posted by CFrance
In 2004 Pittsburgh Brewing Company partnered with Alcoa to produce Iron City Beer in aluminum bottles. They were supposed to stay cold as much as 50 minutes longer than the cans, as they had three times the amount of aluminum. They charged $1 extra per case. Before that, Heinekin had a limited edition run.
I still have an aluminum bottle of Iron City in the glass-door cookbook shelves in my condo kitchen in MI. It says Save Our City on it, which was how they began marketing them on billboards for some reason.
You can also thank PBC for the pull-top opening beer can (1962--also developed with Alcoa) and the twist-off bottle top. Who knew? And I thought we were only good for ketchup and pickles... and the Steelers, of course.
Enjoy your beer, golfingnut.  |
Oh, I forgot...
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