Bottled V's Canned BEER on trips

I'm with Still.............. for the exact same reason. But if you're worried about running out, you need a bigger fridge! But seriously, if you have a 6 pack in and replace a can everytime you take one out you won't have a prob.
The only down fall is that sometimes the cans rub a hole through and leak bear everywhere so place them randomly in the fridge or wrap them in paper or something.

Leroy

One way tp prevent the cans from rubbing through is to take them all out of the carton and place a thick rubber band top and bottom of each can to prevent them from rubbing together.
Use the rubber bands like Aust Post use on the letter bundles.
Works for me over corrugations, etc.
Wine bladders are also a problem with them rubbing through against the carton, so take them out and wrap them in a tea towel or similar to prevent this chaffing action and replace in the carton again.

Geoff.

Squizzy I have never heard of wine casks causing any problems. I always carry red wine in casks and never had an issue, and never ever heard of anybody having an issue. Wine bladders are so incredibly tough, I just cannot see it been a problem with cardboard. I fail to see there could be sufficient movement of a wine bladder to cause chaffing.

On a recent trip my mate had the experience of a leaking bladder in a 2L cask of port, it had been abraded by the cardboard box.
We had travelled over some pretty corrugated roads though.

Well David Au, I am afraid it does happen when you travel some of our great country through the corrugated roads that we have.

I am talking serious corrugations for this to happen, not the ordinary run of the mill stuff like Birdsville Track, Oodnadatta Track, etc.

Geoff.

That's fine if you like spirits!

Leroy

That's exactly what I take. However I prefer orange soft drink to accompany my vodka. Beer tastes like shyza anyway.

Danzka vodka comes in an aluminium bottle. Chills fast and is virtually unbreakable.

R.

I've never heard of that one but if is a premix then I prefer to buy a bottle of vodka and a bottle of softdrink for $30-35 all up. Instead of $12 for 4 small drinks. I spose you could always pour the vodka into a plastic bottle but I never have.

It's a pretty good vodka. Tastes like absolute and is about the same price, and it does chill well in the aluminium bottle so it's great for camping. Also FYI if you drink it straight (chilled) you don't get hangovers. Trust me:).

R.

Funny how this belief has carried over from the bash, burn and bury days. Aluminium, alfoil, plastic etc won't melt away to nothing, they simply reduce in volume and burn off any volatiles, some plastics being quite toxic. The number of camp fires we see with blobs of Al sitting in the bottom are everywhere. Not having a go at you as you say you pick up the unburt remains but not everyone does.

and they stay colder longer

Drink faster... :P

sniff, sniff...sniff
my commiserations Captain, that is quite distressing. Hope you had some backup. There is something about losing beer that really hurts.
Mat sent me a photo of a semi that had lost its Grolsch all over the blacktop, that was tough.

I homebrew in plastic bottles as well. You can purchase Coopers plastic 740ML (long necks). 30 of them for one batch, equivalent to about 5 dozen cans. Only problem is that I have to bring them back.

If I'm not carrying my onw, and if I'm camping close to a shop, bottles. If I'm camping away from a shop, cans.

Home brew usually tastes better that commecial beers when not that cold.

Cheers,

Smocky.

bigfella
Think I'll home brew. Any tips on set-up and method, or just go out and buy Coopers set-up?
thanks
EV700

That's all music to my ears bigfella.

I agree totally. The Germans must laugh at what we drink. Some of the premium's aren't too bad and I'll have a Coopers any day.

I agree totally with temperature too. Goof thing about homebrew (and other good commercial beers) is that if it's not that cold, it's still pleasant to drink. With a VB, if it's a warm day, you pretty much have to skull it before it warms up a bit.

In response to ev700, I reckon go buy yourself the Coopers Home Brew starter pack and you can't go wrong. Start simple and don't try any tricks until you have a lot of experience. And whatever you use, wash it twice.

Smocky
Thanks
EV700

bigfella
Tks will do.
EV700

PaulJ
Thank you
EV700

whic could have lead me to my next question> what do you class as a 'decent' beer?

me - anything cold (except VB)

If I drink Light (yeah , yeah , thats NOT drinking beer) , then I prefer Sterling , which is only in Bottles AFAIK.

Hanh in cans gets a run from time to time.

Or the old standby . . . Tooheys Draught.

Julian - keep an eye out for Coopers "Dr Tim's".

It's Coopers Pale Ale in a can... best of both worlds!

Cheers.

Yep....second that DP.

Coopers put Pale Ale in a can, but it tasted slightly different so they rebadged it as Dr. Tims. Good marketing hey!

Like a few before I hit the Red.

Of course we all only drink alchohol in moderation, Willie, not to "get off our collective faces". You are correct if one was to take designer drugs with oneself it would certainly save space but one probably would still need the fridge for when one got those hunger pangs.

Think Ill stick to the old adage of "a carton per man per day" ,at least the drug called alcholic beverage was tried and made legal before even Noah was a babe in arms,, Have a MERRY Christmass ,or a MERRY holiday season ,which ever one cares to follow.

Bob,

at the risk of either offending you or giving you a heart-attack, I have a solution.

We like decent grape juice as well, but sometimes decant wine into a suitable container, like clean PET bottles. No problems if drinking relatively soon.

Wouldn't do it with a decent Hensche, but for most others it's fine.

Hope I haven't scared you too much at the though of wine from plastic bottles. (Remember too, that some people still think wine needs to be corked when the screw tops are actually far better for the intended purpose).

Cheers (and merry drinking),

Smocky.

Smocky,
I am definitely with you on the Stelvin closures. Why don't they all do it? Decanting to a sealable plastic container might be worth a look. We generally allow one bottle of red per person per day, so after a week away with four on board we have 28 bottles, which is a lot of glass to drag around.