First to use the innovative container was Sapporo Breweries last April, followed by Kirin a short time later.
This container is positioned as an alternative to the plastic beer bottles that U.S. and European beer companies have embraced over the past few years. Like those plastic bottles, the aluminum bottle is light, unbreakable and reclosable. It also has the mouth feel of a bottle, a feature that many beer drinkers miss in aluminum cans.
The container is superior to a plastic beer bottle, says Daiwa and its two brewery customers, on at least two counts. First, it’s lighter. More important, its recyclability is a proven fact. Unlike plastic beer bottles, there are no polypropylene closures or multi-material sidewalls to confuse the recycling industry. The roll-on tamper-evident cap is made of the same easily recycled aluminum as the two-piece bottle.
