Particularly beer. It’s a carbonated liquid. If anything getting the exact portion control you want would be even easier. No longer would there be temptation to round up the amount you want to drink. It would be less wasteful than bottles and more convenient than mini kegs. It would be more economical and would stay as carbonated as soda. About a third of the price of beer is the container. That math is based on looking at the cheapest bottled soda in a store.
And why not coffee? Just buy all the coffee you need at once with no steps needed. If you make iced coffee with it its going to be fine. Big coffee wants you to buy a product from them every day, because they can make more money from you. You aren’t buying your milk per drink? Why should you buy any liquid per drink or with extra packaging?
Buying anything every day is stupid. Just buy the finished product in a volume where you are taken care of for the week. It’s how you buy anything else. Products should be sold in a way where you can accomplish that with minimum packaging.
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Growlers come in 32oz and 64oz bottles. My old grocery store in NC used to sell them.
Cold brew coffee is probably the most logical to sell in volume, and it’s available as well.
I am shocked that so many people are buying pre-made coffee.
Not that they’re buying a cup of coffee at the diner, or getting some syrupy, coffee-flavored suger drink from Starbucks while out and about… but that a bunch of all y’all are buying pre-brewed coffee for your home. I honestly didn’t realize so many people were doing this.
I mean, it’s not even hard, unless you’re doing some James Hoffman pour-over method, at which point you may as well admit you’re doing it for the ritual. But brew a pot, put it in a thermos, and there’s your liter of coffee.
Why? Just, why?
I get iced coffee in a carton.
It’s inexpensive and I like it. End of story.
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Surely Europe in general. UK here and I have seen 2-3L of cider before. Pretty sure I have even seen them as a multipack. These days I go scrumping instead.
Denmark here… We have 5liter beers
https://netpris.dk/ol/oltonder.html
Also, I brew 2 cups of coffee every morning although I do buy 1kg bags of coffee beans that last me quite some time!
That’s a mini keg in the US. They’re talking about half that size which is the size of a 2L of soda here.
I am aware, but OP sounded like they couldn’t get containers large enough! We also have 2 Lit bottles and 3 lit cans
You can buy 2L beer containers in New Zealand, but they’re a specialty item. Largest I’ve ever seen at the supermarket or bottle shop is 1L.
As for coffee, it’s probably because our laws are weirdly restrictive on how much caffeine you can have in one drink. Energy drinks can’t contain more than an equal amount of coffee, for example.
You can buy a 64z beer, which is two quarts, at many breweries in the US, and even refill a reusable glass jug called a growler to do it. That’s close enough to two liters.
You can buy 1.75L of beer in East Asia, and 2L of some brands.
There’s also baiju and soju sold in 2L (and maybe bigger) bottles
Subsequent question, why can’t you sell pr store beer in plastic? I’ve never realized till this post that every beer I’ve ever seen is in a glass bottle, metal can or metal keg. Never in plastic.
You can get 2 liter bottles of cider in the UK but it all tastes like crap
If you’re buying two litres of cider, it’s not because you like cider.
I can go to local brewery bar and ask them to fill a 2 litre canister for me
Large beer containers are “rare” for the same reason large soda containers are rare: carbonization. If you store an opened bottle of beer for a few hours, it will go flat, killing part of the taste with it. Beer is even worse in this regard than soda. You want to finish the whole thing in one sitting for beer. Very few people consume 2 litres of beer in one sitting. … But … Every single self respecting bar has beer from the tap, right? That stuff doesn’t appear magically. It comes in kegs. You can buy those kegs from a wholesaler, or from the internet. These kegs work by inserting CO2 to pressurize it. So you will need CO2 tanks and a system to pressurize the whole thing. Not super hard to get, but not something you find in your supermarket either. But if you consume enough beer, it can absolutely be worth it to buy a tap, CO2 and kegs instead of bottles.
Can’t tell if this is for real.
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