The other day, I was at a beer store's casher to buy a pack of redstripe beer, somebody behind me told me about "stubby bottle".
She said that the "stubby bottle" was popular in 70s, now they are not common and the style is sort of nostalgic.
According to wikipedia,
" A short glass bottle used for beer is generally called a
stubby. Shorter and flatter than standard bottles, stubbies pack into a smaller space for transporting. The bottles are sometimes made with thick glass so that the bottle can be cleaned and reused before being
recycled.
Stubbies are used extensively in Europe, and were used almost exclusively in Canada from 1962 to 1986 as part of a standardization effort intended to reduce breakage, and the cost of sorting bottles when they were returned by customers. Due to their nostalgic value, stubbies were reintroduced by a number of Canadian craft brewers in the early 2000s. In the U.S., stubbies have generally fallen out of favour, with only a few brands still using them such as the Session
Lager by the
Full Sail Brewing Company, and
Red Stripe, a Jamaican brand import.
(I short cut some sentences from actual article)
Here's some images of retro bottles - they look interesting.
Do you think I talked about beer so often?
Yes, I love beer!
