Do you like wood-aged beers? What about wood-fiber beers? Looking to sustainability, Carlsberg premiered the Green Fiber Bottle which they have been working on with the company ecoXpac who have bullet pointed the bottle attributes on their website:
- Optional design of bottle with either screw cap or single-use seal. And fits in with any existing filling plants.
- Made from paper pulp, which also is renewable resources.
- New patented production technology guarantees high level of energy saving – up until 80% compared with conventional moulded pulp production.
- After use the bottle can enter into recycling systems on equal terms with cardboard and paper, or decompose directly in nature.
- The production unit is small and compact, thus it can be transported and put up wherever in the world the bottles are to be filled.
Admirable, yes. But this country struggled to use cans because of early versions that affected the beer (oh, and association with big beer that were considered negative). And the elephant in the room is how will this protect the beer from light? Gotta be better than green or clear glass, right?
So I don’t see how this bottle will be more than a novelty. Though it would be really cool to see an L.A. Beer Week beer packaged this way. Would make quite the collectors item. Tip of the Hat to the Brookston Beer Bulletin for posting about this earlier.