"Slobby Don" > wrote in message
...
> Tom Wolper wrote:
> > news.verizon.net wrote:
> > The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had a longer story today (which might be
> > the one linked above, I haven't checked).
> >
> > http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04238/367224.stm
> >
> > ...
> > The bottle, which requires an opener, weighs less than 2 ounces empty
> > but contains about three times more aluminum than the traditional
> > aluminum beer can.
> > ...
>
> Requires an opener? R.I.P. idea--Americans are too lazy and only expect to
> use openers on the best of beers.

The aluminum bottle looks like nothing more than the latest cool novelty...

Besides, what's so wrong with aluminum cans that anyone needs to make
aluminum bottles? My favorite format is still the half liter can...

-'dreas