Why does drink taste better from a bottle as opposed to a can or plastic?

Question

How does the container that you drink from affect the taste, or is it subliminal. The same beer can taste better from a bottle than a can, or in a glass as opposed to a plastic beaker. Is the drink 'tainted' by the vessel from which it is consumed? The same seems to go for food too.

Answer 1

The container does not affect the taste but the taste buds on your tongue pick up the metallic taste from cans when you drink from them and this gets mixed with the taste of the drink. Glass containers have no taste discernable to the taste buds.

Answer 2

Drink in a can does not get tainted with any taste as the cans are sprayed with a layer of a tasteless chemical internally,if you did get a taste from a can you would know because it would be a metallic sort of taste.Plastic bottles do not got tainted like a 3yr old's drinking cup that has that funny smell because they are made from different plastic polymers which have different properties so they will not even smell.As for beer in a bottle or a can do they even do the same beer in a bottle as in a can.
eg:fosters = can, fosters ice = bottle,can not get them the other way round so they would taste different.

Answer 3

I dont know but it's true, material must have something to do with it. Tea tastes better in fine china than earthenware, pop tastes better from a bottle than a can (i can taste the metal in cans) and some foods will defo react if placed on metal instead of porcelain, it tastes different also if placed on plastic. I can smell/taste the plastic in coffee for instance. Chips taste better if they've been wrapped in paper, if they're put in those polystyrene containers they dont taste the same. The list is endless. I wonder if manufacturers ever take that into consideration when they make them.

Answer 4

I absolutely agree. There is a habit here where I live of serving you water in a metal "glass". I cannot drink it.It makes the water tastes awful...and Pepsi or Coke from one of those things? Ugh! Takes all the pleasure out of the calories!!!

Cans probably leak trace or minsicule amounts of Aluminium into the drink and plastic starts to degrade from the moment it first feels daylight .

Answer 5

If you lick a can, it usually tastes a bit nasty. same goes for smelling a plastic bottle. These things obviously find their way into the things you eat and drink. I've never known glass to have a taste or smell.

Answer 6

A glass bottle does not bleed into the drink, plastic and metal containers do.
A lot of toxins are released from plastic bottles into the fluid so they are the worst vessel to drink from

Answer 7

Hey,Redrobin you pinched my answer!. Yes, if I can, I always insist on a fine bone china cup for my tea, simply because I like it. Another fallacy which I husbanded for years was ---'always milk in first' till I found out that this originated from the time when a fine china cup would crack due to the heat from the tea.The milk would cool the tea just enough to prevent this from happening. In much the same way as the tradition of putting a tea-spoon in the cup before pouring.
As for drinking beer from a can,how do you stop it from running out of the sides of your mouth?

Answer 8

Bottled beer tastes better than canned beer or beer from a plastic glass. You are dead right.

Answer 9

Wow! you're so good. i like Coke yet I in user-friendly terms ever purchase cans. i understand that's greater high priced in spite of if it tastes lots greater effective. i think of plastic bottles are a con! in spite of the fact which you seem getting greater effective value one million) they style worse 2) as quickly as you open the bottle the fizz starts to vanish. So after some hours, in spite of in case you screw close the bottle tightly, you are able to style the version!

Answer 10

I disagree - i think it must be subliminal. I don't notice any difference when having a drink. As long as it is alcohol I don't care what it tastes like!!!!