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'Tall blonde' bottle proves versatile

Southerners have a new beer option from Carolina Beer & Beverage, LLC, a regional craft brewer in Mooresville, NC: Tall blonde, a 16-oz longneck PET barrier bottle containing a light pilsner-style brew.

Pw 16558 Carolina

The new stock bottle is from Constar, the plastic packaging subsidiary of Crown, Cork & Seal Co. (Philadelphia, PA). It comprises PET/Oxbar™oxygen scavenger/ PET (see Packaging World, Nov. ’01, p. 2, or packworld.com/go/abita). Oxbar is a scavenger that includes nylon. The bottle is topped by a 28-mm screw cap with a scavenger/barrier liner supplied by Crown’s Closure Division. It also features a full-wrap polymeric label, flexo-printed in five colors and glue-applied by Constar.

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