MillerCoors files patent for thermal barrier liner
While we’re looking at patents…MillerCoors has filed a patent earlier this year for a thermal barrier liner. What is interesting is that the company has not only issued designs for how this liner would be used in cans but also 6-pack holders and pitchers.
A thermal barrier liner maintains a beverage within a container at a desired temperature. The liner may include a closed cell substrate, a base layer having gas or liquid filled microcapsules, a base layer having microencapsulated solid-liquid phase change material, or combinations thereof. In other emobodiments, an integral cooling element incorporates solid/liquid phase change material. The cooling element can either be attached to the exterior of the container, the interior of the container, or free-floating within the container.
They are literally trying to keep that beer ice cold at all costs.
via Google Patents.
Breweries: MillerCoors
Only way to numb the tongue so the stuff is actually drinkable.
Wonder how this would affect the recycle-ability of the can?
Wouldn’t something like this also make the beer harder to chill?
Here’s an idea…make better beer that doesn’t need to stay “as cold as the Rockies”…
Nope. There is nothing they can do to make me want to buy their beer. Nothing, no way.
COMING SOON! Buy one 12 pack of Coors get one walk in fridge free!