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Old 12-05-2004, 09:40 PM
Ken Anderson
 
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Re: What is ment by PET?

"Nate & Laurie Benzing" <benzings@netins.net> wrote in message
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> I am new to the brewing thing and loving it. I just started my first "real"
> batch... while I wait I have been reading and learning. What is PET?
> PET and CANS are talked about in questions asked by SWINGERS in his "beer
> kit sugars" questions.
>
> Cheers!
> Nate
>
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Polyethylene Terephthalate. Plastic bottles, in other words. The debate is
whether or not they are permeable enough to allow oxygen into the beer, thus
ruining it via oxidation.


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