Ask Lemmy

I am shocked that so many people are buying pre-made coffee.

Not that they're buying a cup of coffee at the diner, or getting some syrupy, coffee-flavored suger drink from Starbucks while out and about... but that a bunch of all y'all are buying pre-brewed coffee for your home. I honestly didn't realize so many people were doing this.

I mean, it's not even hard, unless you're doing some James Hoffman pour-over method, at which point you may as well admit you're doing it for the ritual. But brew a pot, put it in a thermos, and there's your liter of coffee.

Why? Just, why?

Buying anything every day is stupid. Just buy the finished product in a volume

Nah, nothing beasts fresh bread and pastries

You probably should ask that in your local community. Because I can buy 2l beer where I live.

Growlers come in 32oz and 64oz bottles. My old grocery store in NC used to sell them.

Cold brew coffee is probably the most logical to sell in volume, and it's available as well.

You can buy a 64z beer, which is two quarts, at many breweries in the US, and even refill a reusable glass jug called a growler to do it. That's close enough to two liters.

Subsequent question, why can't you sell pr store beer in plastic? I've never realized till this post that every beer I've ever seen is in a glass bottle, metal can or metal keg. Never in plastic.

If you make iced coffee with it its going to be fine.

If you make iced coffee, like, mixing stuff up with ice, I suspect that you're better off just getting coffee syrup, which is available, and lets you select how dilute you want the coffee. Doesn't make a lot of sense to ship large bottles of water around when you already have a sink.

Denmark here... We have 5liter beers

https://netpris.dk/ol/oltonder.html

Also, I brew 2 cups of coffee every morning although I do buy 1kg bags of coffee beans that last me quite some time!

Eastern european countries would like to have a word with you.

https://www.auchan.ro/bere-blonda-bucegi-225l/p

You can buy 2L beer containers in New Zealand, but they're a specialty item. Largest I've ever seen at the supermarket or bottle shop is 1L.

As for coffee, it's probably because our laws are weirdly restrictive on how much caffeine you can have in one drink. Energy drinks can't contain more than an equal amount of coffee, for example.

I can go to local brewery bar and ask them to fill a 2 litre canister for me

You can buy 1.75L of beer in East Asia, and 2L of some brands.

There's also baiju and soju sold in 2L (and maybe bigger) bottles

Carboy

You can get 2 liter bottles of cider in the UK but it all tastes like crap

I'm buying 2l bottles of beer at the convenience store and at the food store:

Ok it might be 1.6 l but almost.

And in smaller breweries you can get bottles like this: