Dorada Aluminum Bottle

Dorada Aluminum Bottle

I just had to post about some beautiful aluminum bottles, after I saw the rather ugly aluminum bottles launched by Pepsi, which I wrote about previously.

Compañía Cervecera de Canarias (Canary Island Beer Company), part of the SAB Miller Group, launched a limited edition aluminum bottles collection of 250,000 of their popular Dorada beer for the Tenerife International Carnival.

These are truly gorgeous bottles, showcasing the art of aluminum bottle decorating, and really capture the spirit of carnival.  So they don’t look like beer bottles.  So what?  The designs speak for themselves.

The three designs are shown in the photo here.  One of them – with the Dorada text in bold – is nicknamed “Yellow Submarine,” and highlights different carnival motifs.

I went thru the SABMiller website and was surprised to find what brands they own.  Of course, I knew that they owned the Miller beer company.  But I bet most people wouldn’t know that they also owned Pilsner Urquell (the Czech beer considered #1 in the world to some afficionados), Peroni (Italy) and Grolsch (Holland).

Scentsy Aluminum Bottle for Room Sprays

I’ve blogged about aluminum bottles for perfumes a couple of times.

Scentsy Aluminum Bottle

We designed a beautiful bottle for one of our customers, the French parfumeur Molinard. It’s still one of my favorite aluminum bottles.

I just came across a new aluminum bottle for a room spray. Finally! I’ve been waiting for something like this for some time now.

The folks from Scentsy, are repackaging one of their room sprays in aluminum bottles instead of the usual glass and plastic bottles we normally see. Their aluminum bottles will have a spray pump, and a crimped aluminum top to minimize leaking.

I think it’s a good move by Scentsy. Aluminum bottles should help keep light, oxygen and other environmental factors from degrading the room spray essences too quickly, far better than plastic or glass.

Aluminum Bottles for Pepsi

Here’s another batch of aluminum bottles, right on the heels of the new Diet Coke aluminum bottles launched a few weeks ago.

Aluminum Bottles Pepsi

They’re from Pepsi. And they’re ugly 😦

I guess they didn’t want to hire a fashion designer like Diane von Furstenburg or Karl Lagerfeld to design their bottles. I wrote about the new designer aluminum bottles by Diet Coke in two recent posts.

These new Pepsi aluminum bottles come in hot pink, bright yellow, and blue – not exactly colors I associate with fizzy colas. They remind me, in fact, of kitchen cleaners and medicine.

Maybe these new aluminum bottles from Pepsi are a myth? I’ve never seen them. For that matter, I think I have not seen 90% of the new aluminum bottles from Coke or Pepsi.

I really wish these aluminum bottles had wider distribution and media coverage.