Asahi paused production of its awesome removable-top beer cans, so let’s try making our own!

Asahi paused production of its awesome removable-top beer cans, so let’s try making our own!
投稿日 2021年4月22日 02:30:52 （ニュース）

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Can we achieve the same results with a can opener? We find out!

Beer lovers in Japan may know that Asahi Super Dry recently released a special kind of beer can that offers the experience of drinking a draft beer freshly poured from the tap. It’s called the Nama Jockey Can, which loosely translates to “Glass of Draft Beer in a Can”, and when we tried it, we were delighted with how tasty and smooth it was.

The can works in a such a way that, rather than having the standard pop tab that all beer cans have, it actually has a pull-open lid, which basically turns the can into a cup so that you can appreciate the full sensations of drinking the beer: the way it smells, the sounds it makes, and the visual appeal. We liked it so much, in fact, that after we tried it we couldn’t envision ourselves ever going back to regular beer cans…

At least until Asahi announced that they’ve suspended shipping of the new cans just two days after releasing them, apparently because they don’t have enough materials to make them. Even so, our local convenience store was still selling some shortly after, so we thought we’d still be able to find some for a little while…But soon the shelves were completely wiped out, and all hope was lost.

But then we had a thought…if the idea was to have a more open top of the can, then why can’t we just use a can opener to remove the top of a regular can of beer and drink it that way?

Feeling like we were on the brink of an ingenious discovery, we immediately popped into a convenience store to pick up a regular-style can of Asahi Super Dry.

And because we simply could not wait to confirm our ingenuity, we also bought a can opener.

Now, one of the benefits of the Nama Jockey Can is that it’s specially designed to make the foaming head of the beer really expand when you open the can, thanks to a special textured coating on the inside. The difference in air pressure between the can and the air outside of it really makes that foam pop!

But experience has told us that normal beer cans can also produce a fair amount of head, so it stands to reason that even when we remove the top of the can with a can opener, we should be able to produce at least a little bit of head, right?

Yeah….no.

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It’s true that the can did produce some head as we opened it, but it took us so long to open it that it fizzled out by the time we were done. As it turns out, opening an aluminum drinking can with a can opener is really difficult. Because the aluminum is so thin, the can opener had a hard time holding on to it. No matter how many times we tried, it just kept slipping off. In the end, we had to resort to opening the can old-school style–with an army knife.

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