Xrayman

No club soda also with exploding can explanation on MKE to SEA now

PaperGlider

If this isn't fixed soon, do the convenience stores in the airports sell club soda water to take on board? I may look around.

Asked Dr. Science. Cans will swell first before bursting. As when anyone accidentally freezes a can, the concave bottom of the cans will most often push out before the can reaches a pressure at which it will burst. This swelling instead of bursting first isn't always the case. If the can that is frozen is flawed or frozen unevenly or too fast ( in a -40 degree freezer for example). Cans, lids, or the attachment of the lids to the cans can be flawed. Bursting of a flawed can would be at an even lower pressure than normal can failures and not as spectacular event. Reference: the internet, reddit, experience, thin air.

ORD-DCA Flyer

Plenty of seltzer water loaded on AS203 ORD-SFO this morning, no problems! 🙂

DrAlex

Lacking on DCA-SEA this morning. Had a good laugh with the FA about how 'physics' might be at play. Settled for iced coffee.

sjbsf

They've had soda water on the planes for years, and "suddenly" they start exploding? What's different?

dabeags

Wait a second, that is an option? As In, it isn't just the hot coffee poured over ice?

be_rettSEA

Came here to ask about this, for years I've been telling AS that offering bottled cold brew as a premium beverage (purchase in Y, free in Y+, F) would be such an improvement/very "west coast". Would love to see it happen.

DrAlex

I didn't see it poured, but judging by the size of the ice cubes, it's hot coffee poured over ice... Some half and half plus a little sweet makes it more tolerable than hot coffee IMO. Crater Lake and Bailey's makes it magical, but didn't have the stomach for that this morning

Eastbay1K

It could be something as "simple" as something out of calibration re: carbonation pressure at one of the bottling plants in the supply chain.

cyber1k

JFK-LAX First AS407 on 9/7 had no soda water AKA sparkling water boarded. FA offered tonic water.

FAs were disengaged with pax and rushed through meal service. A retired AA pilot sitting next to me called it the worst first class experience in the industry.

Didn't AS say they were upping their catering quality in F?

dabeags

So I talked with the FA yesterday and she said that it would definitely just be hot coffee poured over Ice. Oddly, she says sometimes she uses the leftover coffee bags to make her self a poor mans cold brew on longer flights, but they won't let her serve it to passengers.

Whole heartily agree that if they got the cans of Sump Cold Brew and offered it as a premium beverage it would be amazing.

be_rettSEA

Can definitely see why they couldn't / shouldn't be serving that to passengers. If others want to join me on my broken-record-requests-for-cold-brew in Alaska Listens and otherwise, feel free! The more comments they receive about it, the more likely they are to consider it, I imagine.

dabeags

I am IN. Going to be slamming Cold Brew and Bailey's as a PDB on early afternoon flights in no time!

dayone

Moderator Note: The thread title has been edited to be more descriptive. It's also a reminder of the topic. Further discussion of coffee drinks should be made in a new/different thread. Thanks.

dayone, AS Moderator.

chrisl137

Seems more likely that it would be a bad can sealer, or maybe the machine that scores the lids was cutting a little deep. The cans should be able to handle more than 2x the normal pressure, and you'd think they'd notice in the factory if they were overdoing the pressure by that much.

That's been one of my pet peeves since the liquid ban. I used to bring a 2 L bottle of seltzer (or 2) for a transcon. I've just recently started seeing small bottles of "Dasani sparkling" in some airport concessions (PDX at least, and I think somewhere else). They're small, maybe 12 oz, but better than nothing.