Bottle of Beer Low-poly 3D model

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Beer bottles come in various sizes and shapes, often made of brown or green glass to reduce spoilage from light exposure. Alternatives to glass containers include cans, aluminum bottles, and kegs for larger volumes. Bottling lines automate the process of filling, capping, labeling, and packaging beer bottles. Empty bottles are depalletized, rinsed, and carbon dioxide may be injected before filling with beer. Labeling machines apply labels to each bottle, followed by packing into boxes or cartons for storage. Bottling machinery varies depending on the scale of production, with options like liquid level fillers, volumetric fillers, overflow pressure fillers, and gravity fillers. Inline filling machines are popular for their efficiency, while rotary machines offer faster performance but at a higher cost. Shorter, flatter bottles called stubbies or steinies provide advantages such as ease of handling, reduced breakage, lighter weight, less storage space, and a lower center of gravity. They were popular in the U.S. and Canada until the 1980s but are still used by some craft brewers and brands like SP Lager from Papua New Guinea. Longneck bottles, known as industry standard bottles (ISB), have a uniform capacity, height, weight, and diameter, allowing reuse up to 16 times. In North America, the U.S. ISB longneck is 355 ml, while in Canada, the AT2 longneck holds 341 ml. Beer bottles are commonly sealed with crown caps or, less frequently, beugel-style caps or corks with muselet closures. Screw caps are used for larger beer containers due to their resealing design.