Carlsberg has created the world’s smallest beer bottle, the size of a grain of rice
12 November 14:18
The Danish company Carlsberg has unveiled the world’s smallest beer bottle – a miniature glass container only 12 millimeters high, about the size of a grain of rice, "Komersant Ukrainian" writes, citing the Daily Mail.
It contains only 0.05 milliliters of non-alcoholic beer, which is 0.008% of the volume of a standard pint.
According to Carlsberg, this microscopic exhibit is not intended for consumption, but as a symbol of responsible drinking.
“We want to remind people of the importance of moderate consumption of drinks. This is our most moderate idea ever,” said Kasper Danielsson, Head of Communications at Carlsberg Sweden.
The mini-bottle was produced by Glaskomponent, a Swedish company specializing in laboratory glass. Miniature artist Osa Strand applied the label, cap and ink by hand. According to her, creating the 12-mm-high model required “precision, patience, and creativity,” as there was no technology available for such work.
To fill the bottle, Sweden’s RISE Research Institute developed ultra-thin tubes similar to those used in fiber optics. The contents of the bottle are a specially brewed non-alcoholic beer with a rich flavor created at Carlsberg’s experimental brewery in Falkenberg.
Carlsberg plans to exhibit the miniature bottle in its museum in Copenhagen and has also announced a competition among students of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm: the one who creates an even smaller bottle of beer is promised SEK 10,000 (approximately EUR 920) and a trip to the company’s research laboratory.
