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Posted in Tallgrass Brewing

Tallgrass Oktoberfest with Bee Puke

Tallgrass Brewing (Manhattan, KS) will release Honeyfest in cans this fall.  The Tallgrass twist on the brew is the addition of honey, or “bee puke” as they like to refer to it.   Yes, I said bee puke.  Let’s get into that for a second. Bees collect nectar from flowers and store it is a stomach separate from its true stomach. Internal enzymes begin converting the nectar to honey on the way back to the hive. Upon arriving back at the hive, the bees puke up the honey. It’s then finished into honey, or becomes part of the honeycomb. So yeah, be puke – aka honey.

Style: Oktoberfest (w/ honey)
Availability: 16oz cans, Draft
Arrival: Fall, 2012

?? ABV

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cool Stuff, Sun King Brewing

Sun King Looks To Can Barrel Aged & Sours

Sun King recently did something you have seen a small brewery do.  Put their beer in the Alumi-tek Resealable Can (Read: Sun King/Oskar Blues).  You’ve seen Coors Light do it.  Sun King also uses the same can design for all their seasonal offerings, but adds a sticker to designate which seasonal it is.

Sun King seems like a “next level” kind of brewery.  So enter this little nugget of beer nerd/beer cool.  Sun King is starting a barrel-aged program, and a sour beer program.  Cool right? Wait. I’m starting a new paragraph for this.

Sun King is looking to package these beers in the Alumi-tek cans.  Yeah, we’ve always joked about this.  KBS in cans. Black Tuesday in cans.  Hell, someone even asked me on Saturday if Sierra Nevada will can Bigfoot.  Sun King is starting with Johan Barleywine apparently.

The sour program launches by the end of the year.   Side Note:  A reader astutely pointed out that Great Crescent Brewery has canned Bourbon’s Barrel Stout.  Good catch.   [DraftMag]

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

Red Hare Long Day Lager Cans Debut This Summer

Red Hare Brewing (Marietta, GA) looks to be the first brewery in Georgia to release their beer in cans.  (Not counting the Anheuser-Busch plant in Cartersville.)  The canning line has already been ordered and will be arriving in time for installation in May 2012.

Long Day Lager will be the first beer to be canned.  Incidentally, it will also be the first packaging outside of draft by the brewery.   SweetWater Brewing has expressed a serious interest in canning also, potentially later this year.

Style: Lager
Availability: 12 oz cans, Draft. Year round.  Cans arriving in Summer, 2012

5.25% ABV 

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Red Hare Brewing

Red Hare In Cans: Long Day Lager

Red Hare Long Day Lager CansRed Hare Brewing (Marietta, GA) looks to be the first brewery in Georgia release their beer in cans.  (Not counting the Anheuser-Busch plant in Cartersville.)  The canning line has already been ordered and will be arriving in time for installation in May, 2012.

Long Day Lager will be the first beer to be canned.  Incidentally, it will also be the first packaging outside of draft by the brewery.   SweetWater Brewing has expressed a serious interest in canning also, potentially later this year.

Style: Lager
Availability: 12 oz cans, Draft. Year round.  Cans arriving in Summer, 2012

5.25% ABV 

Read on more more on the can beer scene

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Belgium, New Releases

New Belgium “Shift” Hits Shelves

New Belgium’s newest can offering is now hitting shelves.  Shift Pale Lager is ready for your hot weather consumption.  Shift is a light bodied lager brewed with Nelson Sauvin hops from New Zealeand.  Those hops give you a nice tropical, fruity flavor – much like the Sauvignon wine grape lends to wine.  Nelson hops really shine in a lager.

Shift is very approachable at just 5% ABV.  It is solely available in 16 oz tallboys, a flavorful pint of lager you can take anywhere.  New Belgium just bought a spiffy new canning line (selling the old one to Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, FL).  Shift is joined by a few more tallboy counterparts – Fat Tire, and Ranger IPA.  Cans are really blowing up in the U.S..

Style: Lager
Hops: Target, Nelson Sauvin, Liberty, Cascade
Malts:  Pale, Munich, C-80

Taste Expectations: Nice crisp malt flavor, light hops, floral & tropical.  Refreshing.
Availability: 16oz cans (only), Year round.

5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Finch's Beer Co

Finch’s Threadless Ready To Ship

Finch’s Beer Co (Chicago, IL) is preparing to ship their newest beer – Threadless IPA.  This is a pretty special beer, as it’s a collaboration with Threadless T-Shirt Company.  Last year, the brewery created a hoppy American IPA for Threadless, leading them to want to can the beer and share with the world.  One problem.  Artwork was needed.  Threadless took it to the people.  169 designs were submitted to be voted on.  The above design was the clear winner.

Our Threadless/Finch collaboration IPA is a balanced experience of both perceived hoppiness and true bitterness. It pours a darker amber color and finishes with a citrus flavor, and when combined, will require this to be the last IPA you ever drink! Well, maybe, we realize you will probably drink more, but the result of this recipe clearly evolves into a very balanced IPA. The grain bill on this big pale includes melanoidin and Victory malts. We hop it up before the boil starts with some Columbus first wort hopping, then add a bunch more for bittering.

Style: IPA
Availability: 16 oz cans
Arrival: April 2012

6% ABV

pic via Finch’s

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Churchkey Can Co, Cool Stuff, Videos

Churchkey Can Co Brings Old School Flat Tops Back [Video]

For the first time in over 50 years you will be able to drink from a flat-top beer can – just like the original looked like.  Why? Here’s a little backstory.   Back in 2010, two guys (Adrian Grenier and Justin Hawkins) wanted to drink a beer  out a can like folks did a generation before.  As you can imagine, can design has changed a bit since their inception. (Like cars, trains, planes, etc.)  The steel, flat top can was no longer in production.  I mean, you had to open cans of beer with a churchkey!  No pop tops back then.  (Don’t know what that is? watch the video or ask your parents.)

The Cans.  
In conjunction with Ball Corporation (they make aluminum cans. Lots and lots of them)  Adrian and Justin perfected the second coming of the flat top can.  Now you need a beer to put in it.

What beer? 
Enter homebrewer’s Sean Burke and Lucas Jones.  Two home brewers in Portland that were tapped to create Church Key Pilsner.

Church Key Can Co.
The face & name for the new flat top can brewing company.  The beer will be brewed by Joel VandenBrink at Two Beers Brewing in Seattle, Washington.  The first brewery in the area to churn out cans.

There ya go.  What’s old is new again.  Thanks to Adrian, Justin, Joel, Sean, Lucas & Ball Corporation.  [PressRelease]

Style: Pilsner
Hops: Saaz
Availability: 12 oz “Flat top” cans

4.9% ABV, 29 IBUs

Original Flat Top Beer Can from Churchkey Can co. on Vimeo.

Opening a flat top.  Pic via @HawkinsJustin

by Reid Ramsay