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Posted in New Releases, Sixpoint Craft Ales

Sixpoint Abigale, Their First Canned Belgian

The latest can drop from Sixpoint Abigale, aka A-BIG-ALE, their first canned Belgian brew.

Expect to find classic dark fruit flavors from the Belgian candi sugar used mixed right in with non-traditional piles of American hops finished off with traditional Belgian yeast.

Now, more than a decade since our first Belgian experiments, we dug through old brewing records and recipes, consulted with monks (over beers), and revitalized the formulation. A-BIG-ALE emerges from the catacombs, captured in 12 oz slim stained-glass cans and on draft across our network.

Sixpoint Abigale is available now in 12oz slim cans across the brewery’s entire network.

Style: Belgian Pale Ale
Availability: 12oz Cans
Release: March, 2015

8% ABV, 52 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Headlines, Nebraska Brewing

311 Is Creating Own Craft Beer

311 is planning to launch their own beer. What is it? An amber ale of course.

Rock Brothers Brewing (Tampa, FL), Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL), and Nebraska Brewing (Papillion, NE) are apparently involved in the project.

Initial details indicate the beer will most likely debut in July, limited to Los Angeles, and in the bands hometown of Omaha, Nebraska.

Nebraska Brewing is planning to make the 311 beer a part of their canned lineup later this year.

The beer has yet to be named.

Recently, 90’s sensation Hanson went into craft beer, with the launch of MmmHops.

Developing…

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer History

First Canned Beer Sold Jan 24, 1935

If you are Oskar Blues, Surly, or 21st Amendment Brewing (just to name a few) or any beer drinker that has ever drank a beer from a can, today is a big day for you.   The first beer in a can was sold on this day in 1935.  The American Can Company manufactured the cans that Gottfried Kruger Brewing Company ordered to can “Krueger’s Finest Beer & “Cream Ale”.  The brewery was based in Richmond, Va.

Few Facts:
– The first attempted at canning actually started in 1909.  The first attempts were unsuccessful due to pressure and sealing issues.
– Prohibition in the United States (aka The Dark Times) prevented American Can from attempting again until repeal – 1933
– As crazy as it sounds now, the sale of beer in cans wasn’t easy.  Adoption took time.
– Krueger’s canned beer became popular very fast once the idea took off.
– Schlitz, Pabst, Stroh’s & Anheuser-Busch lost market share due to Gottfried Krueger’s cans – so started canning also.
– According to the Brewer’s Association, canned beer accounts for more than 50% of beer sold in the states.

Here at the start of 2015, dozens of craft brewers are adding cans to their lineup. (Lonerider in North Carolina dropped bottles completely for cans.)

Happy Birthday beer can. Thanks for always being full.

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Don't Miss This, Great Divide

Great Divide Collette To Be Canned

Great Divide Brewing (Denver, CO) will be adding cans to the lineup in 2015, as a part a $30+ million dollar expansion.

Among the initial cans include Titan IPA, Hibernation and their year round farmhouse ale, Colette.

COLETTE is our homage to the saisons that Belgian farm workers have enjoyed for centuries. Brewed with barley, wheat and rice and fermented at high temperatures with a special blend of four different yeast strains, COLETTE is fruity and slightly tart, with a dry finish that makes it that rarest of treats — a beer as refreshing as it is complex.

If the timeline holds, the brewery should launch cans by summer, 2015. Great Divide is already available in 12oz bottles, and draft.

Style: Farmhouse Ale
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. 12oz Cans (2015). Year-round

7.3% ABV

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Iron Hill Brewing, New Releases

Iron Hill Releases First Canned Offering

Iron Hill Brewery (DE, PA, NJ) has just released their first canned beer Mahalo, Apollo! 

The summer wheat beer brewed with a Belgian yeast, and spiced grains of paradise and lemongrass.

Mahalo, Apollo! is a golden, complex and refreshing summer wheat beer spiced with lemongrass and Grains of Paradise fermented with Belgian yeast, making for an easy-drinking beer that complements grilled dishes beautifully.

Iron Hill Mahalo, Apollo! 16oz cans are the first by the brewery. Four packs are $16.75.

Style: American Wheat Beer (w/ Lemongrass, Grains of Paradise)
Availability: 16oz Cans. Summer Seasonal

6.9% ABV

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Intuition Ale Works

Intuition Ale Works Canned Imperial Stout, August 2nd

Intuition Ale Works (Jacksonville, FL ) will release cans of their King Street Imperial Stout on August 2nd, 2014.

4 packs will be available for $11, tap room only.

Style: Imperial Stout
Availability: 12oz cans, Draft. Limited release.
Arrival: 8/2/14

?? ABV

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, Seventh Sun Brewing

The First Canned Berliner Weisse in Florida

7venth Sun Brewing (SLKDJFS)  has become the first brewery in Florida to can a berliner weisse. The tart German wheat beer is gaining popularity among craft brewers, but there aren’t’ many to be found in cans. Especially in Florida. Until now.

Wolfman’s Berliner Weisse is now available in limited quantities in 16oz cans. The brewery has actually limited purchase to two cans per person. (If it’s even still available.)

Style: Berliner Weisse
Availability: 16oz cans, Draft.

 

by Reid Ramsay