Canned Craft Beer

Shipyard Export Cans?

Is Shipyard Brewing Company planning to can Export?  Export is the Portland, Maine brewery’s flagship beer.  The blonde ale is brewed year round in draft & bottles.

 

Sixpoint’s First Summer Seasonal: Apollo

Today, Sixpoint launched their first summer installment in their seasonal can rotation.  Apollo has arrived.  From the brewery:

The last time we launched a new beer, we dissected and glorified the hop cone.  As many have noticed over the years, Sixpoint has a fascination – Continue Reading →

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 New Beers, Rhinelander Brewery

Rhinelander Shore Break Hefeweizen Cans

Rhinelander Shore Break Hefeweizen Cans

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Anheuser-Busch, Coming Soon

More Anheuser-Busch Brewmaster’s, This Time in Cans

This new Anheuser-Busch Brewmaster’s Reserve Series continues to develop, now with cans.  The above (Batch No 542) is the third label to surface in the impending series.

Each batch has had a geographic variation to it.  Batch 538 has St. Louis, MO on the label.  Batch 537: Los Angeles, CA.  Batch 542: Fairfield, California.   Each of those cities has an AB brewery/production location.

Style: Unknown
Availability: 12 oz cans
Arrival: TBA

5.5% ABV

Read More: Brewmaster’s Small Batch Series

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Shipyard Brewing

Shipyard Export Cans?

Is Shipyard Brewing Company planning to can Export?  Export is the Portland, Maine brewery’s flagship beer.  The blonde ale is brewed year round in draft & bottles.

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Coming Soon, Oskar Blues Brewing

Oskar Blues G’Knight Headed For Tallboys

Oskar Blue G'Knight 16ozNow that Oskar Blues (Lyon, CO) has the ability to produce 16oz cans (see Deviant Dales) the brewery is looking to add G’Knight to the tallboy lineup.   G’Knight went by the name “Gordon” until Gordon Biersch sued to the brewery over the name.

Gordon is a dry-hopped hybrid strong ale somewhere between a Double IPA and and Imperial Amber Ale (IAA). Brewed in tribute to the late Gordon Knight, Gordon is brewed with massive amounts of American hops and features about 85 IBUs and 8.7% alcohol by volume. 

Style: Imperial IPA
Availability: 12oz cans, Draft. Soon: 16oz cans

8.7% ABV 

Just this week, the brewery announced a new location they will build in North Carolina.

Read More: Oskar Blues

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Sixpoint Craft Ales

Sixpoint’s First Summer Seasonal: Apollo

Sixpoint ApolloToday, Sixpoint launched their first summer installment in their seasonal can rotation.  Apollo has arrived.  From the brewery:

The last time we launched a new beer, we dissected and glorified the hop cone.  As many have noticed over the years, Sixpoint has a fascination – bordering on obsession – with hops.  Today we are happy to announce a complete change of pace.  We are offering you an entirely new canned creation brewed with finesse and subtlety.  The secret and story in this beer is not within the hops, but instead within the yeast.

Apollo is the first-ever summer installment in our seasonal can rotation, and a new style for the brewery as well. In a white can to reflect the sun as well as nod to one of its main ingredients, white wheat, this ale is a clear, bronze-hued elixir to cool down those oncoming scorching days and sweltering evenings.

The inspiration for Apollo came from a land that is very dear to beer. Over the past few years, we’ve traveled to Bavaria several times to experience again the truly golden qualities of their weizens, or wheat ales. A collaboration between Sixpoint Founder/President Shane Welch and Sixpoint Braumeister Jan Matysiak, a German native and Weihenstephan Institute alumnus, the recipe was developed over many tastings and tourings around Bavaria, and put into action back home. Using an ancient Bavarian wheat ale yeast and a 50/50 ratio of wheat malt to barley malt, Apollo ale pays homage to its tried-and-true roots while offering a twist on tradition.

We invite you to witness the story and watch the full-length video to accompany the arrival of Apollo.  This video was compiled from raw footage while in Germany where we learned and philosophized about wheat beer.

We hope you enjoy it as much as we do, and have a toast to a long summer ahead.  Prost!

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Minhas Craft Brewery, New Beers

Minhas Good Times Lager Cans

Minhas Good Times Lager

by Reid Ramsay