Canned Craft Beer

Upland Champagne Velvet Cans Coming

Upland Beer Champagne Velvet cans are on the way. The pilsner was released in early 2013, meant to remind the beer drinker of what beers were like prior to prohibition in the United States (aka the dark times.)

Champagne Velvet, a German-inspired Continue Reading →

Saint Arnold Cans, A Possibility

The oldest craft brewery in Texas looks to be gearing up for canned offerings. Artwork for Saint Arnold Summer Pils has surfaced.

The brewery, which has been shipping craft beer since June of 1994, offers their lineup in 12oz and 22oz Continue Reading →

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 Continue Reading →

Posted in Anchor Brewing, Headlines, New Releases

Anchor Collaborates with Chris Robinson Brotherhood on New Can

Anchor Brewing Company (San Francisco, CA) has teamed up with the Chris Robinson Brotherhood to create Brotherhood Steam Beer.

Brotherhood Steam Beer is based off of Anchor’s flagship offering Steam, dry-hopped with Citra and Nelson Sauvin hops. The combination is something completely unique.

The result is a copper color brew with aromatic hints of citrus and mint, a smooth, full-bodied malt flavor with a lingering, fresh hop finish.

Chris Robinson Brotherhood is an American blues band formed by Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes. The Crowes are on indefinite hiatus.

Brotherhood Steam Beer will be available at select Chris Robinson Brotherhood shows, and in 12oz cans nationwide this December. This is the second canned offering by Anchor.

Style: Steam Beer
Availability: 12oz Cans, Limited Draft.
Arrival: December, 2014

Anchor & Chris Robinson Brotherhood

Chris Robinson Brotherhood seen at Anchor Brewing in San Francisco, California

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Upland Beer

Upland Champagne Velvet Cans Coming

Upland Beer Champagne Velvet cans are on the way. The pilsner was released in early 2013, meant to remind the beer drinker of what beers were like prior to prohibition in the United States (aka the dark times.)

Champagne Velvet, a German-inspired pilsner, was the flagship of the defunct Terre Haute Brewing Company. Upland is using Michigan Mobile Canning for the packaging.

Champagne Velvet is a Classic American Pilsner, reminiscent of what local beer tasted like before prohibition. The balance of corn and malted barley provides a golden straw color and subtle sweetness, reminding the drinker of a time when corn would be used to provide flavor and stability to beer. Cluster hops, the oldest variety grown in the United States, were used for bittering, and a late kettle addition of German Tettnang provides noble hop flavor and aroma. Grown in the southwest region of Germany where Anton Mayer was born before immigrating to the United States and taking over the Terre Haute Brewing Company, our choice of Tettnang hops are both a tribute to the man who would make Champagne Velvet’s original popularity possible while also adding a historically authentic ingredient to our recipe.

Style: Pilsner
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft. Cans (Soon.) Year-round.

Image via the brewery 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Headlines, Smuttynose Brewing

Smuttynose Finest Kind IPA Slated for Cans

Smuttynose Brewing Finest Kind IPA is slated for cans. The brewery’s new Towle Farm location kicked off public tours on May 31st, and the first bottles down the line were Finest Kind IPA.

It looks like Smuttynose Finest Kind IPA cans could be around the corner as well. It’s not secret that craft breweries are gravitating towards a canned options.

Finest Kind IPA is currently year round offering in 12oz bottles and draft.

Note: This is a “first look” preview. Details are subject to change at anytime by the brewery. 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, New Belgium

New Belgium Rampant IPA Coming to Cans

New Belgium Rampant Imperial IPA is slated for cans.

The brewery launched Rampant IPA in March of 2013, and hop heads fell quickly in love with it. Building upon the success of New Belgium cans, (and well, craft beer in cans in general) the brewery will be bringing Rampant IPA to cans.

…The hop profile heavily features Mosaic and Calypso, bringing stone fruit flavors to the front seat. We’re talking peaches, apricots, things like that. Centennials are in there too, rounding out the aroma with a big citrus blast. Rampant also offers a sturdy malt backbone to balance the flavor in such wonderful way. It is a really great beer, like really great…

New Belgium Rampant IPA will be available in 12oz cans. Release date to follow.

Style: Imperial IPA
Hops: Mosaic, Calypso, Centennial
Malts: Pale, Black

Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. 12oz Cans (Soon)

8.5% ABV, 85 IBUS

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Headlines, Saint Arnold Brewing

Saint Arnold Cans, A Possibility

The oldest craft brewery in Texas looks to be gearing up for canned offerings. Artwork for Saint Arnold Summer Pils has surfaced.

The brewery, which has been shipping craft beer since June of 1994, offers their lineup in 12oz and 22oz bottles and draft.

Seasonal offering Summer Pils could soon be available in 12oz cans for the first time.

Beer Street Journal has reached out to the brewery for more information.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Tallgrass Brewing

Tallgrass Vanilla Bean Buffalo Sweat Returns

Two years ago, Tallgrass Vanilla Bean Buffalo Sweat was promoted to big time status. The brewery took Buffalo Sweat, an oatmeal cream stout, and nuanced it with Ugandan vanilla beans.

The result is a creamy chocolate beer with a hint of espresso, turned full on dessert beer.

To create Vanilla Bean Buffalo Sweat we start with our best selling beer, Buffalo Sweat. We carefully infuse this award- winning oatmeal cream stout with whole Ugandan vanilla beans. This enhances the beer’s natural dark-roasted flavors of espresso, chocolate, and creamy sweetness. “Liquid chocolate chip espresso cookies” is how one fan described its unique flavor.

Tallgrass Vanilla Bean Buffalo Sweat is available in 16oz cans again for 2014.

Style: Oatmeal Stout (w/ Vanilla Beans)
Availability: 16oz Cans. Winter Seasonal

5% ABV

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