Canned Craft Beer

Wild Wolf Wee Heavy Scottish Style Ale

Currently, Wild Wolf only has two offerinsg in cans according to their website – Alpha Ale, and American Pilsner. Looks like Wee Heavy is in the works.

 

Posted in Blue Mountain Barrel House, New Beers

Blue Mountain Kolsch 151 Cans

Blue Mountain Kolsch 151

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Heavy Seas, New Releases

Heavy Seas Now Officially in Cans [PIC]

Heavy Seas (Baltimore, MD) in now officially in the canning biz. Loose CANnon, the brewery’s hop bomb of an IPA has a new metal home. This is the first time any Heavy Seas brew has been canned, so you can imagine the brewery’s excitement.

Expect to see 12oz/12 packs of these hoppy bad boys in the coming weeks. Throw of few in your bag, and get outside.

Style: IPA
Hops: Warrior, Simcoe, Palisade, Centennial
Malts: 2 Row, Caramalt, Munich

Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft, Cask, 12oz cans. Year Round

7.25% ABV

Expect a lower ABV edition of Davy Jones Lager, and Arghhtoberfest! coming soon to cans too.

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Beers, Wild Wolf Brewing Company

Wild Wolf Wee Heavy Scottish Style Ale

Wild Wolf Wee Heavy Scottish Style Ale
Currently, Wild Wolf only has two offerinsg in cans according to their website – Alpha Ale, and American Pilsner. Looks like Wee Heavy is in the works.

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Anderson Valley Brewing Company

Anderson Valley Launches El Steinber in Tallboys

Anderson Valley Brewing Company has upgraded El Steinber Dark Lager to 16oz “pounder” cans. They are shipping this week. Back in September of 2012, AVBC launched El Steinber as a draft only offering in California, slowing making its way to tap handles around the country. It’s tall boy time for the dark lager.

…  “We recently added a second canning line that gave us the ability to use larger formats, so why not package our first full-production lager in our first sixteen ounce can?” 

Style: Dark Lager
Availability: Draft, 16oz cans
Arrival: Late April, 2013. All AVBC distribution markets

5.5% ABV
by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Sierra Nevada

Sierra Nevada Summerfest Planned For Cans [Updated]

Sierra Nevada (Chico, CA) is busy these days. Hell, they are always busy.  Building a new brewery in North Carolina, expanding the Ovila Abbey Series, maintaining the gold standard for IPAs in America, the list goes on.

As the craft beer in cans revolution continues, so does Sierra Nevada’s canned offerings. Currently you can get Torpedo and Pale Ale in cans. You’ll soon kick back with Summerfest in a can. Cans should ship by Memorial Day, 2013. Summerfest is a late Spring/Summer seasonal.

Style: Pilsner
Hops: Czech Saaz, Select, Spalter, Perle
Malts: Two Row Pale, Pilsner, Munich

Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft. Cans- soon
Arrival: Memorial Day, 2013

5% ABV, 28 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Shipyard Brewing

Shipyard Summer Ale Now in Cans (In Some Places)

Shipyard Brewing Company (Portland, ME) has added Summer Ale for the first time in cans. This summer, you can buy this wheat beer in 12oz bottles, 12 ounce cans, and draft. Cans will only be available in New England and Florida.

Style: Wheat Beer
Hops:  Hallertau
Malt: 2-Row British Pale Ale, Light Munich, Malted Wheat
Yeast:  Top-Fermenting English

Availability: 12oz bottles, 12oz Cans, Draft. ERP $8.50 for 6-packs

ABV:  4.8%

Hashtag:  #sipashipyard

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in SweetWater Brewing

Update on SweetWater’s Canning Aspirations

A whopping 516 days ago, Beer Street Journal mentioned that SweetWater Brewing Company (Atlanta, GA) was factoring in a canning line in the new expansion on Ottley Drive. At the time, it was brewery founder Freddy Bensch’s plan to have a canning line in place sometime in 2012.

If you have spent any amount of time around a craft brewery, you’ll know not everything goes to plan. Over the weekend at SweetWater’s 42o Fest in Atlanta, Freddy held court with fest’s beer drinking attendees. The people have spoken. They want cans. In the the brewery’s packaging footprint does have an area earmarked for a canning line, but one is NOT on order. Or even really been spec’d out.

Cans are indeed very seriously on the radar for SweetWater. As Freddy Bensch said this weekend – when they do can, he’s thinking of bringing back Hummer, the brewery’s retired witbier.

Don’t even start thinking about cans from Atlanta’s biggest craft brewery until sometime in 2014.

by Reid Ramsay