I Like Your Crafty Cans!
Move over Coors and Budweiser, there has been a trend in the craft beer industry to put good quality brew into cans! No longer are we limited to nights of shattered glass while dancing barefoot around an open fire, we can now slice our feet equally well with aluminum! So, at least for a few moments, say so long to the bottleneck; it’s going to be a wild aluminum ride!
I must admit that I was a skeptic the first time JDavid recommended scuttling off to BevMo to pick up some sixers of Maui Big Swell IPA and their Coconut Porter. I smirked loudly on the drive home when the realization came that the Big Swell looked exactly like a Pepsi can, although it tasted pretty decent for an IPA. Later that evening, the coconut porter was outstanding and a real eye-opener in terms of creating a respect for beers in a can and allowed the adventure to cantinue.
Since this inauguration day of canned craft brews, we have tried the following canned craft beers:
1. Maui Brewing Company: Bikini Blonde, Coconut Porter, Big Swell IPA
2. Oscar Blues: Dale’s Pale Ale, Old Chub, Gordon, Ten Fidy
3. 21st Amendment: 21A IPA, Watermelon Wheat
Cans yet to be suckled:
1. Surly: Currently Five Offerings
After much tasting, the following conclusions can be made about canned craft beer. It has a great amount of potential. Canned beer can be as good as beer put into the familiar crystalline jar. It would also be nice to do the still unpatented “double can”: pouring a great canned craft beer out of a can, onto cans of the silicone and tippable variety, then straight into the mouth.
Three cheers for craft cans!
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Drank two Ten Fidys last night. Maybe not as good as on tap, but they were really excellent. If someone had handed me the glass, I would have never guessed that it was poured from a can.
(Unfortunately, no double canning was had last night though.)
It’s funny, in Mexico it’s considered kind of elite to be drinking beer en lata (in a can). In many cases, cans cost more. I suspect the origins there are the ability of aluminum to completely eliminate light from impacting the beer. Too much light can make a beer skunky (those Bud commercials are true). Cans don’t let in any light.
Especially the clear bottles like Corona. AHHHH…nothing like stale, light-penetrated Mexican Budweiser. Delicious.