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Monday, May 9, 2011

4 Canned Beer Festivals worth checking out!

Four Festivals that Celebrate Canned Craft Beer!

This year there will be (at least) four beer festivals entirely devoted to promoting canned craft beer. Below, we give you a chronological run down of these fests which are taking place in four different states at four different times. If you're like us you're wishing you could make it to all of them! Cheers!

First on the calendar this summer is the "AmeriCAN Canned Craft Beer Festival" which is being hosted by SanTan Brewing Company. This festival, which pays homage to canned craft beer in a big way, is being held in Chandler, Arizona and is sure to be a good one.

WHAT: First Annual AmeriCAN Canned Craft Beer Festival

WHERE: Downtown Chandler, Arizona (not far from Tempe and Phoenix)

WHEN: May 21, 2011 (2-6pm)

WHY: Arizona is quickly becoming a hotbed for canned craft beer and this festival is attracting some great breweries PLUS you can grab some food and a few beers at SanTan's nearby brewpub!

WHO: The festival is hosted by SanTan Brewing Company and the current list of breweries attending can be found HERE!

HOW: Tickets can be purchased by going HERE!

SOCIAL MEDIA: AmeriCAN Canned Craft Beer Fest's Facebook Page

From the folks who started it all comes this year's bigger and better "Burning Can"! Oskar Blues held the festival last year in Lyons and limited it to canning breweries from Colorado (no shortage there). This year they've opened that up to breweries from outside the state and moved the event to Longmont. Should be epic.

WHAT: Second Annual "Burning Can" Festival

WHERE: Oskar Blues Brewery in Longmont, Colorado

WHEN: June 18, 2011 (2-6pm)

WHY: Bigger venue, more breweries attending and it's being hosted by one of the best canning breweries in the country and they seriously know how to throw a party!

WHO: The festival is hosted by Oskar Blues Brewery

HOW: Tickets are not yet for sale online


SOCIAL MEDIA: Oskar Blues' Facebook Page

Last month I made a trip to Brooklyn to check out Full Circle, a little bar that's known for two things; Skee Ball and Canned Craft Beer. With no space for empty bottles it only made sense for the owners of Full Circle to go with cans. They now stock every canned craft beer available in the state of New York along with some select brews on tap. CANdemonium is a three day party devoted to the can. I gather last year's event was pretty impressive, with over 40 canned beers available, so this year's should be equally as good if not better.

WHAT: Second Annual "CANdemonium Can Fest"


WHERE: 318 Grand Street Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY 11211

WHEN: November, 2011 (dates to be announced)

WHY: It's canned craft beer, its people, its fun and there's plenty of Skee Ball action as well! How could you not have fun?

WHO: The festival is hosted by Full Circle Bar and the homepage for the event can be found HERE! (Note: 2011 Event Information is not yet available)


HOW: Check out the event site or stop into Full Circle

SOCIAL MEDIA: Full Circle's Facebook Page

The longest running festival devoted to canned craft beer. Reno's Buckbean Brewing Company brings back "CANFEST" for it's third year. The event will surely be larger with more breweries in attendance this year and is being held in a new location this year which looks awesome.

WHAT: Third Annual "CANFEST: Reno International Canned Beer Festival"

WHERE: Silver Legacy Resort & Casino in Reno, Nevada

WHEN: November 12th, 2011

WHY: Lot's of canned craft beer to try, not to mention the venue is a casino! Oh yeah, most of the ski resorts in nearby Lake Tahoe should be open by this time as well!

WHO: The festival is hosted by Buckbean Brewing Company


HOW: Tickets will be made available online by going HERE!


SOCIAL MEDIA: CANFEST's Facebook Page
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Mario Rubio on craft canned beer.

Canned in the USA

Here in Sonoma County, it looks like the last of the rain has fallen for the year. The ground is no longer moist to the touch and the forecast is nothing but sun and increasing temperatures. Looks like it’s time to start making weekend plans that include long stretches of outdoor activity (not that a Bay Area winter exactly chases one inside). When heading outdoors, a bottle can be a bit of a hassle: heavy, breakable and no easier to carry once emptied. Thank God craft beer is becoming increasingly available in cans. How much more available? Well you’ll just have to keep reading to find out.

While many of us grew up with nothing more than industrial lagers in cans, the variety of beer available in cans today is staggering. From light pilsners to hoppy IPA to thick and viscous imperial stouts, everything a beer lover could want can be found in a can. Let’s take a look at a sample of what might be out there for each individual’s taste, or for each situation.

On the hot days, a crisp pilsner (or reasonable approximation of a pilsner) may be exactly what you’re looking for. The pilsner style is definitely represented within the canned market. The style is made for cans with its subtle hopping needing the added protection of the can’s aluminum. Additionally, these beers, meant to be served cold, will ice down in no time.

If pilsners are a bit too light for your taste but you still want the crisp flavor of a lager, there are still plenty of options. Bock’s, amber lagers, Oktoberfest märzen; they’re all coming in cans. As a lover of märzen, the Santa Fe Oktoberfest jumps out to me, but it may also be the can. (See if you can identify their cans in the pictures of this article. I love their simple style). Whichever way you go, look for a more full-flavored lager than what your dad packed in the cooler.

Anchored by the success of brands such as Blue Moon and before that Widmer, the wheat beer style is almost a must have in any summer cooler. Be it a flavored-wheat containing fruit, spices or both, or simply a lighter ale brewed with the same result in mind, these are craft brewing’s answer to the traditional lager and pilsner. Light and refreshing with more body and signature ale esters, hot weather doesn’t stand a chance when you’ve packed these cans.

Chances are, if you’re reading this article, you’re a fan of hops. This is where you’re invited back into the conversation as the pale ale category is full of canned beer. With the standard for pale ale, Sierra Nevada, starting their own canning operation later this year, it’s nice to see a wide variety of pales to quench our thirsts right now. It’s in this group that you’ll find the first craft beer I ever enjoyed in a can, and I was immediately won over. Good to see ya Dale.

The hops really step it up a notch with the IPAs available in cans. These are no light bodied faux-IPA either. From one of the first beers to make me truly understand what hops were (Hop Ottin IPA) to one of the hoppiest beers I’ve ever had anywhere (Oskar Blues’ Gubna), the IPA category is bursting and is almost becoming the go to style in terms of canning. As the general public clamors for more IPA, it’s only a matter of time until this stack of IPA cans rivals and surpasses those of pilsners and lagers.

As we get into the darker colored beers found in cans, our styles begin to fall apart. Those of amber hues range from classic amber and red ales to Scottish Ales, Imperial reds and Belgian-styled beers. Keep these in the cooler for when the sun begins to creep behind the horizon as their richer malt flavors will go well with that campfire dinner.

Last but not least, as the sun sets on this canned collection, we get into “the dark beer.” As with the ambers, the styles fall apart completely here. Porters, Black IPA, Stouts, and even Imperial stouts, they can all be found in cans. These are the beers that will surprise most who are new to cans. The idea of an imperial stout, coconut infused porter or even a brown ale may seem odd, It even looks odd when pouring out of a can, but the beer is fine. In fact, as mentioned with pilsners, these bigger beers can stay fresh longer in a can. Aging canned beers is a questionable proposition. I’ve aged cans of Ten Fidy for a year and the result wasn’t as noticeable as I might have expected.

Wherever this summer takes you, rest assured knowing you have a wide selection of cans to pack in the backpack, throw in the camping cooler or just sit back at home and drink.


From: http://mariorubio.hoppress.com/2011/04/28/canned-in-the-usa/

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Friday, April 22, 2011

Fact about recycling cans.

Aluminum Cans Recycling Facts

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Aluminum Cans Recycling Facts

Overview

The average aluminum can in America has 40 percent post-consumer recycled aluminum, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
When you throw away aluminum products, such as beverage cans and food containers, they end up in landfills. But if you recycle them, you conserve energy and help to prevent landfills from increasing.

Function

The aluminum can recycling process starts with the consumer, who cleans and sorts aluminum cans and then places them in the proper container for pickup or takes them directly to a recycling center. Workers then sort out high-quality aluminum items and discard any useless bits, such as pieces contaminated by dirt, wood, glass, plastic or other foreign materials. Workers melt down the selected pieces and shape them into ingots, which they later roll out into large sheets. Manufacturers buy the sheets and use them to make aluminum products.

Features

Recycling aluminum cans reduces waste that contributes to the problem of overflowing landfills. Recycling cans also conserves energy because the aluminum-recycling process uses less than 5 percent of the energy that the manufacture of new aluminum from bauxite ore requires, according to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.

Significance

In 2008, aluminum was 1.3 percent of the total amount of municipal solid waste, for a total of 3.4 million tons, according to the EPA. Compare that to 1960, when aluminum was only 0.4 percent or 340,000 tons. These totals do not include the aluminum present in automobiles, which is measured separately. The largest category of aluminum waste in 2008 was used containers, such as beverage and food cans, according to the EPA.

Conservation Benefits

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources lists the conservation benefits of recycling aluminum. Recycling a single aluminum can conserves as much energy as 6 ounces of gasoline. In 2000, the United States recycled 54.8 million aluminum cans, conserving the energy equivalent of 2.58 billion gallons of gasoline. The aluminum not recycled in the United States that year would have saved the equivalent of another 2.15 billion gallons of gasoline.

Potential

The increasing use of plastics for beverage containers and other products is lowering the demand for aluminum products, according to industry sources cited by the EPA. But demand may increase as car manufacturers develop new, lighter car technologies in their efforts to increase fuel efficiency.



Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/138336-aluminum-cans-recycling-facts/#ixzz1KIm16azJ
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Bohemian Brewery in the Tribune

Utah brewery has can-brew attitude

BY KATHY STEPHENSON

The Salt Lake Tribune

First published Feb 28 2011 06:42PM
Updated 55 minutes ago

In the battle between beer in a can and beer in a bottle, glass gets all the respect.

But a new batch of small brewing companies — including Midvale’s Bohemian Brewery — are helping make cans a contender.

“We took canning on because it’s better for the beer and better for the environment,” said Pete Petras, who co-owns Bohemian along with his parents Joe and Helen.

Bohemian, at 94 E. 7200 South, was among the first U.S. brewers to join the beer-in-a-can revolution. In 2005, when the small brewery first packaged its signature Czech Pilsener in aluminum, there were fewer than 10 U.S. breweries using cans, Petras said.

Since then, Bohemian has added the Viennese Lager and the Cherny Bock Schwarzbier to its canned offerings. All three beers are sold in major grocery stores.

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The craft of cans » Putting top-quality micro-brewed beer in what many perceive as a “low brow” container may have once seemed like a marketing mistake. Yet since 2002, when Colorado’s tiny Oscar Blue Brewery used a table-top canning machine to put Dale’s Pale Ale in an aluminum container, the packaging move has become an industry trend. Since then, the idea of canned micro-brewed beer has been catching on nationally.

Today, there are about 100 small breweries canning about 3 percent of all craft beer, said Julia Herz, the craft beer program director with The Brewers Association. The trend is so new, the national organization hasn’t compiled numbers.

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But anecdotally, according to Herz, the association argues that aluminum cans are taking hold. It even named the idea of canning craft beer as one of its hot trends for 2011. “Every month we hear of another brewery that is canning,” she said.

There are other indications that cans are in. There’s a website —http://craftcans.com — dedicated entirely to micro-brewed beer in a can. And two years ago, the International Canned Beer Festival was launched in Reno, Nev. CANFEST attracted more than two dozen brewers from the U.S. and several foreign countries in 2010. Bohemian Brewery was among them, winning a gold medal for its Viennese Lager.

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Canned history » Canning isn’t anything new, of course, as cans have been containers for everything from meat to vegetables and soda for some 200 years. The first cans were made of steel, rusting easily and giving food a metallic taste. That problem ended once companies switched to aluminum, and later, began lining the inside of the cans.

The first canned beer was sold in January 1935 by the Krueger brewery in Richmond, Va. Lightweight, inexpensive and easy to stack and ship, Krueger’s canned beer was an instant success.

But for decades, canning equipment was so bulky, it was only economical for large companies that mass-produced beer to use it, Petras said.

“The machines were monstrosities, requiring 6,000 to 10,000 square feet of dedicated space,” he said. “That didn’t leave much room for small breweries.”

During the last decade, canning equipment has become more compact, and companies that produce aluminum cans are willing to accept smaller orders. That opened cans to small microbrewers.

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  • UnclePoop 10 minutes ago
    They put it in cans because they got a better deal on the machinery, but it's still good beer.
  • Rocksville 14 minutes ago
    I am always amused by people who have the tap>bottle>can hierarchy...as if that tap beer didn't just come from an aluminum container.

    I'm a huge fan of Viannese, I just wish it came in larger quantities so I don't have to bring 4 12 packs when I head camping for a week.
  • onbarodtime 31 minutes ago
    Beer is quickly becoming a mainstream revenue stream as we export our brews to those who appreciate the finer things in life. Even with all of the hurdles thrown in the path of these breweries success, their contributions to Utah's tax base should not go unrecognized as even those who despise the evil elixers enjoy the fruits of the labor. Drink up!...
  • DarkerMatter 33 minutes ago
    Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?
  • FREEYOURMIND69 36 minutes ago
    Oh no beer in Utah! Quick ,someone call the ldsislature and get this evil brew banned right away!!
  • GiveToTheGov 1 hour ago
    Call your Senator and Rep and urge them to vote for SB314!!
  • Thank you John Valentine for protecting us from beer!

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(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Brewmaster Bobby Jackson brews Czech Pilsener at Bohemian Brewery in Midvale. National beer experts say canned beer is growing in popularity because cans keeps light and air away from the beer better than glass bottles. Cans are also are easier to recycle and better for the environment.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Brewmaster Bobby Jackson brews Czech Pilsener at Bohemian Brewery in Midvale. National beer experts say canned beer is growing in popularity because cans keeps light and air away from the beer better than glass bottles. Cans are also are easier to recycle and better for the environment.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Viennese Lager rolls off the automated line at Bohemian Brewery in Midvale. From left, Bohemian Brewery’s Viennese Lager, Czech Pilsner and Cherny Bock are the only beers sold in a can from a brewery in Utah.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Viennese Lager rolls off the automated line at Bohemian Brewery in Midvale. From left, Bohemian Brewery’s Viennese Lager, Czech Pilsner and Cherny Bock are the only beers sold in a can from a brewery in Utah.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Bohemian Brewery in Midvale is one of the few microbreweries in the country, and the only brewery in Utah, to package beer in cans.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Brian Erickson places tabs on six-packs of Viennese Lager at Bohemian Brewery in Midvale.
At A Glance

Bohemian Brews

Bohemian Brewery, which specializes in making European-style lagers, is the only Utah brewery that packages and sells its products in aluminum cans. Here’s what’s available:

Czech Pilsener » A crisp, full-bodied beer made from Pilsen malt and yeast imported from the Czech Republic. The well-aged lager won numerous awards over the years, and owner Joe Petras names it his favorite beer. A good pairing with salads, seafood and other light fare. (Mike Riedel, author of the Utah Beer Blog, also lists it as one of the top five beers in the state.

Viennese Lager » An amber-colored lager with a roasted nutty malt flavor and hops. It has won various gold and silver medals from the North American Brewery Association, as well as a gold medal at Nevada’s 2010 CANFEST. This versatile beer pairs well with all kinds of foods from spicy to savory.

Cherny Bock Schwarzbier » This dark-colored lager — Cherny (Cerné) means “black” in Czech — smells and tastes rich. It has hints of coffee, chocolate and a gentle malt bitterness. It won a silver medal in the Schwarzbier (black beer) category at the Great American Beer Festival. Pairs well with barbecued meats and chocolate desserts.
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