Best Canned Beers

Headline caught my eye this morning, definitely worth a quick read or at least a perusing. Discuss amongst yourselves.

http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/805/best-canned-beers-to-drink-now/

 

I know Vivant a few other brewers here in Michigan are going to the cans. They have a lot of benefits over glass(cost, no light penetration, etc) but I just worry about the BPA lining in the cans. Would rather not have to worry about this in my beer too. Just my 2c

 

Had a vivant the other night. I was quite surprised when the sever brought me a can. It was the Kludde belgian dark. A but sour but decent beer. Millkingit it's also canning her in the D.

 

I just had that one last weekend for the first time. I am not a huge fan of sours, but that one was pretty good. The Belgian IPA is good once you let it warm up a bit and the Abbey Ale was pretty good as well. Going out there this weekend for the Winter Beer Fest and I think we check out their brewery.

 

Heady Topper gets my vote.

Apart from that, Caldera has some great stuff in cans, as does Maui.

 

Have fun out there! I've heard a lot about Vivant. Perhaps I'd like the others more. The can was big at least that's a plus.

 

I picked up a mix 12 pack of Butternuts beer (solely because of the name) and was disappointed by everything but the Moo Thunder stout, which was quite good. I could barely make my way through the three Pork Slap pale ales, but YMMV. I might have been more impressed with it if it wasn't 20 bucks and change after tax...

 

As far as canned beers go, I'd have to pick DC Brau - The Citizen.

It gets pretty high marks for being a very "Belgian" American Belgian-Style beer.

It's also pretty damn delicious.

 

Drinking cans of Big Swell IPA on the beach of Paia Bay is my favorite thing to do, period.

 

I'm on a British Milds kick, and one of my local bottle shops has a bunch of milds in cans. They're really tasty.

There's something else that we can't do with bottles without skunking, that we can with cans. At least in snowy Michigan....



Chill em down.

 

best canned brew, well that's hard to pick just one..... some great ones are Surly, Oskar Blues, 21st Amendment, SNPA, Well's Bombardier, PU is pretty stellar in cans, as is Newcastle.

 

We don't get too much in the way of canned beer yet.

I like Oskar Blues. Southern Star also puts out some good stuff. I keep looking for the Newcastle cans but haven't seen it yet.

 

I haven't had many craft cans, but I'd have to go with NB's Ranger.

 

Oskar Blues Ten Fidy or Tallgrass Velvet Rooster!

 

Semi-related: http://www.craftcans.com/

 

Dale's was the first thing that came to my mind when I read the thread title.

 

I love me some Monk's Blood in a can, but it's definitely a winter beer.

 

Hop valley makes a great beer called alphadelic. Best canned beer I've ever had.

 

Is bpa lining something new in cans? I don't remember ever hearing about it before craft beers started canning. As for best canned beers, dales g'knight is my favorite.

 

I'd rather have a Genny Cream Ale than a Porkslap. That **** was gross.

I also thought the Moo Thunder was a diacetyl bomb.

 

21st amendment is great! love their Back in Black IPA

 

Cigar City is getting a canning line right now I believe.

 

i prefer boddington's out of the can over every time i've had it on tap

 

Heady Topper is my favorite can beer.

 

Fort George brewery in Astoria, OR cans some of their beers. Just released their sunrise oatmeal pale ale. Very good. They also have vortex IPA, 1811 lager, and cavatica stout in cans. Great beers.

 

Sun King Osiris

 

Revvy, I just saw Cain's mild and bitter at my local store. Didn't grab them but they definitely caught my eye. Any good?

 

I have been drinking a lot of this:



It's great IMHO, as of late it has taken over SNPA as my go to session beer.

 

Daisy Cutter from Half Acre in Chicago!

 

Caldera IPA and Dales Little Yella Pils. 21st Amendment Black IPA is awesome too but, can't get it here.

 

The Vortex is a great IPA and I just tried the Sunrise and the 1811 the other night. Fort George makes some great canned beers. My other favorite canned beers right now are 21st Amendment.

Totally off topic, but have you tried the Bourbon Barrel Cavatica? One of the local watering holes had it on tap but the keg went dry on the pint before mine. I was really looking forward to that beer!

 

Great stuff and in tall boys.

 

Tallgrass Brewing out of Manhattan, KS makes some mighty fine canned beers. I like Surly too but can't get it down here.

http://www.tallgrassbeer.com/

 

that's some good stuff! 21st A makes some great beer, the Bitter American and IPA are my two faves.

 

When I was in CO in December I heard rumors that New Belgium was working on a beer specifically to release in tall boys. I can't verify any details though.

 

I've been going through a lot of the Bitter American too. Love the flavor and the fact I can drink more than a couple and still be OK.

As far as other canned beers I really like Dale's Pale Ale and the Surly offerings. My brother-in-law brought over a couple Young's Double Chocolate Stout in cans too that were good.

 

I have not been able to try it. I've heard it was great though.

 

I like Maui Brewing Co. as well. My favorite is their CoCoNut porter. It's delicious.

 

Wait until you all get Oskar Blues Deviant. Being canned now, they're doing a roll out here in Philly. It has the biggest hop aroma I have ever smelled/tasted in a beer period.

 

I had a 21st Amendment Hop Crisis the other night that was amazing. Something like 9.5% ABV, 85 IBUs and Barrel Aged all in a can. So good!