Canned craft brew.

[jtakacs]

UNBELIEVABLE.....I can't believe everyone just let this one slide. Must have been too much of a softball.

beat me to it - i was gonna post a picture of ben stein from ferris...

my local grocery store must thing canned micros are the way to go because they have a huge selection of canned beer... at least 10 different kinds... had to take a picture of their selection and text it to a brewing buddy of mine.. cracked me up.

honestly it's a great idea... however, i'm part of the group that will likely never buy a canned beer regardless... mostly because if i buy beer, it's usually something one-off, and i doubt i'm gonna find a flanders red in a can.

 

[GearBeer]

Cans are great for large distribution, small variety operations. The reason for this is the necessary massive order of cans (essentially a semi trailer's worth). Most breweries can't store or afford that much of a single packaging variety.

I drink a good bit of craft beer in the can. MillKing It Productions, the legally distinct inheritor of the defunct King Brewing Company (my former haunt, RIP ), cans their beer.

Canned beer is typically filtered, so you won't be able to harvest any useful quantity of yeast.

 

[Teromous]

That's a pretty good topic for consideration. I have no idea if anyone can-conditions beer, but it would be cool. I've had a few different canned craft beers...some good, some bad. Really it's not down to the can but the beer itself. I like the idea of canned beers because it takes up less space when recycling, and you can take them to places that don't allow glass (beaches, etc).

 

[Revvy]

but then again some breweries use a different yeast to bottle condition than they do to ferment the beer

But that's rarer than most folks think, really only some belgians, most beers have no reason to disguise their fermenting strain with another one, so for all intents and purposes you can tend to go with the idea that if it's an american craft beer of moderate gravity that the strain in the bottle IS the fermenting strain. Plus you can usually find online whether or not folks have harvested the yeast for sure. There's a pdf file that lists a ton that I've posted repeatedly here, but you can also type a google phrase like "harvesting yeast from beer X" and you'll see threads about it.