O’Reilly’s Stout in 16oz nitro cans by next March?
Posted on June 3rd, 2009 by jackc
That’s what Tim Ohst told Greg Kitsock for an All About Beer article on canned beers in the July issue.
Yeah, I’m as stunned as you are. They don’t tell me nuttin’ neither.
From the article:
Sly Fox is currently hatching plans to become the first American brewery to package beer (its O’Reilly’s Stout) in 16-ounce “widget” cans. this type of package, introduced ito the United States by Guinness in 1991, contains a plastic cartridge into which some beer and nitrogen gas is forced under pressure. When the top is punched in and the pressure released, the gas streams out rapidly, roiling the beer and creating the rich, creamy head of foam typical of a draft stout.“It’ll be quite an undertaking,” promises Ohst. The brewery will have to order the cans from a European manufacturer who sells them in minimum lots of around 500,000. The brew crew will also have to rig up a liquid nitrogen drip to inject the gas into the can. But it all goes well, Ohst hopes to have the cans on the market by St. Patrick’s Day 2010.
Dude!
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