As craft brewers expand into beverages beyond beer, many are under the impression that a counter pressure canning system is required to meet the carbonation levels of seltzers and other higher-carbonation beverages. But new research from Cask Global Canning Solutions (the inventor of micro-canning for craft brewers) reveals that such [...]
Nearly 175 years after selling its first sake, Japan’s pioneering Kiuchi Brewery became one of Japan’s first craft brewers. In 1996 Kiuchi released its first Hitachino Nest beer in brown bottles bearing Hitachino’s now beloved owl logo. In 2014, Kiuchi added to its list of innovative moves by putting its [...]
With most of the world in a shelter-in-place mode, Cask Global Canning Solutions is deputizing longtime customers around the globe to conduct canning system installations. Cask has recently enlisted Olof Haggstrom, founder of Sweden’s pioneering Can Man mobile canning service, to install three new Cask systems in Sweden. Chas Love, [...]
When it opened in 2015, Denver’s resurrected Tivoli Brewing Company sold retro-minded beers in throwback stubbies, to echo its 150-years-plus Colorado history. But a year after giving cans a try on a Cask Micro-Automated Canning System, the brewery’s bottle-focused plans have shattered like glass. “We’re trying to sell our bottling [...]
After years as a draft-only brewery, Waterloo, Iowa’s SingleSpeed Brewing has dramatically increased its speed of growth thanks to cans and Cask equipment. “Adding cans to our line-up,” says founder Dave Morgan, “has more than doubled our production level. It is the first extension we’ve done in an off-premise setting [...]