If you find yourself mostly buying cans these days, there is a good reason. Sure, there is the recyclability, the preservation of flavor and the portability, but they might actually… Read More

Just yesterday, almost simultaneously, I received press releases from two totally different breweries — Longmont, Colo.-based Oskar Blues Brewery and Cleveland-based Platform Beer Co. — about new hard seltzer lines… Read More

Unlike the rest of the world, I’m not in Denver at the Great American Beer Festival right now. My schedule didn’t allow it this year. But it’s cool! Everything is… Read More

The Can’d Aid Foundation was formed as an immediate response to the massive flooding that devastated Oskar Blues Brewery’s hometowns of Lyons and Longmont, Colo., in September 2013. Since then,… Read More

Last week, Oskar Blues Brewery announced its variety pack was going from a 12- to a 15-pack, encapsulating the brewery’s best core offerings with three extra brewskis. This week, the… Read More

The Oskar Blues Brewery CANundrum variety pack, previously presented as a 12-pack, will now available as a 15-er dream team of the brewery’s best core offerings starting Sept. 1. Oskar… Read More

Plastic isn’t really green in my mind, but there are some arguments for its carbon footprint that you’re about to read. I just noticed (rather late) that Dow Packaging and… Read More

What’s worse than Monday mornings? Monday afternoons. They should all be destroyed. The boredom of this particular Monday afternoon would make paint drying seem like pornography. The only two minutes… Read More

“When you go into a recycling stream, they’d rather have cans than any other substrate,” explains John Hayes, CEO for can-makers Ball Corp., in the video above. Ball and client… Read More

To understand why beer matters, we first need to understand the mind. What is the mind? Is it just the product of synapses firing inside your skull? That’s part of… Read More