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Forget Bottles, What About Cans?
I had noticed that Cask did make canning machines, but I hadn't yet checked out the web site. Thanks for finding this! Looks like $15K for the basic manual canning system (I'll skip the sixpack rings). It says you could can one barrel per hour. So that means it would take about ten minutes to do a five gallon batch of homebrew. Not bad. But I think you'd need a lot of support equipment to pull it off. Looks like we have to leave canning to the professionals. Unless you could get your whole brew club to go in on one together.
And as far as Guinness goes, you can't beat the Foreign Extra Stout in the big bottles. No widget in that bottle. It's just so much moe robust than the normal Guinness Draught.
yup, $15K
Plus the minimun order of cans, to the tune of another $1.5K. (12oz)
that's at .10 per can for 150000 cans and tops
im4fishnak wrote:
OK, Here it is, this is how it can be done. Be sure to navigate to the vids, it's way cool. I guess you have to contact the company for prices. If anyone does, please post it.
How you can can your own beer
www.cask.com
this is how your craft brew got into cans
I got the price list from them,
http://www.cask.com/quotes/Canning%20Quote.pdf
be for warned, it's not cheap, but I'll venture it's the best value you will find.
How cool!! I want one. LOL Do you think asking Santa would work? It looks like something elves could make... maybe.....
and the video is awesome too....
FirePitBrew wrote:
brewchez wrote:
Pay attention to what you are buying with guiness. The cans are one type of beer and that's the traditional Draught Stout you are used to. You can get an export Stout in a bottle and a Porter in a bottle. All Guiness products, but not always the guiness you are looking for.I guess I should have been a little more specific. The 2 Guinness that I was talking about are the nitro can and nitro bottle with the black plastic label; not the extra stout in the short brown bottle.
They are the same beer, but the widgets are different. The can widget is meant for pouring into a glass. The bottle is meant to be drunk straight from the bottle because of the way each widget releases its nitrogen. The rule of thumb is if you have a glass, use a can. If you don't have a glass, drink from the bottle.
cans are a superior package but for 11k or even half that you can get a truck load of bottles and maybe even a 27 gallon conical ?
or you could just keg.
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