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One side effect of buying pretty much nothing but 4-packs is that you create quite the colorful collection of snap-tight plastic can holders. Maybe you have been recycling them but another way to help the green new deal is to return them to a brewery. Boomtown recently messaged how they would take them and I have seen that Common Space has a collection box too. Call or message first for other breweries but let’s all pitch in.
Be on the lookout for a lovely sampler pack of Lindeman’s lambic ales. You get “one 8.45 oz. (250 mL) bottle each of Framboise(raspberry), Pêche (peach), Kriek (cherry) and Apple (aka Pomme) lambics.”
4-Pack Release Alert and Ladyface Brewery is a combo I did not think I would write. But here we are with the Agoura Hills first ever canned releases. Featured in the trio starting with the appropriate Trois Filles Belgian Tripel, Ladyface IPA, and Anime Pale Ale.
I would tend to the Tripel but am tempted to try the Pale Ale for the first time.
White Labs will be selling cans but with their dual twist. And their first release is their signature, Tabberer IPA® The twist being that you will buy a four pack with two different yeasts, WLP001-California Ale and WLP008 – East Coast Ale.
The IPA is named after “Horace Tabberer Brown, a British chemist, who shared a passion for science and brewing. While working as a brewer in the late 1800s, he set up a small lab on-site, which became the first record of a scientist using a microscope in a brewery.”
If you are in California or North Carolina you will be able to buy this and future releases.
When these started to become ubiquitous….
…but hopefully, the haze sellers will also start to add themselves to the PakTech list of places where these little holders can be recycled. Maybe even have a punch card for each set that is returned so it can be re-used.