My Orange County brewery visit list is getting too long and one of those on that list is Villains Brewing in the old Modern Times spot near Unsung and Monkish.
But they have made things a little easier with….cans!
Canned Villains
HopSaint Canned
One L.A. brewery who didn’t jump straight to canning was HopSaint from Torrance. But now, I have started to see good beer shoppes start to carry five of their beers from Kolsch to Hazy.
Written in Chalk
News from Beachwood….”In the beginning… Beachwood’s beer was written on small chalkboards and hung from behind the bar. It’s a tradition we continue at our original brewing location in Long Beach. As a tribute to that, we’re launching “Chalkboard Series,” a rotating selection of small-batch canned beers, available only at Beachwood’s own locations.”
The series started last week with a classic pale ale. Their first-ever pale ale in cans.
CAN-ador
It’s the tiny mysteries that sometimes excite the most, like this….
What will Cellador be putting into these cans? Their palate cleansing Pilsner? One of their cocktail inspired ales? Or something with peaches. What will it be?
Canning on the Move in SoCal
Sierra Madre may be known as an “off the 210” town but now Greg Kinne and Mike Nalick, co-owners of Beer Monks Mobile Canning will be driving their truck to breweries in the Southland.
The “company delivers and operates equipment on-site to produce as much as 1,800 gallons of canned beer a day. The canning machine fits on a box truck and can go anywhere a truck can — and the machine is small enough to fit through a standard door.”
This is that helpful “bridge” service for breweries that don’t have the capital to invest into lines (either bottles or cans) and / or don’t have space for said lines in their brewery. Kinne says “Our service allows us to deliver smaller quantities of cans and packaging materials — six packs and case trays — in a just-in-time fashion.”
Maybe Pacific Plate or Federal could do a test drive?