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Cans are huge in craft beer packaging today, with more consumers interested in taking their beer to places where bottles can’t go. In this section, learn more about the trends in canning, the impact of cans on brewery sustainability, selecting the canning line that is best for you, and much more.

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Supply Chain Updates Four quadrants showing cans, hops, barley, and water.

Supply Chain Updates

This harvest estimate update includes info on the barley and hop harvests, CO2 shortages, transportation, and cardboard and aluminum prices.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Supply Chain Subcommittee is concerned with the ingredients and materials that are used to brew and package craft beers. By monitoring hop and barley harvest, interacting with growers and examining packaging supplies, and monitoring glass and can markets, the Supply Chain Subcommittee works to ensure a stable marketplace and provide educational resources to the brewing community on best practices for sourcing and selecting ingredients and packaging materials to suit their beers.

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mobile playlist icon Understanding the Complex World of Can Liners overhead view of empty cans

Understanding the Complex World of Can Liners

Understanding a liner's composition and performing validation and quality checks are key actions to safeguard against corrosion and negative flavor impacts. Learn the basics of the many aspects of can coatings in this playlist.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Supply Chain Subcommittee is concerned with the ingredients and materials that are used to brew and package craft beers. By monitoring hop and barley harvest, interacting with growers and examining packaging supplies, and monitoring glass and can markets, the Supply Chain Subcommittee works to ensure a stable marketplace and provide educational resources to the brewing community on best practices for sourcing and selecting ingredients and packaging materials to suit their beers.

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Recap of 2023 Craft Beer Packaging Trends close up of canned beers packaged in yellow 15-pack

Recap of 2023 Craft Beer Packaging Trends

Take a deep dive into craft packaging in 2023 using scan data from both Circana and NIQ to understand the current facts and trends.Read More

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Vice President of Strategy & Chief Economist

Bart Watson, Vice President of Strategy & Chief Economist for the Brewers Association, is a stats geek, beer lover, and Certified Cicerone®. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where in addition to his dissertation, he completed a comprehensive survey of Bay Area brewpubs one pint at a time. You can follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, @BrewersStats.

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Pasteurization: Getting Started With the Basics Man operating canning line

Pasteurization: Getting Started With the Basics

Understand the pasteurization unit (PU) calculation, equipment used, validation points, factors affecting PUs, and safety considerations.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Quality Subcommittee envisions a membership that consistently produces beer of high quality. Quality for this purpose has been defined as: a beer that is responsibly produced using wholesome ingredients, consistent brewing techniques and good manufacturing practices, which exhibits flavor characteristics that are consistently aligned with both the brewer’s and the beer drinker’s expectations.

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Recycling-Focused Legislation Impacting Breweries aluminum cans and glass beer bottles

Recycling-Focused Legislation Impacting Breweries

Recent activity in state and federal recycling-focused legislation has the potential to impact small craft brewers.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Sustainability Subcommittee serves the Brewers Association purpose by helping current members and future generations to brew the highest quality beers in a manner that strengthens the value of our businesses, increases the resiliency of the natural environment and agricultural systems that provide brewing ingredients, and enhances the lives of our workforce and the communities we call home.

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Alternative Can Label Recycling Challenges stacks of blank aluminum cans x

Alternative Can Label Recycling Challenges

Plastic shrink wraps and PSLs provide brewers several benefits however, they can have adverse impacts to costs, safety, and the environment. Read More

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Brewers Association

The Sustainability Subcommittee serves the Brewers Association purpose by helping current members and future generations to brew the highest quality beers in a manner that strengthens the value of our businesses, increases the resiliency of the natural environment and agricultural systems that provide brewing ingredients, and enhances the lives of our workforce and the communities we call home.

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Craft Beer Packaging Trends Recap – 2022 purple beer cans condensation x

Craft Beer Packaging Trends Recap – 2022

What happened with craft packaging in 2022? Dig into pack counts, sizes and formats for craft beer in 2022.Read More

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Vice President of Strategy & Chief Economist

Bart Watson, Vice President of Strategy & Chief Economist for the Brewers Association, is a stats geek, beer lover, and Certified Cicerone®. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where in addition to his dissertation, he completed a comprehensive survey of Bay Area brewpubs one pint at a time. You can follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, @BrewersStats.

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Increasing Beer To-Go Sales through COVID-19 and Beyond! man leaving with to go beer 1200x628 1

Increasing Beer To-Go Sales through COVID-19 and Beyond!

As the industry continues to navigate the pandemic and beyond, consider these ideas to increase and maximize beer to-go sales at your brewpub.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Brewpubs Committee is a diverse group of brewers that share a passion for elevating the craft beer culture of all members and serve to help promote the vision of the Brewers Association. The Brewpubs Committee serves the BA vision by: developing and disseminating solutions that drive the greatest business value for our membership; sharing best practices, tools, and resources that are applicable to brewpubs of all sizes; and fostering a collaborative environment among brewpub owners, operators, and brewers, and ultimately, our guests.

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How Creative Brewery Partnerships Help the Recycling Conundrum sustainability recycling hero

How Creative Brewery Partnerships Help the Recycling Conundrum

This post includes a crash course in recycling, creative ideas for achieving your own recycling goals, and brewery specific case studies.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Sustainability Subcommittee serves the Brewers Association purpose by helping current members and future generations to brew the highest quality beers in a manner that strengthens the value of our businesses, increases the resiliency of the natural environment and agricultural systems that provide brewing ingredients, and enhances the lives of our workforce and the communities we call home.

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