“Welcome to the future,” Greg Shuff, owner of DryHop Brewers in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, said as he approached his brewery’s new toy.
He grabbed a disarmingly large 32-ounce aluminum can still missing a lid — the can was about the size of a baby’s leg — and raised it to one of his six taps. He filled the can with Comrade Mendeleev, a moderate-alcohol porter, until the beer’s thin foamy head bubbled just over the lip of the can.
Oskar Blues, the Colorado brewery that helped spark the canned craft beer movement, introduced the 32-ounce poured-to-order can, called a crowler, this year. It also began offering the technology to other breweries. DryHop is the first in Chicago to sell the cans…CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY AT THE MIAMI HERALD
