USA, NE: Nebraska Brewing Company to sell beers in cans, add two beers to Reserve Series

Nebraska Brewing Company is looking to get into packaging beyond its big-bottle Reserve Series program, beerpulse.com reported on November, 14.

“We have distributors that are pulling a lot harder than we can supply the liquid,” says founder Paul Kavulak.

The company still has yet to make a decision between bottles and cans but is leaning toward cans.

On the topic of barrel-aging, the company decided to graduate two of the Inception Series beers into the Reserve Series, Sexy Betty and Responsibly, both of which are beers aged in Cognac barrels. Those beers came to fruition thanks to a happy accident in which the brewery was unable to procure Stanahan Whiskey barrels during a trip to Colorado. Those beers will now be aged in Brandy barrels (virtually the same as Cognac except that they don’t originate in France) and will return next fall (tentatively October).

Kavulak says there is fertile ground when it comes to brewers experimenting with barrels outside of ones traditional used like bourbon and whiskey.

23 November, 2012