Remember this ad? It contained the aptly named slogan, "Nice Cans"! It was for the old St. Provo Girl brand from Squatters (now just Provo Girl) that had to go away in 2001 because tiny micro breweries were such a threat to international conglomerates. Yeah, we're talking about you St. Paulie Girl!
These were some of the first canned beers to feature products from the state of Utah since the 1960's. They were a little ahead of their time, while they sold - they never really caught on with beer snobs and they eventually went away.Now craft cans are much more widely accepted with "reglar folk" and "beer dorks" alike. It's a better package for the product and it's much more conducive to Utah's active - high desert lifestyle.
Lead by Bohemian Brewing, Moab, Uinta and now the Utah Brewers Cooperative are now offering canned beer. Four local favorites (new & old) are (and will be) for sale now and ready for consumption. Hop Rising Double IPA and Full Suspension Pale Ale are the first beers from the Squatters camp and Ghostrider White IPA from the Wasatch side. Look for Wasatch's Apricot Hefeweizen in cans as well soon.As of today, just Full Suspension and GhostRider are available and they're at the Beer Store - 1763 South 300 West, Salt Lake City. What do you think, Are you down with this canned beer trend?
We have more cool beer news set for tomorrow- Stay Tuned!
Cheers!
9 comments:
Bring on the cans!
Bring on the cans!
I wasn't a big fan of the Provo Girl beer in the cans, but I've been enjoying all of the beers that Bohemian has been canning for years now. I think Full Suspension would lend itself to cans very well. They need to get these out in circulation, not just in the Beer Store, and they need to do it yesterday!
They will be out soon. They just canned them! Sheesh. :)
I've been loving Hop Notch in the can, and I will love Hop Rising in a can. Can away!
I went at lunch and they had Ghostrider, Hop Rising and Full Suspension all in 12oz six packs.
I really like the cans. I'm pretty sure my disk golfing improved dramatically this summer due to the increased quality of canned beer available to me.
if they were BPA free, I would be a fan, but I have yet to hear of a brewer committing to BPA free cans, so I stick to bottles and growlers.
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