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» Beverage Industry News » News From The Breweries » Unfiltered Wheat in Aluminum

Unfiltered Wheat in Aluminum

Beverage Industry News» News From The Breweriesposted Mar 6th, 2009 06:29:56PM by pbrewadmin

Boulevard Brewing to package unfiltered wheat beer in 16-ounce aluminum bottles

Boulevard Brewing Co. began packaging some of its Unfiltered Wheat Beer in new 16-ounce aluminum bottles on Thursday. The product will hit the market April 1.

The Kansas City-based company produced about 2,700 cases of beer in the aluminum bottles on its initial run Thursday. The brewery will continue to offer its Unfiltered Wheat in glass bottles and barrels, as well.

“If you’re out mowing the lawn, out at the golf course or at the pool where you can’t have glass, you can now drink Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat in an aluminum bottle,” said John McDonald, Boulevard founder and president. “Being only in the glass bottle, we didn’t have access to venues like golf courses and stadiums. So that was a big reason.”

McDonald said the idea came from one of the early designs for a beer can, called a “cone top.” He said it was designed to fit on the same bottling equipment that beer companies already had. That made it attractive to Boulevard also because it recently installed a new $6 million bottling line in September.

McDonald said that other companies use plastic but that he ruled it out because plastic allows oxygen to enter the container.

The new packaging requires large volume to be economical, Boulevard Marketing Director Jeremy Ragonese said, so it will only be available for Boulevard’s top-selling Unfiltered Wheat.

The new aluminum bottles will be offered at convenience stores as a single-serve purchase, at various large grocery and liquor stores, and at venues such as golf courses and concerts.

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Comments

  1. liammckenna says

    March 12, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    Does it come with a micro dose of Bis-phenol A from the plastic liner that my body will accumulate over the years?

    Pax.

    Liam

  2. v2comp says

    March 13, 2009 at 2:22 am

    liammckenna wrote: Does it come with a micro dose of Bis-phenol A from the plastic liner that my body will accumulate over the years?

    Pax.

    Liam

    Yes it will!

  3. wiredgourmet says

    March 13, 2009 at 2:45 am

    What, you want to live forever?

  4. liammckenna says

    March 13, 2009 at 9:53 am

    I’m planning on it.

    Seriously though, hormone disrupters will be blamed for many health problems in the future. A group of German researchers have recently confirmed there biological activity in 75% of the PET samples they tested. We live in a plastic world.

    Pax.

    Liam

  5. Tlangle1 says

    March 13, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    Same liner material as aluminum cans, right? Or am I missing something?

  6. Moonlight says

    March 13, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    “What, you want to live forever?”
    That’s not the half of it!
    Ever met a woman whose hormones are not ideally balanced?…This could be you!

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