Oh yea. Cans are fantastic for storage,sharing, and oxidation. However it's getting it into the cans that worries me. I would gladly pay thousands of dollars for a surefire system.
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We finally agree on something.
I do not have much faith in the low DO levels of the portable canning systems the mobile canning lines use, having seen them in action at other breweries. I really like our Crowler machine, and I have had beer stay fresh in there for weeks longer than a growler but that seems cost prohibitive for a homebrewer (I think ours was 1500 bucks.
I am not aware of a vendor that sells small supplies of ready to use cans though maybe that was answered here.
Even regarding the use of a mobile canner understand that these ghuys are trying to make money and they are not going to want to regularly do regular runs off of 5 gallon corny kegs very often, even if you ended up have 20 brewers with 10 gallons of beer a piece. The amount of time alone in shutting the system down, swapping to other kegs, then starting up again would be a nightmare. On our bottling line when we have to shut down for any reason we end up having a few rows of low fills that sometimes may equal 2 or 3 gallons of beer. Not sure if canning line is same way.