We understand that for many breweries crowlers are a way to get any beer a customer chooses out the door with the hope that people are going to drink that beer fresh and fast, very similar to growlers.
Well we've been hearing some bad stigma about crowlers, and we've even experienced some ourselves. We've seen for ourselves other breweries taproom employees improperly filling crowlers, pouring the beer into the can like a pint glass, inundating it with oxygen. leaving them stale and undercarbonated even opening the can the next day.
We've turned the crowler into our main off sale package, leaving growlers by the wayside for many reasons. We played around with filling them directly off the faucet like a pint glass, even with a purge, but didnt have good results with package stability, or carbonation. We wanted to fill them just like a high quality canning line. So We invested in flow control faucets so we can control how fast the beer is filling our cans and developed a filler based on a counter pressure filler we had handy. It purges the Cans with co2 and fills slowly from the bottom up. We made a small video to show the process. One person can actually fill double (maybe more) the cans normally possible. It might not be feasible for many breweries, but i thought we'd at least share what works for us.
Well we've been hearing some bad stigma about crowlers, and we've even experienced some ourselves. We've seen for ourselves other breweries taproom employees improperly filling crowlers, pouring the beer into the can like a pint glass, inundating it with oxygen. leaving them stale and undercarbonated even opening the can the next day.
We've turned the crowler into our main off sale package, leaving growlers by the wayside for many reasons. We played around with filling them directly off the faucet like a pint glass, even with a purge, but didnt have good results with package stability, or carbonation. We wanted to fill them just like a high quality canning line. So We invested in flow control faucets so we can control how fast the beer is filling our cans and developed a filler based on a counter pressure filler we had handy. It purges the Cans with co2 and fills slowly from the bottom up. We made a small video to show the process. One person can actually fill double (maybe more) the cans normally possible. It might not be feasible for many breweries, but i thought we'd at least share what works for us.
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