Stone’s Mitch Steele Talks Cans & Collaboration

An interview with our pal Mitch Steele from Stone brewing…..details from Las Vegas Weekly:

On canned microbrews: Cans are a great package. From a quality standpoint, in some ways it’s better than a bottle, as far as air ingress. You just don’t get as much air into a can as you do in a bottle. Whether we’re going to do it or not, I don’t know. We certainly have discussed it very casually, and right now we don’t have the room to do it. I certainly don’t have a problem with a craft beer in a can. I’ll buy it and enjoy it. … It’s kind of a mind-set thing. I think people associate beer in cans with something that’s not at the same level of flavor or quality that people look at with a craft beer.

On collaboration beers: We’ve been brewing collaboration beers since 2008, so we’ve been doing it for a while. I see it continuing because, No. 1, it generates some excitement. Again, it’s an ability to do something new, and that’s what’s fun about collaborations. It’s a nice way to celebrate the camaraderie of the industry, which is really important to a lot of us.
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