The people of Colorado have spoken, and the folks at Left Hand Brewing Company have answered. Starting in the fall of 2016, fans of the Longmont-based brewery will be able to enjoy their favorite Left Hand brews in cans while out playing on the rivers and mountainsides of the beautiful state of Colorado and beyond. For the first time in Left Hand’s twenty-two year existence, the craft brewery is incorporating cans into their growing line-up of packaged beers, which includes multiple Great American Beer Festival-medal winners and the first nitrogenated craft beer in a bottle.
While bottles have always been the staple of Left Hand’s off-premise presence, the future of craft beer packaging has been steadily leaning towards cans, a shift not lost on Colorado’s fourth largest brewery.
“We’re not in denial that craft beer drinkers want cans,” said Emily Armstrong, Media and Communications Manager at Left Hand. “Cans can go places that bottles can’t go, and it just makes sense, here in Colorado especially, where we have a wide array of outdoor activities.”
This fall, Left Hand will release their Extrovert IPA, the brewery’s recently released heavy-hitting American IPA, along with the brewery’s cult brew, the Milk Stout, in 12 oz. cans. Both beers will be available year-round. The brewery also plans to release the popular seasonal foreign export stout, Fade To Black, in cans this fall, with additional canned offerings following in 2017.
Left Hand’s canned craft beers will be available in all thirty-six states that the brewery currently distributes to.
