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Full metal ale: One-of-a-kind machine keeps the flavor in the cans for Big Sky Brewing

The new canner at Big Sky Brewing Co. http://bigskybrew.com/index.aspx is the only one of its kind in the world, a revolution in the craft brewing industry.

The major life-giving force for humans – oxygen – happens to be death to craft beer, which is generally unpasteurized and still alive when it reaches the consumer.

Craft brewers have battled against oxygen and its beer-killing ways for many years by bottling, which involves less oxygen, and leaving the canning up to the big domestics. Those firms pasteurize their beer, effectively rendering it unaffected by oxygen but also killing some of the flavor.

By TIMOTHY ALEX AKIMOFF of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2009/03/27/news/top/news01.txt

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