Home Brewers - canning

[StrangeGuyEngineering]

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Has anyone found a good canning system for homebrew? Do the canning companies respond to requests from people who are not microbreweries?

I have been thinking about canning for years and researching their machines, but they don't post pricing online. They seem to be all geared to microbreweries and bigger.

Heard of the mobile canners, but there are not any near me.

Cheers, Conrad

[Spike Innovations]

Most mobile canners will not show up to can unless you have a minimum of 10-15 BBls (310-465 gals) of product to can in a day. The investment in a canning line, coupled with the labor to set up does not make it feasible on a small scale, especially homebrew.

Not to mention the amount of beer that is wasted in order to dial the system in for proper fill heights and reduced foaming would near leave you with almost no beer on a homebrew scale.

Simple manual canning systems are over $60k brand new. Best to stick to bottles and kegs

[Spike Innovations]

Most mobile canners will not show up to can unless you have a minimum of 10-15 BBls (310-465 gals) of product to can in a day. The investment in a canning line, coupled with the labor to set up does not make it feasible on a small scale, especially homebrew.

Not to mention the amount of beer that is wasted in order to dial the system in for proper fill heights and reduced foaming would near leave you with almost no beer on a homebrew scale.

Simple manual canning systems are over $60k brand new. Best to stick to bottles and kegs