Together with KITCHENBREW we will be live showcasing our mobile canning process as part of the international beer-festival "Beer Dome Basel 2019" at the Markthalle Basel. This collab with Bierlager.ch and KITCHENBREW takes place in front of Markthalle Basel and can be attended free of charge. You can get the brew right from the canning line into your hands, super freshy fresh!

Friday, 29.11.2019, 18:00-19:00 in front of Markthalle Basel

Saturday, 30.11.2019, 16:00-19:00 in front of Markthalle Basel

In case you are not able to attend the event, be sure to follow us on Instagram, we will live stream the event on Saturday, 30.11.19, from 16:00 onwards.

Our first experience on can fermentation

Video: labelling the Sutton cans

Not every craft beer brewery is able to lager their beer in bright-tanks under pressure. Many still rely on so called "bottle fermentation". We started the mobile canning revolution in Switzerland, also due to the fact that cans, as our preferred package for beer, are fermentation friendly. We knew fermentation within the can would work well by theory and as we have seen and experienced it abroad. However, we never tried it ourselves until two weeks ago:

We teamed up with Brauerei Sutton, an English Real Ale enthusiast, brewing his delicious beers in Dallenwil, close to Engelberg. Tim, the brewer and owner, was eager to can his beers and we really wanted to gain hands-on experience on secondary fermentation within our cans.

Two weeks after canning, we just yesterday tried and analized the final product:
With only 20ppb of oxygen left and a final carbonation of 3.4g/litre within the can, the quality is outstanding!
After pouring the VICTORIA ALE SPEZIAL 1868 it develops a nice and dense foam, adding its share to the whole drinking experience.
The cans did not deform nor burst. They are well "pressurized" and make a wonderful cracking sound, when they get opened.

Conclusion: Secondary fermentation or so called can fermentation does work perfectly well! We are now happy to welcome swiss brewers, willing to carry out second fermentation in cans.

have a look through the pictures below
Salute!

Valentin & Mo
LAB63 Mobile Canning

We can, they did!

The mobile canning revolution in Switzerland started!

We teamed up with two different breweries, both putting freshly brewed swiss craft beer into 33cl blank cans:

1. Cream Ale, single hopped with Loral hops (US) and smoothly refined with oat and honeymalt, 5% ABV
2. Sour IPA, Amarillo, Mosaic, El Dorado and Bitter Gold hops, IBU: 30, EBEC: 9, 5.8%ABV

The sour IPA was launched swiss wide at DRINKS OF THE WORLD, just a few days after canning.

The filling itself went smooth, marginal loss mainly due to good product conditions and a well prepared team. Only drawback: As labels got delivered the wrong way, we had to organize additional "Can Flippers", flipping all the cans up side down by hand before they got labeled. We had a blast anyway!

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Video

have a look at our LAB63 Instagram or check out this video shoot by Dr. Brauwolf and his team.