The three largest American craft breweries — Boston Beer Co., Sierra Nevada Brewing and Fort Collins-based New Belgium Brewing — all have added cans while continuing to sell beer in bottles, too.

In 2002, just one craft brewery was using cans. Now around 300 different breweries offer close to 1,000 beers in cans, according to CraftCans.com, a site that tracks the canned beer revolution.

Craft Beer is Getting Craftier: Why Cans May Be Better Than Bottles You wouldn't normally associate fine wine with a cardboard box, and it's similarly hard to imagine great beer coming from a can.

If you're a craft beer aficionado, you've probably noticed the extra-tall 19.2-ounce aluminum beer cans currently gracing store shelves. Those "stovepipe" cans, as they're known in the craft ...

What once might have been considered taboo to the taste buds, beer in a can has become increasingly popular among younger consumers. Here’s what California North Coast brewers are doing.

This enables craft beer producers who might be lacking certain resources – such as space for equipment, or capital for investment – to package and sell beer in cans. "Rather than compete with ...

Consumers and craft beer aficionados have long considered cans fit only for the Miller Lites and Milwaukee’s Bests of the world. But that's changing as can technology improves and the economics ...