At Mother Road Mobile Canning, we believe cans are the best way to get high quality beer to lots of (high quality) people. Not only do cans provide a way to get your craft product into new markets, and into wide distribution, it’s also a fantastic way to preserve taste and overall quality of the product. Even though conventional wisdom says bottles (especially for beer) are of higher quality than cans, by all accounts cans are just as good if not better. Here is a kernel of that argument from John Chilson at Askmen.com:

[blockquote]The biggest misconception about canned beer is that the aluminum can imparts a metallic taste. The insides of most cans and lids used for high-end craft beers have a sprayed coating, ensuring that there is absolutely no contact between the beer and the aluminum. Test the metal-taste theory: Pour a beer in a pint glass for a pal and have them taste it for any metal taste. Also consider that most people enjoy draft beer, which is housed in a metal keg. All you have to do is think of your canned beer as a mini keg. As far as storage goes, canned beer might have a slight advantage over bottles in that cans actually protect beer from light and oxygen. Cans are airtight and oxygen-free. When light consistently hits a bottle of beer, it can turn skunky and ultimately undrinkable. Oxygen can also leach into a bottled beer under the bottle cap and affect the taste, which could potentially destroy the beer.[/blockquote]

Read more about the benefits of canned beer in the full article here.