so I got this beer Lord Hobo Five and realized the label was stuck on another can. Took the label off and it was a Museum can. My question is: Is it Museum with a new label? Did they just use left over cans? Give me your thoughts please. Oh yeah the born date is 06/2020
Yep. And word on the street is that there's a 16oz can shortage coming soon, and I have no doubt that we'll be seeing more of this.
Partially, it's a downstream effect of the 'Rona. Lots of manufacturing was shut down. Also, industry consolidation. One if the major can makers bought another. That's a choke point. And, on a tertiary level, a large aluminum smelter, owned by Alcoa, in my county is being shut down, forever. How much that will effect things remains to be seen.
It wouldn't be all that surprising given the increase of breweries being forced to can their beer to secure sales during the pandemic and beer that would otherwise be earmarked for draft also going into cans.
BREWBOUND's got a recent article about the possible can shortage Can Inventory Running Low Nationwide; Ball Corporation Plans to Build Two Plants ...although it only discusses can manufacturer Ball and the "middleman" business American Canning - which apparently buys their cans from the large can manufacturers and resells them in smaller lots to breweries. The other 2 large US can mfg. companies are Crown and Ardagh Group.
Anecdotally, one of the local brewers here relabeled "standard" line-up cans for a special release. I assumed it was because of a shortage of blanks and/or they don't have that "standard" beer in tanks right now.
I had seen this even before COVID, when Toppling Goliath used Golden Nugget cans (now discontinued outside of their taproom) to package Twisted Galaxy and Supa Sumo. You could still see the Golden Nugget art underneath the shrink wrap.
