Beervana Podcast, Episode 47: Bottles and Cans at Hopworks Urban Brewery

Trever Bass, brewer at Hopworks Urban Brewery. (Photo by Jeff Alworth)

Jeff Alworth and Patrick Emerson visit Hopworks Urban Brewery in Portland, Oregon, to learn about the packaging side of craft beer. Hopworks has both a canning line and a bottling line, and they discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both and go deep into the details of canning–increasingly the preferred package type for many small breweries. 

Jeff Alworth is the author of The Secrets of Master Brewers, The Beer Bible and Cider Made Simple. You can find him blogging at Beervana. Patrick Emerson is a professor of economics at Oregon State University as well as a research fellow at the Center for Applied Microeconomic Research at the São Paulo School of Economics (C-Micro). You can also find him blogging at Beeronomics.

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