Canning machine company rides canned craft beer wave to increased sales
CALGARY — For a certain generation of connoisseur, beer sold in aluminum cans cannot call itself “craft beer.”
But that’s changing to the relief of Peter Love, whose family-owned Calgary manufacturing business specializes in small-scale canning machines aimed at the craft brewing market.
“We have a snobby industry,” concedes the 65-year-old president of Cask Brewing Systems Inc.
Love has been trying to change beer snob attitudes since 1999, when his company came up with a manual canning system to sell to customers making small amounts of beer in brew-on-premises businesses in Ontario.