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Nitro coffee in a can tastes like it’s from a tap

Cuvée Coffee’s cold-brew nitro coffee in an aluminum can uses widget technology to achieve the same smooth, foamy pour as achieved from a tap.

Cuvée Coffee’s Black & Blue nitro coffee in a widget can
Cuvée Coffee’s Black & Blue nitro coffee in a widget can

The first to the table with nitrogenized coffee in a can, Cuvée Coffee of Spicewood, TX, can’t keep up with the demand for its Black & Blue cold-brew nitro coffee. That’s according to Mike McKim, founder and CEO of Cuvée, who says that while the product was originally launched in kegs, “cans were always the end game, for all the same reasons that the craft beer industry has adopted them.”

He adds, “I’m a craft beer enthusiast, and I love all the advantages that cans bring to the table for premium beverages.” Among them, convenience, portability, sustainability, and protection from oxygen and light.

Cuvée Coffee was founded in 1998 by McKim as an exploratory hobby. As he experimented with specialty coffees, he found a large market for his products. Today Cuvée operates a coffee shop, training facility, and retail location selling its handcrafted coffees.

In 2014, when Cuvée investigated the possibility of introducing its nitro coffee to retail, the challenge was finding a packaging technology that could create the same smooth, foamy pour as achieved from a tap. “Obviously the first call I made was to Guinness to inquire about their widget,” says McKim. “Their technology was not available for license, but fortunately I read a press release about Oskar Blues releasing a nitro beer in a Ball widget can,” he says.

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