New Belgium taps aluminum cans for wheat beer

Last summer this innovative brewer rolled out its Fat Tire brew in cans. Now it's Sunshine Wheat's turn.

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New Belgium Brewing of Broomfield, CO, is packaging and distributing Sunshine Wheat in aluminum cans from Ball Corp. (www.ball.com) in Colorado this spring. The 100% recyclable cans feature Sunshine Wheat’s original watercolor artwork with color twist to reflect a summery green and yellow. Printing uses Ball’s Eyeris® enhanced printing technology to best reproduce the intricate details of the graphic design.

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