We schedule canning every Friday, and we do our best to keep a consistent packaging schedule. However, beer is an active, living beverage. Sometimes, that means it needs a little extra fermentation time. When the beer requires we shift its packaging date, that limits our ability to offer it for early Friday pick-up.

Sometimes, we also have small fermentation runs or beers that yield less than anticipated. In these instances, we want to provide an opportunity for as many people as possible to obtain the beers by releasing them at the same time on the regular Saturday release date.

Our goal is to provide early access benefits as a really cool option to our Friends of the Brewery members, but we also don’t want to frustrate or upset brewery fans who are not part of the club. So to balance the opportunity to obtain the beer in advance and still have cans left for the general public, we limit the pre-release to two 4pks. This limit may be reduced to one 4 pk based on yield and/or batch size. If you would like to purchase additional 4pks of that beer, you are more than welcome to get that 4pk with the general public on Saturday or afterwards, pending availability.

When we brew a beer for a special cause, we try to raise as much money as possible. Therefore, donation beers are only eligible for purchase in our taprooms.

Yes. Members may redeem their weekly club benefits via, growler, crowler, 4pks and/or 6pks.

For most of our special releases, we put the majority of the beer into 4pks, leaving only a handful of kegs available for pint and sample sales. Once can sales are finished and if there are enough kegs available to provide for pint and sample service, we’ll then offer growler fills of these items to our members. You still get the same amount of fluid ounces in a 4pks as you do with a growler.

The Club benefits are intended to provide tremendous value to our loyal customers, and one of the trade-offs for that value is weekly allocations expire at the close of business on Sunday each week. So you must pick-up your weekly beer allotment during that week, as benefits are not carried over from week to week.

We regularly provide a monthly can release calendar to help forecast what will be available week by week for a given calendar month. You can also visit our Untappd page and select your preferred location to see which beers we have in stock: https://untappd.com/track7brewingco

Please keep in mind that there is always the potential for discrepancy between what is listed on Untappd and what is in stock at the breweries. We do our best to keep it updated, but inventory is dynamic and subject to changes.

In the spirit of pushing the envelope, our special can releases regularly rotate with imperial stouts, heavily fruited sours, and creative seltzers. We use real ingredients like fruit, vanilla, coffee, etc. In some cases a heavily fruited sour can contain up to 1200 pounds of real fruit. Or an imperial stout may contain close to 50 pounds of real vanilla, and/or 20 pound of local craft coffee.

Our costs of making beer have significantly increased over the past year as well. This includes price hikes for raw materials like grain, hops and yeast. Our costs are also affected by things like nationwide can shortages, product availability and elevated shipping fees.

The program has traditionally been a Membership based on growler fills. The special release cans have been an added bonus that we decided to make available because it has been an exciting added benefit. However, using quality adjuncts to create new beers does increase production costs for our specialty creations.