While visiting Fat Bottom Brewery's West Nashville home recently, we got a firsthand look at how the brewer cans its beers.
The beer starts by fermenting for weeks in tanks. When the beer is matured, it is filtered and then goes into the filling process. Large pallets of empty, pre-printed beer cans without tops are placed onto a conveyor belt to be sorted and cleaned. Then the cans are filled with beer and capped. After some twists and turns on the conveyor belt, the cans go through quality control,…