That changed one cold morning in early February when Tyler Willie, owner of Connecticut’s Iron Heart Canning, parked his truck outside Other Half and unloaded a portable cannery.
After set-up, he and the Other Half crew started siphoning Green Diamonds into 16-ounce cans. Four hours later, the tanks were drained and Willie’s wonderful machine soon returned to the road. “We have no space,” says Other Half cofounder Matt Monahan. “It’s awesome to have Iron Heart in and out, and then we have our product.” Most releases sell out the same day, or within several days, with customers toting cans across the city and shipping them across the country. “We don’t have a marketing budget,” Monahan says. “Cans are a good artistic expression of what we have going on as a brewery.”
