Many Beer drinkers approve of Blue Moon’s new light citrus wheat beverage LightSky. To meet the demand, Molson Coors recently installed a massive filler in Miller Valley to ramp up its production of its top-selling new beer.
The new 182-valve filler is designed to fill both LightSky’s slim can as well as industry standard 12-ounce cans before they move on to a seamer where the almost-ready cans receive their lid. Weighing in at 20,000 kilograms or 44,092 pounds, the new piece of equipment can fill 1,700 cans per minute as the filler rotates.
“Combined with other investments coming over the new few months, Molson Coors will be able to quadruple the amount of LightSky produced by early 2021,” company spokesman Marty Maloney said.
Blue Moon LightSky is a 95 calorie beverage brewed with tangerine peel and dry hopped with Azacca hops, which are known for producing citrus and tropical fruit tones. It has an alcohol by volume of 4% and 10 International Bitterness Units.
It’s one of four new low-cal, low-alcohol brews that Molson Coors launched in 2020. The other beverages include Keylightful, a fruity raspberry-lime light beer; Leinenkugel’s Spritzen, a seltzer beer; and Coors Peak, a 92-calorie, 3.8% light beer packaged in slims cans.
