Hi beer guy's and gal's……..Val here…… wondering where in the world is my new canning machine?

Yes, we are finally retiring our bottling machine, ,after it's long 10 year service with us, pumping out your favourite Neustadt suds.  The word on the street (LCBO) was .473ml single serve cans are the hottest thing around, so we had a meeting of the committee ……….me (the beer babe), Andrew (the Brewmaster)and the beer bitch (Vicki, our production manager) I think the mascot "Dolly" was there as well and made a corporate decision…………..Neustadt was going canning!

We ordered our canning machine last November, from Frusso in Argentina and because it is a prototype,we had to wait for it to be built and tested, somewhere in the depths of Argentina. We then found out the wooden crate it was being shipped in was not allowed into Canada, unless it underwent a special process to kill any bugs that might have hibernated in it.

Anyway, finally it was shipped from the mountains to the coast of Argentina (apparently it takes a week) and set sail for Canada on the 4th April 2007. Since then we had not heard any news, until last week when it should have arrived on the 16 May and to our dismay found it had been impounded by New York customs for 10 days. They finally released it on the 18 May into Canadian Customs………….. but it was the Canadian May 24 weekend…… so we have lost track of it again! If anybody out there finds a Frusso canning machine please tell it to phone home!

Posted by Val Stimpson, Neustadt Springs in Neustadt