Modus Operandi are Selling 1L Cans of Craft Beer Straight From the Brewery

It's usually safe to assume that bottled beer is better than canned. Conjuring up unappealing images of the VB tinnies in your granddad's fridge, your options for canned beverage usually consist of the bottom rung of local draught offerings. Unless you're heading to a festival, you'll usually skip over the canned section of the bottle-o entirely. Rightly so.

But now, local brewers Modus Operandi are reinvigorating the tired tinnie with the "CANimal" — at 946mL of crushable aluminium glory it's being touted as the biggest beer can in the country. In an Australian first, they are also selling this frothy beast straight from their Mona Vale brewery. Pulled from the tap and canned on request, you can fill this absolute behemoth with any of the craft brews they offer on site.

Modus Operandi will in fact be the second brewery in the world to offer the service and, somewhat unsurprisingly, the owners got the idea while travelling in America. While they're a nation known for their excess and love of comically large foodstuffs, beer cans are also much more common in the US. It was only a matter of time 'til they dared to make one that packed in an arm-buckling litre of liquid.

"[With cans] you have the freedom of storing beer longer and eliminating the negative effects of UV light in a portable, unbreakable and crushable vessel," brewery owner Grant Wearin told Good Food. And, while we're not sure how portable they really are for people like us (puny armed schooner drinkers), we're willing to give them a go. Oktoberfest is coming up. The CANimal is basically a pre-packaged stein.

Modus Operandi Brewing Co is located at 14 Harkeith Street, Mona Vale. The brewery is open from 12pm - 10pm from Wednesday - Sunday and you can get yourself a CANimal for $17-21 depending on the type of beer.

Via Good Food and Crafty Pint. Images via Modus Operandi's Brewing Co.