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New Glarus Brewing will start offering cans of its beers beginning sometime this summer, president and founder Deb Carey said Wednesday.

Moon Man pale ale will be the first of the brewery’s products to hit the shelves after the addition of an $8 million canning line is completed, she said.

The lighter-weight cans will have positive environmental impact by reducing costs of transportation, Carey said.

A host of Wisconsin companies are involved with installing the canning line, which will fill 600 cans a minute, and creating the packaging, she said.

Carey said she expects the brewery will can its flagship Spotted Cow cream ale at some point as well.

Wednesday’s news came from an unexpected source: a video posted on Snapchat by former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold with the caption “Breaking News: New Glarus canned beer coming this summer.”