Getting canned

Steve`s keeps cocktails fresh in cans.

I walked into Steve’s liquor store on University Avenue hoping to replenish the canned cocktails my wife and I have grown fond of. Her favorite, the Aviation, was in stock; my fave, the Hurricane, was not.

Pete Baisden walked over to see if he could help. No problem, he said, when I told him what I was looking for. He said he’d mix one up in a jiffy.

I followed Baisden to a room at the front of the store, where a scale sat atop a small table. He put a tall, aluminum can or “crowler” on the scale.

“We weigh each ingredient so each cocktail is the same,” says Baisden. “We use everything that we sell in the store.”...

The crowlers are sold only at the Steve’s University Avenue store....