More beers in cans for the first time. It is the great beer can surge of 2010! With summer approaching, breweries are scrambling to get their beer into cans for vacation/outdoors season.

From the North Carolina-based brewery’s blog, “Triangle Brewing Company is extremely excited to announce that we have ordered our fully automated canning line. It will arrive this summer around the beginning of July and we will be rolling out our Belgian-Style Golden and Belgian-Style White in 12oz cans.” The brewery is also keeping it local in using a can supplier based out of North Carolina instead of the dominant Ball Corporation.

Starr Hill Brewery is also looking to enter the can game. Label approval came through earlier this spring for Starr Hill Amber Ale cans though the brewery has not made any official announcments about them yet so the timetable is still unknown. The beer is brewed and canned at Minhas Craft Brewery in Wisconsin “under supervision.” Note: for those that are loyal to “craft” and care about such things, Starr Hill announced that they made a pact with Anheuser-Busch back in 2008 for additional distribution.

Finally, Cisco Brewers has joined the can frenzy. Cisco Whale’s Tale Pale Ale cans are now available in shops in 12-packs. Photo courtesy of @BostonBottles on Twitter.