(Papillion, NE) – Nebraska Brewing Company just turned five years old and is holding a number of celebration events this week.

As part of the festivities, founders, Paul and Kim Kavulak, and head brewer, Tyson Arp, jumped onto a Google+ Hangout with All About Beer Magazine on Wednesday afternoon.

Among the things learned was that Nebraska is looking to get into packaging beyond its big-bottle Reserve Series program.

“We have distributors that are pulling a lot harder than we can supply the liquid,” says Kavulak (Paul).

The company still has yet to make a decision between bottles and cans but is leaning toward cans.

On the topic of barrel-aging, just in the past week, the company decided to graduate two of the Inception Series beers into the Reserve Series, Sexy Betty and Responsibly, both of which are beers aged in Cognac barrels. Those beers came to fruition thanks to a happy accident in which the brewery was unable to procure Stanahan Whiskey barrels during a trip to Colorado. Those beers will now be aged in Brandy barrels (virtually the same as Cognac except that they don’t originate in France) and will return next fall (tentatively October).

After a discussion around Responsibly, Kavulak says there is fertile ground when it comes to brewers experimenting with barrels outside of ones traditional used like bourbon and whiskey.

That Reserve Series will now have seven occasionally-released beers.