True Blood a brew worth bottling for Krones

HBO's long running saga of steamy sex and vampirism in America's Deep South, True Blood, has won fans worldwide and made household names of many of its cast members, such as Anna Paquin, Alexander Skarsgård and Ryan Kwanten.

While it hasn't made it into the credits, beverage packaging company Krones may well have the right to claim it's the latest name to hitch its fortunes to the fangs and faeries saga.

In the most recent series of True Blood, now airing in Australia, Krone's bottling equipment has made a brief, but important cameo appearance.

One of the new storylines this year follows a governor of Louisiana vowing to crack down on vampires in the state, while behind the scenes he is involved in a presumed scheme to control the production and bottling of “True Blood” in his bailiwick.

“True Blood”, the product the series is based on, is a form of synthetic blood developed in Japan which has enabled the vampires of the world to break their dependency on the real human variety and thus “come out of the coffin”.

When the governor arranges a meeting with the chief of the manufacturer of True Blood to make an offer too good to refuse, he does it in a New Orleans bottling plant.

And which company's bottling line equipment is featured boldly in the scene – you guessed it, Krones!

It certainly shows the versatility of the German packaging equipment maker's systems.