YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Just in time for the start of the fall semester and college football season, Penguin City Beer is releasing two limited edition YSU beer cans for the 2023-24 athletic season.

The cans will be available for sale beginning this week throughout the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys featuring the face of YSU athletics, Pete the Penguin.

Penguin City Beer co-owner Aspasia Lyras-Bernacki says these limited edition cans have become a Youngstown tradition.

"We love working with YSU Athletics and we love celebrating our partnership with these new designs every year. I love the excitement as people anticipate these new cans," Lyras-Bernacki said.

This year's design showcases the evolution of Pete. Penguin City brand manager, Michael Pontikos says this is a great change for previous years which primarily featured Pete and the YSU logo's current designs.

"This year, I wanted to go old school and bring back some of the earlier renditions of Pete. I found some really neat stuff in the archives and took some time to digitally retouch for this project and I wanted to make sure they maintained their original look and feel without looking too perfect in this digital world," Pontikos said.

The cans will launch on Wednesday, August 30 in the Penguin City Taproom in Downtown Youngstown, and will make its way into Valley retailers later in the week. It will also be offered at YSU football and basketball home games throughout the 2023-24 athletic season.