By Kirk Miller A leading beverage can manufacturer is raising its minimum orders five-fold starting today, which could financially hurt smaller craft brewers. Ball Corp., which now will also no longer store pallets of cans for the small brewers, is blaming increased demand for their aluminum cans during the pandemic, along with supply chain issues and inflation, for the new directive. The minimum order is, roughly, now one million cans, up from 200,000 cans. “For us, it created quite a scramble. We went down the path of trying to figure out how to react and how to make our business sustainable…