Beer Can & Breweriana Museum

[kevbosnafu]

I guess this is where I can toot my Beer Can Museum horn? I'm the curator of a small beer can museum near Cape Cod and am always up for a good breweriana trade! Also enjoy trying new beers and reading great beer books. I work in book publishing by day.



Beer Can & Breweriana Museum (http://kevslog.tripod.com/beercanmuseum/)

Take a virtual tour when you're bored!

Kevin (BCCA 30266)

[O2 Mash]

Very cool. What ever happened to the art of beer can collecting? It used to be huge when I was a kid. I had a big collection and sold it all for ten bucks :mad: Second stupidest thing I've ever done.

[chazwicke]

I have been collecting since the 1970s. (I'm BCCA 11890). I now only collect specific areas. Were you at the Blue / Gray show in February?

[kevbosnafu]

The Blue/Gray Show is one I dream about going to one day. I've never made it to a can-vention. Maybe when the kids make it through college.

[chazwicke]

I went to Canventions in Milwaukee, Phoenix, and Hershey years ago. I went to the one in Pittsburgh last September. It will be in Michigan this September. I helped set up the first two Blue Gray shows 25 years ago. I am a former officer of the Capital City Chapter and also a member of Richbrau Chapter. I dropped out of the BCCA for a few years but I did rejoin and have been back to Blue Gray for the past few years. The organizer, is a very good friend of mine. It is a show that is well worth attending. We had over 30 kegs of micro brews from all over the country and several small brewers brought corny kegs of limited addition beers they had made. Jeff Browning had a tremendous IPA.

[davesarman]

Originally posted by O2 Mash
What ever happened to the art of beer can collecting? It used to be huge when I was a kid.

I collected as well as a kid. Started out by riding my bike out in the country and bringing home all the cans I found in the road ditches. My mom would get so mad at me when I rinsed them out in the kitchen sink, all full of cigarette butts, bugs, etc...My collection grew to about 300 or so cans, but nothing extremely valuable. I remember staying with my brother in D.C. when I was in 8th grade and he took me to the Brickskeller. I made him and his wife drink some gawdawful beer that night so I could get the cans...I think my prized possession is the complete set of wildlife scene cans that Schmidt put out in the late 60's-early 70's...Never gave them away or sold them tho...still all in boxes in my basement....

[chazwicke]

I sold my collection of 4,000 cans, labels neons, glassware and signs in 1980 but immediately started collecting again. I now only collect select breweries so my collection is significantly smaller but more valuable. I started collecting in 1976 on my first night at the Brickskeller. The Bricks has had it's share of bad beers but also was the place where I had a bottle of New Albion Stout from Micro pioneer Jack McAuliffs first micro brewery. And they also brought in Prinz Brau from Alaska in the late 70s another early brewery. The bricks were the importers of the De Dolle breweries beers and Schiedmantle beers and others. You name it and they have done it if it involves beer.

[MARK123]

I did the same thing as a kid...Riding the bike, What seemed like forever in search of the "new can". We would ride the country roads of Wisconsin forever!!..I remember finding old trash sights, farmers would dump their trash on, and had been dumping there for 50 years. I remember finding my first "can opener" and "cone top" I still have them all!!!..Kinda cool to open them boxes and actually remember where I found some and the circumstances surrounding that particuliar find!

[kevbosnafu]

You always remember your first cone top.

good times!

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