Do you collect any beer memorabilia?

Discussion in 'Breweriana' started by Stugotzo, Feb 25, 2013.

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Do you collect any of the following?

  1. Beer bottle caps

    68.6%
  2. Beer bottles

    45.1%
  3. Beer cans

    9.8%
  4. Beer labels

    33.3%
  5. Beer coasters

    43.1%
  6. Ladies undergarments (or men's, if you're so inclined)

    5.9%
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  1. Stugotzo

    Stugotzo Initiate (0) Jun 13, 2012 Florida

    I started out just collecting the caps from the bottles I drank.... then I started keeping the bottles, which took up way too much room. Came across a bunch of threads about removing labels. So, now I remove labels every few weeks or so, and put them into a dossier of sorts (I refuse to admit it's really a scrapbook). :grimacing:

    Now, every time I come across a nice beer coaster, when the server isn't looking, I stuff it into LOML's purse, and pretend I never had a coaster. :astonished:

    Is it just me, or do other BA's out there share this disease? :confused:
     
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  2. raymo55

    raymo55 Initiate (0) Oct 3, 2011 Michigan

    Most of us collect.........just beer.
     
  3. JuliusCaesar

    JuliusCaesar Initiate (0) Feb 18, 2013 New Hampshire

    Sometimes I'll hold onto a bottle for a while but eventually my girlfriend will give me shit for being a hoarder and I'll throw it out.
     
  4. loafinaround

    loafinaround Initiate (0) Jul 16, 2011 New York

    hahaha.. men's underwear. good one dude.

    Nah, I collect nothing. I just drink and pitch empty bottles. I even have only bare essential glassware: only have 2 tulips, one cognac glass, and a guest tulip.
    I maintain a scorched earth policy at home. Not clutter. It's the only way I can keep this place kinda sane w/ my kid.
     
  5. ZachOfAllTrades

    ZachOfAllTrades Initiate (0) Dec 30, 2012 Indiana

    I keep a couple bottles that I really like, but not many. I just take pictures of every bottle I drink (at home). I try to get a picture if it's not intrusive at the bar/friend's house.
     
  6. KFBR392

    KFBR392 Initiate (0) Jul 29, 2012 Illinois

    I have a shelf which holds about 60 bottles that I rank on awesomeness. Pretty nerdy but it is pretty cool to look at.
     
  7. frankiepop

    frankiepop Initiate (0) Mar 7, 2011 Pennsylvania

    i collected the artisan beer chalices from ommegang brewery http://tinyurl.com/bkb5bkd
     
  8. Giovannilucano

    Giovannilucano Maven (1,424) Feb 24, 2011 Pennsylvania

    I collect Italian craft bottles and the caps for my friend!
     
  9. jtdolla911

    jtdolla911 Initiate (0) Nov 18, 2011 Massachusetts

    I collect coasters. When the lady and I go for drinks, she hides them in her purse to be sneaky. I just ask to take them.
     
  10. Stevedore

    Stevedore Grand Pooh-Bah (5,072) Nov 16, 2012 Oregon
    Pooh-Bah Society Trader

    I keep the bottles, clean off the labels with some oxyclean and reuse them for my homebrew.
     
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  11. Lethal04

    Lethal04 Initiate (0) Sep 3, 2009 Colorado

    Mainly collect bottle caps, but sometimes labels and coasters too. Have about 1000 or so caps saved up and will make a beer cap table soon.
     
  12. Uniobrew31

    Uniobrew31 Pooh-Bah (1,567) Jan 16, 2012 Pennsylvania
    Pooh-Bah

    Old beer trays, I got tons! Fun to collect trays from long lost beer brands!
     
  13. MetalMountainMastiff

    MetalMountainMastiff Initiate (0) Oct 1, 2012 California

    I keep all new caps....and some bottles...Not to keep the bottles, but maybe to break up and make some sort of glass mosaic for a bar top soon.
     
  14. tstigz

    tstigz Initiate (0) Dec 6, 2010 Illinois

    Yup, saving up for a beer cap table too. I probably have a couple hundred saved up over the past 9 months or so.
     
  15. WassailWilly

    WassailWilly Initiate (0) Sep 8, 2007 New York

    Need beer glasses in that list also
     
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  16. frazbri

    frazbri Initiate (0) Oct 29, 2003 Ohio

    I have some bottles from my earlier days, but don't save them anymore. I have a few coasters, and bottle caps, too, but my real collection is signage and glassware. The signs are almost all the metal tacker signs, about 35 hung in the mancave. The glasses are mostly shaker pints, but there are other styles as well. (most are boxed, but some are in use)
     
  17. BlastBeats

    BlastBeats Initiate (0) Mar 24, 2011 Illinois

    Yep, beer glasses for sure.. I think I have upwards of 85
     
  18. dap325

    dap325 Initiate (0) Apr 2, 2009 New York

    I collect glasses from the breweries I've visited. I also save each bottle I drink.. (multiples get recycled or used for homebrew). I hope to line the walls of my dedicated brew house/man cave with them some day.
     
  19. PapaGoose03

    PapaGoose03 Grand Pooh-Bah (5,291) May 30, 2005 Michigan
    Pooh-Bah Society

    I've collected bottles, some cans, and caps, and now some labels from the bottles that I've repurposed for home brew use. Plus I have quite a few logo pint glasses and some tulips/snifters. I also have coasters and some stickers and other miscellaneous trinkets, etc. So, for me, it's a collection of something of almost everything about beer.
     
  20. Stugotzo

    Stugotzo Initiate (0) Jun 13, 2012 Florida

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