Can collectors: show your cans!

Discussion in 'Breweriana' started by SirBottlecap, May 18, 2016.

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  1. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] I don't have a whole lot of 'em and most aren't really special or rare, but here are some of the ones displayed on Beer Wall #2. (Number one, of course, is all caps.)
    Many of the old ones in the first picture l found on hikes, like the Schlitz Stout Malt Liquor, which is full and in near-perfect condition. I recently added the AC/DC can (not the worst beer) and the "San Miguel Flavored Beer", which a friend brought back from the Philippines (maybe the worst beer ever; among the nine ingredients is "Nature ldentical"...???).
    What do you have? Post a picture or two!
     
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  2. jesskidden

    jesskidden Grand Pooh-Bah (3,145) Aug 10, 2005 New Jersey
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  3. zekeman17

    zekeman17 Pooh-Bah (2,082) Feb 14, 2010 Pennsylvania
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    Plus about 1000 more in storage. If anybody wants some for any reason, let me know.
     
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  4. Coronaeus

    Coronaeus Grand Pooh-Bah (3,744) Apr 21, 2014 Canada (ON)
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    Not a can collector, but I always kinda wished i were. If I started now, my wife would spend the rest of her life in prison for murder.

    Great thread and can't wait to see more photos!
     
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  5. PapaGoose03

    PapaGoose03 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,057) May 30, 2005 Michigan
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    Score = minus 2 points for neatness of the display. :wink:
     
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  6. jesskidden

    jesskidden Grand Pooh-Bah (3,145) Aug 10, 2005 New Jersey
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    Oh, well. Those "row upon row of cans" displays are so boring ....but I realize some folks just can't appreciate Artistic Asymmetry (or the high total cost of even the cheapest pine for shelving). :grinning:
     
  7. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    Is this an aerial view? Or is this a mountain??
     
  8. jesskidden

    jesskidden Grand Pooh-Bah (3,145) Aug 10, 2005 New Jersey
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    View behind the couch.
     
  9. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    You have a lot of nice ones in there! I like the Liberty Bell series in the middle, but l love the Robin Hood Cream ale!
     
  10. PapaGoose03

    PapaGoose03 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,057) May 30, 2005 Michigan
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    I'm a bottle collector instead of cans, but when a beer that I want to try or when a brewery from which I want a bottle but they only can their beers, well I'll take a can instead. Some of the other cans in the pic are oddities or collected for other reasons.

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  11. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    Cool! It's funny to see that Billy Beer in there with all those newer cans...I hope to find one someday!
     
  12. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    [​IMG] I'm not a motorcycle guy, but l've always dug these, too, especially the middle one. It is marked 'Sturgis" like the one on its left.
     
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  13. PapaGoose03

    PapaGoose03 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,057) May 30, 2005 Michigan
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    Mine was gifted to me, but you should be able to find one of those at most flea markets or 'antique' stores. If they are not so easily found in your region of the country, I'll pick one up for you when I see one. They are usually only a buck or two.
     
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  14. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    Cool beer stuff in general is hard to find out here in California, or so it seems. There are no huge conventions or shows, at least in the SF Bay Area. Though there is a decent show in September south of here, about 40 miles away in Watsonville, it seems all of that is east of the Rockies.
    As much as l know that you only save bottles from beer you have actually drank, I would send an "empty" (wink wink, nudge nudge...) bottle of my friend's deeeelicious Santa Clara Valley Brewing beer for one of those! (I know l can just buy one on Ebay for anywhere from a buck to waaaaay too much, but what fun is that when l can get one from the legendary Mothergoose??)
     
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  15. zekeman17

    zekeman17 Pooh-Bah (2,082) Feb 14, 2010 Pennsylvania
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    My storage area happens to be in a corner of my warehouse at work. Just took a stroll back and dug around a little. Send me your address.
     
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  16. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    Wow, thanks!! That looks like one helluva stash!!
     
  17. zekeman17

    zekeman17 Pooh-Bah (2,082) Feb 14, 2010 Pennsylvania
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    Yeah, spent a lot of time when I was a kid picking cans up off the side of the highway, digging through old barns, basements and junkyards.
     
  18. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    (Or the legendary zekeman17, for that matter!)
     
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  19. PapaGoose03

    PapaGoose03 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,057) May 30, 2005 Michigan
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    Me "Legendary"? Ha.

    I'd take you up on your offer, but I see that @zekeman17 is getting you set up. If that doesn't happen, we can strike a deal in person if I can find one of those cans. I'm going to be out in your neck of the woods (Fremont) in early September and I'll bring it along.
     
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  20. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    It sounds like it is happening, but let me know when you're in town and l'll buy you a beer anyway! Are you going to be here on business (unless there are relatives there, no one vacations in Fremont...)?
     
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