Quick question, i'm a cap collector and was curious to know if this brewery has a design on their caps?
Pretty sure they don't, from what I can remember of the bottle of their porter I had a couple months ago. I'd say the vast majority of Washington brewers don't have their own design for bottle caps. Maybe they had the "W" of the Washington Brewers Association (or whatever it's called), which does appear on some bottles that would otherwise be plain. I'll try to keep an eye out next time I'm in a bottle shop to verify.
I sort of lazily collect them, but I generally discard the plain ones. I don't note down anything about bottle caps or anything like that. I just throw the ones that have something on them that I think are new to me into ziplock bags (I actually have three: regional, U.S., and international) with the idea I'll someday figure out some better way of keeping them. Probably whatever relatives get stuck with my "estate" once I take my supernatural stroll will find them in a drawer and toss them as junk!
A friend of mine got a clear glass lamp at an antique store. He took the ones he liked best and set them facing out, and back filled behind them. Worked his way up the inside of the lamp. Pretty neat when he got it done, and I helped by providing caps from trades (and, drinking his beer). There's now the state and U.S. maps. He's got WA full, OR,CA, and U.S. partially done.
I recently (NBS, WBAYDN? I forget) became aware of the bottlecap map thing. Kinda cool, but with the bottlecaps I've collected skewed heavily towards the PNW, I'd end up with map so big I'd have to mount it a map ridiculously big. Plus, I'd probably have to give up location in favor of convenience, and the map would have bottlecaps from Seattle and Portland breweries all over the map, and I'm just OCD enough that it would bug the shit out of me. Maybe putting them under glass on a desk would work.
I got the US map for Christmas. It's kinda forced me out of my west coast comfort zone while I (re)search for beers other than Washington, Oregon, and California. There are some states I am convinced I will never find but to me, it's all about the journey.
Anywhooo, I checked with a couple of friends who actually have a few bottles of OSB Barleywine in their cellars, and, they have plain black caps. Sorry OP, looks like your out of luck on this.
How big is the US map? I have a regular U.S. map on a wall at casa woemad, and a cap map it's size (I'm too lazy to go and measure it right now; let's just say it's "standard" map-on-wall size) would be fine for the western states, but I can't help picture a guy from Rhode Island, proudly clutching a bottle cap from his home state, looking at it and going,"Sonofabitch!"
The US one is about 15-18 inches across. IIRC, there's only 6 spots in WA. Some of the smaller states don't even have room for 1 cap.
Well, Rhode Island and Delaware are small, and New Hampshire and Vermont are oddly shaped, space is what space is.
Mine is about 24 inches across. I have seen a few of these in my travels (some are massive) but I like the simplicity of it. 50 states=50 holes. Not geographically correct though for obvious reasons. I suspect when I eventually score Rhode Island it will end up somewhere near Nebraska. The state ones are cool as well however some are not very realistic. See Wyoming and Nevada. Alaska looks almost doable.... http://www.beercapmaps.com/shop/state-maps
