Whats your favorite cap?

From the Lancaster Brewery, UK, this is the crowncap from a bottle of 'Mr Trotter's Great British Chestnut Ale'

 

I also love the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co - Bigfoot series caps and have all but three (1987, 89, and 91). I don't suppose you have these to trade or sell?

 

The colorful building scene (I assume the brewery's buildings) on the Ayinger caps is my favorite. I don't have a pic so here's the website link, although I suspect we all know what the cap looks like: http://www.ayinger.de/cms/

 

The 1987 and 1989 are reversed colours with blue background, a white foot and black text, but the 1991 cap is the 'usual' blue foot and text on a white cap. The 1987 and 89 caps are rarely seen on auction sites and when they do come up for sale, generally sell now for well over $100 a piece.

 

1987 was the first year and there was no specific bigfoot cap issued in 1996. All caps other than 1987 and 1989 are blue and white only. In 2014 the foot was reversed to point left. From 2008 to present the wording on the cap has omitted the word 'Bigfoot' for some reason. Happy collecting.

 

My favorite (if we can pick from the inside design):

From 1970s era Falstaff "Crown Tickler" series.

 

@jesskidden So you want to drive us nuts trying to decipher that cap? Okay, let me think about it for a while.

 

It drove us nuts for years (well, maybe it was only "Months" or "Weeks"?) - so much so I figured out Falstaff's address in Rhode Island and wrote them a letter for the answers.

And that would have been back when a letter cost 15¢ - that's something like 60¢ in today's dollars well, cents.

Maybe there were others that we couldn't figure out, but this one always seemed to turn up...

Well as a wise man once sang, "I just want you to hurt like I do..."

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"ORGANIZE A PAPER DRIVE"
(ORGAN - EYE's - APE APE - ER - DRIVE)

Yes, exactly how much had that guy been drinking?

Certainly the "organ" pic was the hardest to figure out ("What's that, a waterfall with a pine tree?"), but then they expect you to figure out "Ape Ape"!? C'mon.

 

@jesskidden I never would have got that. Thanks for the answer.

 

This one is a lot harder than the ones I remember seeing on Falstaff bottles from the late 80's-early 90's. We emptied a ton of the returnable cases- and quarts when the cases all disappeared...

Is anyone doing this with their crowns these days?

 

Some of the Pabst's brands (the current Pabst Brewing Co., of course, is the result of the merger of all the S&P-owned breweries - General, Falstaff, Pearl and, finally, Pabst) still use them, as do some of The Lion brands - not sure how that happened, other than the fact that - briefly - in the early 2000s The Lion was brewing so Pabst-owned brands.

Miller's Mickey's Malt Liquor also has a series, but unrelated to the old "Crown Ticklers" of the S&P brands AFAIK.

 

Cool. Thanks! I'll have to branch out a bit for old times sake

 

There were actually a couple of different webpages dedicated to them at one time (I know I sent copies of my two official Falstaff mimeographed answer lists to some folks years ago). I guess do a Google search for "Crown Ticklers" or just "Falstaff + rebus"...

 

The flourescent red cap signifying an Oxbow bottle.

 

Slightly off topic but does anyone know what B.R.E.A.M stands for? On the inside of Funky Buddha Morning Wood cap???

 

The "B" could be many things, so not sure what it means in this case, but this is a reference to a Wu-Tang Clan song. C.R.E.A.M. = Cash Rules Everything Around Me

 

Of course, didn’t think of that!

Beer Rules Everything Around Me maybe.