Anyone collecting these yet?

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  1. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    [​IMG] I guess since bottles are more rapidly giving way to cans, this might be the next natural step in beer-collectabledom. I'm in!
     
    #1 SirBottlecap, Sep 25, 2015
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  2. sharpski

    sharpski Grand Pooh-Bah (3,100) Oct 11, 2010 Oregon
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    For me it's the difference between album art and cassette or CD covers, just not the same tactile experience even if they do something creative. Diff'rent strokes...
     
    #2 sharpski, Sep 25, 2015
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  3. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    Understood. I'll save a can or bottle if it is old or special, but can't save 'em all because of limited space. I collect all things beer, and it might be a stretch, but I can envision a section of my wall devoted to those.
     
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  4. PapaGoose03

    PapaGoose03 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,057) May 30, 2005 Michigan
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    I have to wonder how many cans will have a graphic on the pull tab. Probably more than half of the breweries here in Michigan use a mobile canning service that throws on a plastic outer coating on the can with the breweries' graphics, but nothing on the top. Your pull tab may be a loner, but highly scarce and collectible.

    PS - I like your new avatar. Self-made using a magic marker, or is it from a brewery?
     
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  5. zekeman17

    zekeman17 Pooh-Bah (2,082) Feb 14, 2010 Pennsylvania
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    I haven't seen them yet. When I do I'll probably save them because
    I save, well, everything.
    "Hi, my name is Zeke and I'm a beer stuff hoarder".
     
    #5 zekeman17, Sep 25, 2015
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  6. zekeman17

    zekeman17 Pooh-Bah (2,082) Feb 14, 2010 Pennsylvania
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    What beer/beers are they from?
     
    #6 zekeman17, Sep 25, 2015
  7. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    I've seen them on other Firestone products as well as some other brewery's cans, including Budweiser. I think we'll see more soon. l wish the graphics were upside-down so l could just hang 'em
    Firestone Walker's 805 (all of their beers appear to have new designs) on the left, Speakeasy, which appears to have just this one design.
     
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  8. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    Kind of both: That is a self-styled cap with my (pretty accurate, l might add) version of a homebrewing friend of mine's face. He makes some of the best beer I've ever had, but won't do anything with his caps, art-wise, so l did!
     
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  9. zekeman17

    zekeman17 Pooh-Bah (2,082) Feb 14, 2010 Pennsylvania
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    Get your artwork printed on 3/4" clear labels and give them to him.
     
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  10. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    It never even occurred to me! I'll send some out to y'all!
     
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  11. jermsumm

    jermsumm Initiate (0) Jun 3, 2009 Alabama

    Nope, nope, nope. I simply cannot undertake another collecting aspect (no matter how small they are). I am a crown collector, and I'm keeping it at that....because I have no more room between that and my classic horror movie memorabilia.
     
    #11 jermsumm, Sep 28, 2015
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  12. paulys55

    paulys55 Initiate (0) Aug 2, 2010 Pennsylvania

    Those are worthless because the connecting rings are broken :wink:
     
    #12 paulys55, Sep 28, 2015
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  13. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    Cool. Anyway, I'll send some soon along with your caps. Kidding, of course, don't take a chainsaw to me, ol' buddy ol' pal...that return address of mine is fake...uhhh...AAAAAAAHHHHH!!! NNNOOOOOOO!!!!

    Which reminds me of the old cap conundrum, "If a beer cap has never sat atop a beer, is it really a beer cap?"
     
    #13 SirBottlecap, Sep 29, 2015
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  14. AndyCapper

    AndyCapper Initiate (0) May 6, 2015 England

    An interesting conundrum, the answer to which in my mind could be 'yes', 'no' or 'maybe'. 'Yes' if it is a cap that is intended for use on a commercially produced beer and others of the same design have been used (such as the one I use for my avatar). 'No' if it is a design that is not intended to go on a beer bottle, e.g. the design has a collector's face or some other personal design or is made to promote a crowncap producer's product, sucha as a producer's trade sample! 'Maybe' if it is designed for use with homebrew products or was a design produced for a beer - but then never used commercially in favour of some other design. Are there any other permutations?
     
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  15. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    Those are pretty much my rules, too.
    There's a collector of beer caps who l have traded with that has an old-school hand-capper (that doesn't leave the little ring-shaped impression) that he uses on any uncapped crowns going into his collection. I would do the same thing if l could find a cheap one.
     
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  16. AndyCapper

    AndyCapper Initiate (0) May 6, 2015 England

    Isn't that a slight deception if the cap hasn't actually been lifted from a bottle of the same brand beer! Each to his or her own conscience I guess. Would a 1987 Sierra Nevada Bigfoot cap in 'unused' condition be worth more than a 'used' one? It certainly would to collectors of only unused caps.
     
    #16 AndyCapper, Sep 29, 2015
  17. paulys55

    paulys55 Initiate (0) Aug 2, 2010 Pennsylvania

    I was just kidding around. But when I was in college we used to play a game where when you opened your can, if you couldn't get the pull tab off without breaking the ring, you had to chug your beer. So I got pretty good at it.
     
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  18. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    This is an unknown skill to me. For the sake of sobriety, I shall practice on a can of Old Chub shortly.
     
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  19. paulys55

    paulys55 Initiate (0) Aug 2, 2010 Pennsylvania

    The trick is, once you open the can like normal, rotate the tab to the 9 o'clock (or 3 o'clock) position so that the front of the tab (the part that normally pushes down on the pre-cut hole to open the can) is pressing on a solid part of the top of the can and pull up and towards that part of the tab. With a little practice, it should pull off the can without breaking the ring.
     
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  20. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    Thanks for the tip! Can l still chug the beer?
     
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