pounder vs. tallboy

I've always called a 16 oz can a Tall boy. But IIRC, Schlitz called a 24 oz can of theirs Tall Boy. I'd never heard the term "pounder" until I visited this site.

 

Well, 16 oz in a pound. So yeah...

Anyways call em what you want, pretty sure its interchangeable.

 

I think Tall Boy has been generalized to anything north of 12oz...I think.

 

HUB started offering their IPA in what they call "Pounders"
That's the first I saw the term. Can't confirm the size though. I don't have one at hand.

 

It seems that "tall boy" has become a generic term for cans that are taller and/or more narrow than a standard 12oz can. Hence they look taller.
A "pounder" refers to 16oz. Like in a pound. Clever, eh? I never use that term.

 

I've always used the 2 interchangeably, and found it generally just depends where you are from. I've always called 16 oz cans pounders, but I hear people call them tall boys all the time.

 

"tall boys" here in Indiana.

 

Tall Boy meant 24 oz. in Texas apparently (at least it did in 1956).

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I've always called 16 oz, tall boys and 24 oz, silos. The latter could be a Wisconsin thing, I have no idea.

 

I'm with most, 16 oz is a tallboy, never heard of a "pounder" though, anything bigger than a tallboy (usually 24 oz, though I've seen some go up to about a quart) I've heard called either a "cannon", "monster" can, "big can", or "double" can.

 

I have never heard of these so called "pounders" I just call a 16oz can or larger a tall boy.

Cheers!

 

I used tallboy for 16oz cans and silos for 24oz cans

 

What ever it may be, I hope they start making Ten Fidy 24OZ tallboys!! that would make for an interesting shotgun!!!

 

16oz = tall boy or pounder, 24oz = man can.

 

Strohs used to come in 16 oz returnable bottles. That was the first experience I had with beers being called pounders. Fire brewed goodness in a larger bottle, good times!

 

16 oz=Tallboy
24 oz="2 by 4"

 

Besides us now being able to drink Alesmith IPA on a regular basis, the HUB cans are one of the greatest things to happen up here in the PNW in the past couple months.

 

Pounder is definitely a term for 16 oz at least in Philadelphia area... and maybe it's a more recent development with hipsters and their relationship with Pabst who makes a 16 oz can. Or maybe it's always been a more colloquial thing.

Tall boy, per Jess, seems it may have started as a 24 oz. (at least in Texas) but considering the other comments, now can be anything greater than 16 or simply 16 oz. in general.

 

The Texas comment was tongue-in-cheek - as an excuse to post that sorta weird Texas-based and -referencing graphic from an ad from the early days of Schlitz's Tall Boy can in the mid-50's - coincidentally, when Schlitz was the #1 US brewer for the last time. (I guess their Longview plant might have been the original brewery to use that size and/or Texas was the test market?)

The cans themselves listed all of Schlitz brewing cities at the time and continued to me marketed up until Schlitz was taken over by Stroh (at least). I've got a late-70's era can that lists breweries like Syracuse, NY (i.e., AB's current "Baldwinsville, NY" brewery) and even Honolulu (the Primo brewery). I didn't buy the beers from the then Big 3 (AB, Schlitz and Miller) so don't really recall what markets I saw the Schlitz Tall Boys but I imagine they were quite widely available. Schlitz used the same size can for Old Milwaukee (which they labeled as a "Growler") and Schlitz Malt Liquor.

 

Haven't heard 2 by 4 yet. I like that one!

 

I have often heard of beers that come in 16 oz. cans called "Kingers" or with the Rhode Island accent, "Kingiz."

I call 16 oz cans tall boys.

 

Must be Missouri redneck slang.

 

Many breweries used the term "King Size" for their 16 oz. cans, including Narragansett (which also used it on the neck label of their 16 oz. returnable bottles)- so that might explain that local terminology.

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Just to add another useless term to the mix, in the mid-70s we used to refer to the rarely sighted Foster's cans as "horse cans". No idea where it came from, but it made sense at the time.

 

I don't recall ever seeing anything in a 24 oz. can and I've been around the block a few times. Quarts, 40 oz. yes, but no 24 oz.

 

You serious?

 

Maybe I shouldn't admit it but yeah, I am. But then again, my memory isn't what it used to be.

 

AB-Inbev puts practically everything they brew in "2 x4's"...at least in the metro STL area.

 

Growing up in northeastern PA in the early '80s, my friends and I would buy six-packs of 16oz Genesee cans, i.e. "Genny Pounders".

 

Aha! I'm here in 2x4 starved NY.

 

At one point IIRC the 16 oz. Genesee returnable bottles had "Pounder" printed right on the neck label - first time I'd heard the term.

 

Yep. Steel cans, like the one I have left, that show the can's welded together. 8 brewing cities on this can. Wow.

 

This. You could get 24-16oz bottles, in a heavy duty waxed cardboard case for about $16 even into the mid-90s. The few bottles of homebrewing I did, I just grabbed a couple cases, drank the beer and used the bottles. it was cheaper paying the deposit than buying bottles. A peeler bar I used to go to in Rochester, the Barrel of Dolls, used to sell them for $2, $1.50 during Happy Hour.

 

That's great. Half quart needs to be the terminology from here on out!

 

16 fluid ounces of water weighs roughly 1 pound, which is also 16 dry ounces. In the old days, there was a rhyme to remember this:

"Pint to the pound
all the world around"