ON WITH THE BEER BASH....
V.TCH.....A BIG SCANNER TONIGHT, 9 OF 10 SECTORS SCAN WITH A HIGH NUMERICAL MULTIPLE. THE PIG WONDERS WHATS UP WITH THIS CUTE CUTLET. NOT MUCH FOR DD OUT THERE TO BE DONE SO THE PIGS PUT OUT HIS BIG FAT FEELERS TO TRY TO FIND OUT. THE CHARTS EARLY KIDS...........YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE EARLY BIRD......
V.AIX....BIG MOMO SCANS ON THIS PEPPY PIGGY TOO. RARE EARTHS AREA PLAY THAT MAY HAVE SOME LEGS TO THE TEENS AND FURTHER OUT BEYOND THEM, ONCE DRILLING STARTS. FOR NOW, A DOUBLE MAY BE INSIOGHT FROM THESE LEVELS. CLOSE EYE CLASS, KEEP VIGILANT ! IF SHE MOVES SNAP A FEW UP. THE PROMO APPEARS TO BE ON !
V.JRN.......A PIG CONTACT ALERTED US AND SO WE PICKED SCANNED IT TWICE BOTH TIMES TURNING STRONG NUMBERS. WHATS UP ? WELL .....SOME SIGNIFICANT NEWS REPUTED TO BE ON ITS WAY. MAYBE TIME TO BOARD THE BUS BEFORE IT LEAVES THE STATION.
V.ULI...THIS PORKULENT PIGLET HAS COME UP FOR A FEW NIGHTS ON THE SCANNER. USUALLY IN MID PACK IN NUMBERS. TONIGHT IT RAMPS UP A NOTCH OR TWO ENOUGH TO GET THE PIGS ATTENTION. GOOD NUMBERS AND MAYBE A STORY TO TELL. LARGE PERIOD OF ACCUMULATION TO THIS PIGGY......RARE EARTHS SEEM TO BE COMING BACK.....AND QUICK .
V.NIS...NEWFY GOLD PLAY.....SCANS HIGH TONIGHT BASED ON MOVING AVERAGE UPTICKS, CAPITAL INFLOW UPTICK, AND THE VOLUME MOMENTUM NUMBERS.
NEWS COULD BE NEAR. MAYBE A DOUBLE COULD BE TOO !!.........WHERE YA TOO BY ?
THE PIGS A BIG READER OF OTHER TIPSTERS IN THE BUSINESS. ONE OF HIS FAVS IS JIM LETOURNEAU OF THE BIG PICTURE SPECULATOR. HE RECENTLY PUBLISHED SOME INTERESTING REE AND LITHIUM COMPANY LISTS. CHECK EM OUT !
http://www.jimletourneau.com/2010/01/lithium-stock-list/
The beer can celebrates 75 years
Beer was first put into a can 75 years ago this weekend. About that time, the world of brewerania collectibles really took off.
By Jim Witmer, Staff Writer
Updated 8:59 AM Friday, January 22, 2010 You may not realize it, but if you have anything from a brewery on display or stashed away somewhere, you are a collector of breweriana.
Some people get started by taking home free advertising stuff from bars or saving some favorite beer cans, and before they know it, their walls are stacked floor-to-ceiling with thousands of dollars worth of vintage collectibles.
But perhaps the most popular beer collectible is the can.
January 24 marks the 75th anniversary of the beer can, so breweriana collectors across the globe will raise a toast to the day when cans of Krueger’s Finest Beer and Krueger’s Cream Ale first went on sale in Richmond, Va. Those cumbersome cans weighed over 3 ounces, were lined with beeswax so the beer wouldn’t taste metallic and needed a “church key” can opener to perforate the top. The can was accompanied by an illustrated brochure on how to operate it properly.
Before 1935, food products such as coffee, soup, lard, fish, fruit, vegetables and some (noncarbonated) fruit beverages were packed in cans. But not yet beer.
The bottle making industry launched a smear campaign at the time, calling the beer can just a “fad.”
Having a good-condition can from the Diamond Anniversary era is worth around $2,000.
But, there are four ultra rare cans (Rosalie and Tiger from Chicago, Waldorf Bock from Cleveland and Class from Philadelphia) that if in good condition have a standing offer in the low six-figure range if they ever come up for sale, according to Bob Kates of Beavercreek.
Kates, whose entire basement living area is floor-to ceiling in breweriana, caught the can collecting “bug” 44 years ago with a couple of 16-ounce Coors cans. Today, he has an estimated 1,000 items, specializing in defunct Ohio breweries.
Prohibition was a bleak time in the nation’s history, but afterward, breweries began colorful advertising campaigns on everything they could — cans, trays, lights, clocks, signs, ashtrays and the like to get their businesses rebuilt, and to fight off the large national brands, thus providing much of today’s collectibles.
But by the ’70s, only mega-brewers Bud, Miller and Coors had knocked out most of the regional breweries and the only things left were memories, and of course what we now know as breweriana.
Prior to Prohibition, advertising was not as prevalent — beer was more localized and less packaged. So, it’s a matter of supply and demand as with most breweriana, and pre-Prohibition lithographs can command a price of $20,000.
Local collector Denny Thayer has one of the most extensive national collections in the Miami Valley. He got his start while a student at Miami University in the late ’60s, saving a wide variety of colorful Cincinnati-brewed beer cans after parties, then collecting Cleveland-based beer cans when he went home. “I began looking in odd places, and even found an old Leisy’s can (which holds high sentimental value in his vast basement collection) where my dad kept nuts and bolts.”
Today, he even has a houseboat named “Good Fer What Ale’s Ya” that is decked out in nautical-themed breweriana.
Both Thayer and Kates are longtime members of the Miami Valley chapter of The Brewery Collectibles Club of America, hosts of the Antique Beer & Brewery Item Appraisal Event from noon to 5 p.m. Jan. 30, in the upstairs of the Brixx Ice Company, 500 E. First St., Dayton.
After 75 years, what lies ahead for the beer can?
BCCA Miami Valley Chapter President Richard Ordeman: “I see the beer can, in general, evolving to replace the bottle completely. Glass is too fragile, and the shape of the bottle wastes space for storage and shipping. In addition, people often hurt their finger or break a nail opening the pop-top on a can. Based on these observations, I foresee the can evolving to a can with the same or similar shape as the current can, but the lid would be threaded to allow it to unscrew off of the can. This could even be resealable, although I don’t know why anyone would ever need to reseal a beer can.”
Only time will tell where technology takes the beer can in the next 75 years. It has been around for so long, it’s easy to take it for granted.
But not for those who passionately collect them.
Some people get started by taking home free advertising stuff from bars or saving some favorite beer cans, and before they know it, their walls are stacked floor-to-ceiling with thousands of dollars worth of vintage collectibles.
But perhaps the most popular beer collectible is the can.
January 24 marks the 75th anniversary of the beer can, so breweriana collectors across the globe will raise a toast to the day when cans of Krueger’s Finest Beer and Krueger’s Cream Ale first went on sale in Richmond, Va. Those cumbersome cans weighed over 3 ounces, were lined with beeswax so the beer wouldn’t taste metallic and needed a “church key” can opener to perforate the top. The can was accompanied by an illustrated brochure on how to operate it properly.
Before 1935, food products such as coffee, soup, lard, fish, fruit, vegetables and some (noncarbonated) fruit beverages were packed in cans. But not yet beer.
The bottle making industry launched a smear campaign at the time, calling the beer can just a “fad.”
Having a good-condition can from the Diamond Anniversary era is worth around $2,000.
But, there are four ultra rare cans (Rosalie and Tiger from Chicago, Waldorf Bock from Cleveland and Class from Philadelphia) that if in good condition have a standing offer in the low six-figure range if they ever come up for sale, according to Bob Kates of Beavercreek.
Kates, whose entire basement living area is floor-to ceiling in breweriana, caught the can collecting “bug” 44 years ago with a couple of 16-ounce Coors cans. Today, he has an estimated 1,000 items, specializing in defunct Ohio breweries.
Prohibition was a bleak time in the nation’s history, but afterward, breweries began colorful advertising campaigns on everything they could — cans, trays, lights, clocks, signs, ashtrays and the like to get their businesses rebuilt, and to fight off the large national brands, thus providing much of today’s collectibles.
But by the ’70s, only mega-brewers Bud, Miller and Coors had knocked out most of the regional breweries and the only things left were memories, and of course what we now know as breweriana.
Prior to Prohibition, advertising was not as prevalent — beer was more localized and less packaged. So, it’s a matter of supply and demand as with most breweriana, and pre-Prohibition lithographs can command a price of $20,000.
Local collector Denny Thayer has one of the most extensive national collections in the Miami Valley. He got his start while a student at Miami University in the late ’60s, saving a wide variety of colorful Cincinnati-brewed beer cans after parties, then collecting Cleveland-based beer cans when he went home. “I began looking in odd places, and even found an old Leisy’s can (which holds high sentimental value in his vast basement collection) where my dad kept nuts and bolts.”
Today, he even has a houseboat named “Good Fer What Ale’s Ya” that is decked out in nautical-themed breweriana.
Both Thayer and Kates are longtime members of the Miami Valley chapter of The Brewery Collectibles Club of America, hosts of the Antique Beer & Brewery Item Appraisal Event from noon to 5 p.m. Jan. 30, in the upstairs of the Brixx Ice Company, 500 E. First St., Dayton.
After 75 years, what lies ahead for the beer can?
BCCA Miami Valley Chapter President Richard Ordeman: “I see the beer can, in general, evolving to replace the bottle completely. Glass is too fragile, and the shape of the bottle wastes space for storage and shipping. In addition, people often hurt their finger or break a nail opening the pop-top on a can. Based on these observations, I foresee the can evolving to a can with the same or similar shape as the current can, but the lid would be threaded to allow it to unscrew off of the can. This could even be resealable, although I don’t know why anyone would ever need to reseal a beer can.”
Only time will tell where technology takes the beer can in the next 75 years. It has been around for so long, it’s easy to take it for granted.
But not for those who passionately collect them.
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