Vintage Beer Cans

Pretty refreshing. The Old Style can is classic. But the Jim Beam/cola can was out there.

If you're into this kind of thing and ever find yourself in Chicago's Millenium Station, there's a cool little bar in there that has a huge can collection.

No DHARMA? :)

My grandpa has cases of some of those in his basement. I wonder if 6o year old bear is worth anything?

Some beer cans from before the aluminum can era (late 1960s) can sell for thousands of dollars. Beer can collectors are like vacuum tube or Christmas light collectors--a very small but incestuous and crazy gang. Some of them spend their personal fortunes pursuing rare brands made by breweries that went out of business long ago.

Nikolas - save those cans. They will be irreplaceable in a few years.

What do they do with the rusted ones??

Is anyone else thirsty?

I wish that our ultra-rich overlords didn't waste their money on chocolate martinis and the like and instead cultivated more rarefied tastes, like for truly vintage beer. How refreshing would that be?

I wonder what beer will be incredibly valuable in twenty or thirty years? I want to suggest some fairly awesome hoity-toity beer, but I suspect that some case of High Life or PBR would become sentimentally valuable if that brand was discontinued. Time to make some unconventional investments, anyone?

Ajan - you use oxalic acid and water to take the rust off.

Nicholas - I don't think bears live to 60.