Posted on 01/24/2010 12:03:46 PM PST by JoeProBono
Be sure to crack open a cold one on Jan. 24, the day canned beer celebrates its 75th birthday.
New Jersey's Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company churned out the world's first beer can in 1935, stocking select shelves in Richmond, Va., as a market test. The experiment took off and American drinkers haven't looked back since, nowadays choosing cans over bottles for the majority of the 22 gallons of beer they each drink per year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Canned brewskies may have only hit shelves in 1935, but the drink's history goes back much further — at least 6,000 years, in fact, to ancient Iraq.
Though it is impossible to tell just how many important decisions in world history were lubricated by a pint or two, the potent potable has played a role in at least a few milestone events, from the plagues of medieval Europe to the founding of the United States.
Who drank the first fermented wheat?
Beer is nearly as old as civilization itself, historians believe, as the accidental fermentation of wheat or barley — which produces a rudimentary beer — almost certainly occurred soon after the advent of crop agriculture (the question becoming then who was the first to volunteer to drink a murky pool of wheat water?).
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Ditto!
Cool ad,
Beer suckd!
I found a “Senators Club” can in Greenbelt MD, back in around 1980. A little rusted but it was a nice find.
I have a case of Hamms in my fridge! Go Vikings!
Hey Joe.
Use to be a beer called Brew 302
Brewery was along the L.a. River.
That’s the wash where Terminator was filmed.
Olympia beer,
Brewed in Tumwater Washington using pure mountain water?
Nahhh give me that rot gut made from the L.a. River.
Any rexcuse to have a brew works for me. But I drink beer out of bottles.
My brother was a beer can collector. I used to help him in his endeavors. He had a nice display over the head of his bed. One night, the whole thing came crashing down.
Yes, we lived in south Georgia.
Ahh... the “pale stale ale with the head on the bottom.”
Rege Cordic at KDKA Pittsburgh.
Allowing for the tremendous coverage area of the Pittsburgh "blowtorch" station, I would imagine a lot of people remember him.
I never drank much beer but the best mass-produced beer I can ever remember drinking was Heileman’s Old Style.
Neighborhood Chicago watering holes always had the great Germanic looking Old Style sign displayed outside;
I don’t know how to post pictures, otherwise I would.
Maybe that guy Joe Pro Bono would........
there’s lots on Google images/
I think Old Style was strictly MidWestern beer, though.
Iraq: the birthplace of beer. Another reason to fight for Iraq.
One of my uncles had bought a case of Hamm's just before he died in late 1973, and it sat in my aunt's downstairs refrigerator, with a can or two being brought upstairs when the rare visitor just had to have a beer. Sometime in the early '90's, a family event led my dad, another uncle and I to go down to the basement to sit around and reminisce; we found the remaining cans still in the 'fridge, so we opened them up to see how bad they had gone. To our surprise, it was as good (or "bad," if you weren't a Hamm's fan) as I remembered it, and we downed all but one can, which we left in place out of nostalgia.
About three years later, my aunt passed away and we cleaned the house, readying everything for the estate sale. I opened the remaining can intending to drink a toast to this couple who had done a lot for me and my family, bit I found the beer had gone very bad. If there was some sort of message to it all, I never figured it out, but I do know this much: if only one can out of that lot went bad over a 20 year period, Theo. Hamm & Co. had done one hell of a job back in the day.
Mr. niteowl77
It’s not ‘mine’ but thank you for the kind comment. ;o)
Another milestone was when aluminum cans replaced steel cans, and another was the flip-top can that replaced “church-key” can openers.
Great story!
When I was a kid, Hamm’s sponsored the Minnesota Twins game on radio and tv. I bought this case because it was on special. It’s as good a beer as any, imo. But then, I’m not a beer snob! lol
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