Thank you Keith. Now thinking I will create BMV publications named “Advertisements” and “Canning Companies”, and then artificial months such as “American”, “Continental”, “National” etc under which to group. Would fit BMV structure nicely, TOC would be info such as real publication, date and possibl...

Great can company ad Keith. Do you or other collectors have more ads that could possibly be bundled with the BMV? I am thinking of going through the Brewers Journals and grouping into “fake months” and adding a publication named “Advertisements” so nicely grouped together. Any digital format would b...

Here in northern Indiana the eclipse Monday from 4:30am until around 6:50am was amazing, total darkness. Couldn't see the sun. Around 3:10pm the sky darkened for a few minutes but never really dark. We were predicted to be "96%" but didn't feel anywhere close. Will be nice however not to h...

I asked same question years ago, but so far no answer. Assume it is a west coast canning company since found on many CA tabs. I have wondered if it is "creative" way to display the letters "C" and "U". Sure this is written somewhere in long ago documents that possibly l...

That might have been from Wally Gilbert's collection. When I went to San Diego after his passing, long after the rare stuff picked over, there were still easily 15-20,000 cans remaining. A 12oz Mule was one of them, and neither his executor nor myself could find that in the few references available....

Not intending to spam, you can always skip reading if not interested. CanDB version 4.2.0 introduced the View -> Run Search and the View -> View Items menus options. CanDB version 4.2.1 now integrates them together by default . Where the View -> View Items will show all items for the currently selec...

Not to add to collection, just looking for missing photos. When I was actively working on the Michigan Beer Cans project I was able to photograph many of the Detroit Guinness Ale and Beer flat tops. Assumption is there is a can for every number, but I was not successful in finding all of them. What ...

Just playing around with latest CanDB 4.2.1 "View Items" and previously released feature "Run Search". I think makes for some good wallpaper images, hope you don't mind me sharing . -Randy

These are still my favorite green cans. Wish I had been able to locate the full range of numbers for photos.
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And then this one green can, mixed in with some cousins.
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Just FYI. Fun story I heard from McGuire, how the Trent paint over sat and end of rain gutter down spout for years before Launt rubbed it, which ended up in Dave Lang's collection.
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Since I was in the CanDB source code for the Run Search option, I finally implemented something I wanted to do for the longest time. There is now a CanDB "View" menu, with handful of options. Two of most interest to me are the " View -> View Projects " and " View -> View Ite...

Thank you for all registered CanDB users, email details were just sent regarding CanDB 4.1.4. Here is summary of a new feature that was just uploaded to https://www.mbcinfo.com/CanDB Last week there was a question on the Rusty Bunch site “How many cans have been produced with the Heekin canning code...

Here is CanDB "Tools -> Run Search" results for "heekin" in my "Michigan Beer Cans" project. The CanDB search results are HTML, I had to cut/paste to display side-by-side to post as a reasonable size PNG. There are TEN Michigan variations from Heekin, all Carling Brewer...

Nice job Marc. I'm impressed that you knew where these came from. However, these came from barn 29 in 1998, This is what I got. I'm impressed too but not surprised. Marc has an amazing collection of knowledge in his mind. Who needs Google when Marc is around? Both Marc Tracy and Chris Taylor have a...

Thank you Clayton and all that contributed stories for a very nicely done Dave Lang tribute issue. I had to get this added to the BMV straight away. Content of this issue, TOC, search and thumbnails have been uploaded to https://www.mbcinfo.com/BMV. Note this is content update only, zero changes to ...

I believe there is slightly more than three known but unfortunately I do not have access to my notes right now. I will be curious to see what this sells for. There are four known Detroit Regal, all photographed on my website. So many rare cans in this hobby, I have been lucky to hold all four examp...

Nice feature of Dan's auction and tags in the description to search for "dave lang". Dang, there are quite a number of cans from his former collection, hope brings in great dollars for his family. Cool to read description on the Playmate zip that Dave put it on his shelf after he purchased...

The "Beer Magazine Viewer" - BMV 3.2.3 is now web hosted. This is a content only update which includes Rustlings Winter 2024, Rainier Brewings 2023-2024, and re-load of Foam Matters through end of 2023 (had some issues with PDF extraction chopping page content). The BMV is written in Java ...

Thanks Randy ! Still have a rememberence of some those rare crowntainers in a magazine a long time ago and this guy dick Caughey holding some of them .. oh well With the BMV content I find 46 references to "Dick Caughey", often seems to be part of the BCCA "Can Closeup" articles...

Hi @Randy Karasek , any chance there is a web-based BMV in the future? I can't get it past my Norton security to run locally on my PC. There is none currently planned. The amount of content has gotten so large (around 13GB right now) that long past able to fit on DVD or cheap USB. While my hosting ...

I posted this on Facebook couple days ago when Ed originally asked. BMV is free, runs Windows/Mac/Linux, and all I did was search for "crowntainer find". BCCA 2005, Feb/Mar, pages 24-26. https://www.mbcinfo.com/BMV . bcca2005FebMar24.png bcca2005FebMar25.png bcca2005FebMar26.png . And here...

Update. If you don't have the BMV installed (why not???) here is the list of many great articles Dave Lang contributed to the hobby. At least can be used as reference to read the printed articles.

Definitely have to zoom in, default post size impossible to read.

There are 173 articles with Dave Lang accredited as author as part of the BMV project. Simply search for "dave lang" by author. Many very interesting and fun to read articles.

Read through the old thread and wanted to ask if anyone could post a pic or two of what the logo looks like. Keith- if there are only 20 or so known labels that shouldn't be too bad of a job?? Flats only? inquiring minds and all... Andy These are the only two I was able to document with my Michigan...

I took a whole set of photo pairs for the article in the BCCA article some 15 years ago. Maybe it's time I drag 'em off my old hard drive and repost them? Here is the BCCA article to which I believe Matt is referring. He likely has numerous more examples than able to be published in the magazine. R...

Terrible news the passing of a RB/collecting icon. I just did a BMV search and there are *173* articles with Dave as author, some great stories of his many years collecting and dumping adventures. The video with Dave and Charlie a super way to remember.

From my original Michigan collection, in order left to right of hardest to easiest I was able to acquire them. For some reason the Muskie was last to be added from Alex Draper. The first five definitely much harder than the last easy four. Even earlier 2000's the prices were not cheap, now days some...

Sorry for your loss. Here are the two Beer Cans Monthly articles you mentioned:
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When I extract the files it only shows an empty "lib" folder in the destination folder. I suspect its a setting on my new laptop but damned if I know what to change. Posting instead of PM in case others are having similar issue. All the real logic of BMV is contained in the "lib"...

BMV 3.2.1 has been uploaded. This is a content-only update, no code changes. Content now includes latest Rustlings, Foam Matters and Rainier Brewings through fall of 2023. BCCA is now updated through end of 2022. Thank you to the newsletter editors for your hard work and allowing content to be used ...