Anybody have a dinged-up copy for sale? I have an art project I need the can article for... everything on ebay now is stupid expensive or JUST the cover art. Thnx....

I guess it's all speculation, I've not heard any discussion of this problem in early cones from guys who dig flat bottom cones or the engineers who made them. Seam bulging is another story. Continental made perfectly fine flat lids, it seems. I haven't heard this question yet and it got me thinking....

ooh I wanna spin the special like that

Thanks for the nudge! Steve has been WAAAY too patient... here's an updated pic. IMG_2478.jpg I rubbed off the flower but Candog's magic treatment wouldn't touch the black undercoat. It is a Cardinal of course, in nice shape under there. I emailed Steve about sending it to someone else but must've e...

Hmm, I'm sure Josh will be there

I'll toss in placeholders on two cans I've always kinda wanted. I'm reloading after going on a 4-month payment plan...

Baltimore Magazine used to run best-of lists, and the coincidence of brewers advertising in their magazine and winning medals ran a solid 100%. These lists often have such coincidences. The hard part is not personal taste, but the fact that so much beer out there is stale and not representative of t...

Guinness spent millions developing nitro beer; it's funny because Guinness is sold all over the world and each one is different. They even make it with millet in Africa, a grain that we feed to birds here. Some poor engineer has to fly everywhere and figure out how to make it taste right. The thing ...

Buying any of them encourages even more to be made. Not the worst thing in the world to have a few grail cans out there. And oddly, at this point it's not the dealers, it's our fellow collectors who are driving up prices. And there's the upside of encouraging folks to go dig and find their own cans,...

Cool- I was your backup as I'll be in Mass next week. thanks for saving me from so much more beer. Can we still deliver to Joe G. for shipment to you, or is there some other arrangement? PS my local liquor store doesn't even bat an eyelash these days. My dad was sending me for 4-packs of Knob Creek ...

Occasionally his stuff out-performs the other auctions' results, too. It's a great example of the niche opened up by the top couple dealers going so heavily with ongrade and high-dollar stuff. There's LOTS of room to offer up stuff a tier or two or three below them and still do well for consignors a...

Day late, dollar short- I meant to post this on the holiday show but I got busy and fell asleep. Placefiller from a New England show a couple years ago, great outdoor face but the back is, well, toast. $5 for the can and can deliver to B/G or Spring Thaw, or ship first class for $4. IMG_2252.jpg IMG...

Just go to Spring Thaw and visit Lebo's house of cans! He'll have everything that's not in the database, plus variations...

Thanks for the story- it gives me a ray of hope as a perennial underbidder. When I think about all those cans where I ended up #2, if I'd landed them all, I just have to sigh. Thanks Marc also for the tip on the cone I'd asked about a few months ago. It just arrived yesterday, paid for mostly by scr...

It still boggles my mind that the two big can companies just got bought and merged literally out of existence over the years. How can you just... sigh. So much business, down the toilet.

I almost started collecting those ham tins; they're all over up in Maine and super colorful.

I saw that info on the site, I was wondering more if it's a version of the Haydock stuff at Oldenburg. Just one nice large collection on display, or is it more museum-y with archives or history aside from the expensive sexy things we all like to look at?

I'm told it's a NABA undertaking, eventually to house a breweriana museum of some sort. Anyone have info or insight into it?

that's a top 10 beer story ever. I once gave Michael Jackson (the writer) a ride from a book signing/beer tasting/festival to his hotel the night before an early flight home. Except all the one-way streets were closed off and I circled midtown Baltimore 4 times before finding his hotel. I cost the m...

Stop... you're making me thirsty and it's only 9:30 here. Funny- it's my engage-aversary today as well, though my wife doesn't remember that part. And I proposed at a beer can show, well not AT the show but at the b&b on the Friday night of the show. All she remembers is asking the next morning,...

Maryland in the house!

Yeah, except Gollum and Pachycephalosaurus are members here!

MD Celebration of Charlie Bacon Saturday, Nov. 19, 1-5pm 4611 Beechwood Rd College Park MD (Calvert Hills) By now we hope that everyone has heard of Charlie’s untimely passing a few weeks ago. My apologies if this is how you find out. Please reach out if you’d like any more information. For those of...

I wonder if Lebo could have the thing moved to his mountain to house trade stock?

Hi All, I’d like to invite Charlie Bacon’s beer can friends to an informal celebration on his back deck from 3-5pm on the afternoon of his service, Saturday, Nov. 12. Whether you’ve gone to the service or not, we’d like to gather as a group to tell stories and have a few beers. Ann won’t be able to ...

Thanks mark. I’ve been tied up all afternoon and couldn’t post as quickly.

If anyone in the DC burbs can’t make it to Beverly, please contact me. I may be able to put together an informal event for can friends, friends, and former coworkers.

I’ll post this on Charlie’s thread and make some calls in the am. His obituary went up today: https://obituaries.salemnews.com/obituary/charles-bacon-iv-1086498155 His service will be in his church in Beverly MA at 11am on Nov 12. Please read the obit for more. Due to unfortunate circumstances, Char...

Thanks everyone for your posts here. I refuse to do this on FB so this will either be a short article or a really long post. My apologies for not calling many of you privately- Ann asked me to contact just a few folks in particular and I only got home on Monday night. I’m still shocked so I’m not ex...

Anybody ever see skeeter dawson's billy garage? I sent him maybe 150 over the years. Has Paschedag ever done anything with his white Rheingold mountain? Me, I'm totally keeping my Red Devil (Black Label) collection. It's still in the Virginia backyard where I found it, not worth the gas to bring home.

The majority of the old crew here seems to prefer facebook. I don't know how to tilt the balance back. Is it just that FB is free? I have a FB login that I use every three or four years for one reason or another, and within seconds I immediately regret it. Everything that is wrong with regular real ...

There are a few grail cans out there for me, and Dan is auctioning them off with some regularity. So I have to watch, and save. I've consigned a few cans off the shelf for these auctions (Not Dan's, I rarely have trade bait of that quality), some of which have sold for "too much" money and...