Pfeiffer Extra Special

[kamsquared]

Hey Michigan guys!!
Post pics of your Pfeiffer Extra Special right here...
I didn’t have the heart to put it in the ugliest can contest....


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[idigrust]

I will tomorrow, if I have one, I think I have one.

[WISCONSINCANMAN]

I had an ongrade one, I sold it at Guzzle and Twirl back in '99 and then turned around and bought a Milwaukee Valley.

[henry porter]

Now THAT'S a deal.

[Wheaton]

[Flat_Top]

Think I got this from Leon years ago

[Flat_Top]

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Look who made an appearance

[pinnacle-project]

I do not have this one. I will need to watch for it at shows this summer. It's not much to look at but it's a Michigan flat so I have to have it.

[foreigncanman]

Here9is ours

[JohnLi67]

Here is mine. It's an ugly design, but a real tough can to find (especially on-grade). John

[Leon]

Think I got this from Leon years ago

Yes you did, & I remember that thin fine line scratch. LEON.

[kamsquared]

Here is mine. It's an ugly design, but a real tough can to find (especially on-grade). John

Nicest condition I've seen........

[bantam10]

Cool topic. I’d love to dump one.

[eric]

Cool topic. I’d love to dump one.

Same here. I'm curious if anyone here has dumped one, and when and where.

[bantam10]

Cool topic. I’d love to dump one.

Same here. I'm curious if anyone here has dumped one, and when and where.

Same. And when was this sold??
I’d love to know more about this can.

[Longopener]

I think I’ve only seen one true dumper and the others are indoor, indoor offgrade or really nice what could be described as nice can in a can outdoor cans.

[Leon]

I got a dumper boxed up somewhere, if I find it I'll post a pic. LEON.

[pinnacle-project]

Cool topic. I’d love to dump one.

Same here. I'm curious if anyone here has dumped one, and when and where.

Same. And when was this sold??
I’d love to know more about this can.

I looked on Newspapers.com and found several ads in Muncie, Indiana from May of 1962.

[Beercanpete]

I picked up one about two years ago, out in my barn right now but checklisted as a "grade 3". I can go dig it out and take a photo if anyone's interested (might be a couple days, looks like a busy week at work).

[bantam10]

That brings up another question. I wonder if it was “exported” to other states and not sold in MI? Because that ad that @pinnacle-project posted makes me think so.

[Leon]

Finally found mine boxed up. Here it is. Went from clean indoor can to this Dumper. LEON.

[hemmings]

The bland design gets extra demerits for being forced on them by Schmidt- or is it the other way around?

[Wheaton]

The bland design gets extra demerits for being forced on them by Schmidt- or is it the other way around?

Probably the other way around. Pfeiffer Brewing Co snatched up a lot of small Midwestern breweries in the early 60s, thereby creating the Associated Brewing Company roster. A flurry of familiar brand names started appearing (or re-appearing) from seemingly mix-and-match locales, like E&B from South Bend and Drewry's from Detroit. Included in the acquisitions was Minnesota's Jacob Schmidt Brewing Co. which is obviously the most commonly encountered brand name on this tragically ugly label design. Whatever business wisdom drove the cross-pollination to Pfeiffer Extra Special is probably lost to the ages, but the bottom line is that Associated did a lot of weird stuff in a comparatively short time frame. They vigorously bled capital in the process and effectively killed the parent brewery, which had once been a contender for the title of Michigan's largest.

Epilogue: Stroh's watched from across town and chuckled quietly as Associated...well, dissociated. Guess who came out on top after that dust settled?

[pinnacle-project]

Finally found mine boxed up. Here it is. Went from clean indoor can to this Dumper. LEON.

Yuk! That is not worthy of being on your shelves. You need to send it someplace where it will feel at home with other rusty cans - like my house.

[Leon]

Finally found mine boxed up. Here it is. Went from clean indoor can to this Dumper. LEON.

Yuk! That is not worthy of being on your shelves. You need to send it someplace where it will feel at home with other rusty cans - like my house.

I got plenty of Rusty Cans to keep it company.

[hemmings]

Hard to fathom how Schmidt and Pfeiffer both go from making incredible scenic set cans... and some mouth breather in a suit at a meeting one day says "sorry boys, we're going with something new, something nice..... something "Extra Special" now"...... Pretty sure that's how it went....

[Clarkston1]

Here is another very interesting Michigan beer can discussion I thought I would bump up.
Flying up to the Charlevoix area tomorrow and will try and attend the show in Frankenmuth, would like to pick up a clean Pfeiffer Special if anyone has one available.
They don’t seem to show up that often.

[Wild]

Graphic designers were on strike!

[pinnacle-project]

Here is another very interesting Michigan beer can discussion I thought I would bump up.
Flying up to the Charlevoix area tomorrow and will try and attend the show in Frankenmuth, would like to pick up a clean Pfeiffer Special if anyone has one available.
They don’t seem to show up that often.

Yes, definitely a tough Michigan can. I got mine from somebody on this site. Kurt maybe? @kamsquared I do not recall for sure. It would not surprise me if the Good Guys have one at Frankenmuth. Just to be safe, you may want to contact them directly before the show. I have seen clean ones in their totes before but not all the time.

@Mizmo64

[henry porter]

Graphic designers were on strike!