Beer Cans Wanted (Pub Beer Cans are Art)

I am a collector of beer cans of sorts. I have been collecting English pub beer (pint) cans for a while. I make some into lamps. (Yeah, well, I'm weird. But they look cool to me:

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But I live in southeastern Massachusetts. And it is rare to find a place that sells good beer in cans beyond the several that I already have.

The English pub beer cans are ART as far as I am concerned, as Boddingtons, Tetley's and Caffrey's so elegantly show.

So I'm thinking, perhaps people could offer to me information about places to get more of these really excellent looking pub beer cans.

Maybe people trade in beer cans? I am willing to consider buying cans. However, they are delicate and not easily shipped (unless full ;-).

P.S.

If I am posting in the wrong place feel free to flame me at my yahoo account.

P.P.S.

The r.f.d.b. FAQ Subject: 5-4. Can I get beer in the mail? has a broken link by the way.

P.P.P.S.

If you happen to see my Pub Beer Can lamps and are interested, I will not make any out of any beer any where near the likes of budwiser et al.

Reply to
c5
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re. your P.P.P.S.: Yet you make them out of "Boddingtons, Tetley's and Caffrey's"?

Reply to
The Archer

I'm willing to bet that his point was that Budweiser's can are ungly as sin. While the above beers' containers are very nicely laid out (in my opinion, and I assume his as well).

\\paul

Reply to
Paul Hobson

Not sure what you mean. I wrote that sentence not good.

There are two things, to me, about quality, with regard to creating something that will be part of a home's decor. In this case quality is two fold: aesthetic and taste.

English pub beer, to me, the artistic nature of their cans as well as the flavor or their brews, are in a much higher class than mass-marketed "consumer" beer. This is, of course, my opinion. This is from someone who drank the most popular of American beers for many years. What one swills in a bar or barbeque with buddys need not be the best tasting. Who but the extreme rich drinks Dom Perignon 1996 everyday? One must limit the better for those times when one wants to reflect and enjoy what one is drinking.

There are several reasons why I would use a term like "the likes of Budweiser et. al." For everyday drinking in a bar or when coming home from work and quenching your thirst, "the likes of Budweiser et. al." are fine. But as far as, in this context, making what I consider (dubious or not) a piece of art who would want to use a generic mass-marketed, corporate "logo" that exemplifies cheap production and poor taste? Bud, Michelob, Heinekin, Zima etc. -- hyped up imagery more than simple quality.

That is what I meant.

Reply to
c5

That's obvious.

Are you suffering from the delusion that the likes of Boddington's, Tetley's, and Caffrety's are anything but mass-produced industrial beers, and not so very different from the boring mass-produced lagers and FMB you mention? Boddington's is nitro-canned flavorless crap, Tetley's is bland and dull, and Caffrey's is little better than the other two. They are closer to the likes of "Bud, Michelob, Heinekin, Zima etc." than you apparently realize.

Reply to
dgs

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However, in my experience, they are far less gassy than the latter bunch. This alone may make them considerably more appealing to some folks.

Reply to
Bruce Weaver

Just my opinion, Don, but I'd much rather have a Tetley's than the other two. I honestly think it's quite a step up from Boddington's.

Reply to
Lew Bryson

You're right, but it's still nothing impressive. My point is that if someone's going to get all fussy about an after-market use for a container - say, a beer can - there's not a lot of point fussing about what used to be in it. The vast majority of breweries churning out canned beer are not usually little mom-and-pop businesses making unique specialty brews. The exceptions, like Oskar Blues in Colorado, are still pretty small in number. Reminds me to stop in somewhere for cans of Old Chub and Dale's Pale Ale, though.

Reply to
dgs

Wouldn't go out of my way for it, but I'd drink it.

Yeah. They're GOOD!

Reply to
Lew Bryson

Apparently so. Did I miss that Caffery's was competing with Bud for Super Bowl commercials?

Oh please. How much is *OPINION* here?

Oh please again. Thing is, some beer *has* flavour. Certainly Heinekin does, but those others? Bland and dul indeed.

(Granted, my crap regarding "quality" re: cans as decor was, well, crap. I can always open a bewpub instead.)

Reply to
c5

You're looking in the wrong country. No matter what its country of origin, the Caffrey's brand is owned by the company that acquired the part of Bass's brand assets that Interbrew - er, "InBev" - had to sell off. Wanna guess what the company is? Hint: Golden, Colorado.

And in the UK and Ireland, you'd better believe that Caffrey's is just another mass-market brand, produced by the same company that markets Carling lager there. Just because a brand isn't being flogged at some American mass-media sports event doesn't mean it's not a mass-market beer. You'll see plenty of Caffrey's brand marketing in the UK and Ireland. Enough with the America-centric viewpoint, already.

In case you haven't heard, it's *all* opinion, including your views on the merits of mass-produced lagers like Bud, Heineken, et al. So big deal: these are British mass-produced ales. The lot of 'em are pretty boring, too. And it's the big guys who can afford the mass-production facilities, including the canning lines.

Boddington's - the stuff in the nitrocans, anyway - has flavo(u)r? Compared to a decent ale - even a bottled product from the likes of, say, Fuller's - no, hardly any at all. Tetley's has a little flavor. Caffrey's? Whatever. I was quite disappointed the first time I tried that stuff, back when it was new and featured at a Bass pub. Nice color, but tasted of hardly anything. Fortunately, the same pub had some Highgate Mild on cask, in middling good condition.

Boddington's is a brand owned by one of the largest brewing conglomerates in the world. That conglomerate, due to last year's merger, is now comparable to Anheuser-Busch in size. Boddie's is in no way some specialty brew from a small or regional brewery, and barely rates being mentioned in the same sentence with Hyde's, Holt's, or Lees, located in the same British city where the Strangeways brewery has been brewing Boddington's - a brewery that is due to be shut down by the InBev brewing conglomerate.

Or you could score some of the Oscar Blues canned beers, if you're fortunate enough to live where they're sold. Great stuff in those cans. And there are other damn good canned beers, including more than a few from Germany and the Czech Republic. But if micro-canning spreads in the USA, you're going to see some great, flavorful canned beers out there, and some of the packaging might even be deemed worthy enough for your art projects.

Reply to
dgs

Yes I know. You just came on a bit harsh and felt that I had to remind you. ;-)

Thanks for the intelligent reply.

Reply to
c5

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