In Heaven There is No Beer: A shelf at the Beer Can Museum in Northampton, Mass.
With more than 4,000 vintage beer cans, dating back to 1938, the Beer Can Museum (conveniently situated inside the Ye Old Watering Hole bar) in Northampton, Mass. is a veritable gold mine of brew-can history. Old-school containers of Coors and Bud sit alongside tins of long-defunct labels such as Blitz and Blatz. The best part: there is cheap beer (of a more contemporary, drinkable nature), free pool and a garrulous bartender who’ll show you how he’s doing with his fiddle practice.
Click on the images to see ‘em large. Money shots after the jump.
Billy Carter’s Brew: the infamous Billy beer.
Go Crimson.
Can control: This is the kind of beverage container decoration I would like to see more of.
Not to be confused with a tin of motor oil: Hull’s Export.
A singularly awesome line-up of beer names: Blatz, Blitz and Boh.
The beers were organized alphabetically. This would be the “Sch” corner.
Beer goggles brought to you by Olde Frothingslosh, the Pale Ale for the Pale State Male.
QT: The Beer for Quitters.
The Beer Can Museum, at Ye Olde Watering Hole, 287 Pleasant Street, Northampton, Mass. 413-585-0990.
Posted by C-Monster.
Woweee– not only am I impressed with the obviously historical collection, but the graphic array in those photographs is amazing. PBR is truly inferior.
so many beers that no longer exist to taste… I know most of these were terrible, but what they lacked in flavour, they made up for in graphic design.