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A beer is any of a variety of alcoholic beverages produced by the fermentation of starchy material derived from grainss or other plant sources. The production of beer and some other alcoholic beverages is often called brewing. Historically, beer was known to the Sumerians, Egyptians, and Mesopotamians, and dates back at least as far as 4,000 BC. Because the ingredients used to make beer differ from place to place, beer characteristics (type, taste, and colour) vary widely.

Table of contents
1 Ingredients
2 History
3 Types of beer
4 Beer and nationality
5 Related drinks
6 Brewing industry
7 Commercial brands of beer
8 Quotes
9 See also
10 External links

Ingredients

Typically, beers are made from water, malted barley, hops, and fermented by yeast. The addition of other flavourings or sources of sugar is not uncommon.

Because beer is composed mainly of water, the source of the water and its characteristics have an important effect on the character of the beer. Many beer styles were influenced or even determined by the characteristics of the water in the region.

Among malts, barley malt is the most often and widely used owing to its high enzyme content but other malted and unmalted grains are widely used, including wheat, rice, maize, oats, and rye.

Hops are a relatively recent addition to beer, having been introduced only a few hundred years ago. They contribute a bitterness that balances the sweetness of the malt and have a mild antibiotic effect that favours the activity of brewer's yeast over less desirable organisms. Yeast, in a process called fermentation, metabolize the sugars extracted from the grains, producing many compounds including alcohol and carbon dioxide. Dozens of strains of natural or cultured yeasts are used by brewers, roughly sorted into three kinds: ale or top-fermenting, lager or bottom fermenting, and wild yeasts. The scientific name for brewer's yeast is Saccharomyces cerevisiae, an important model organism in molecular and cell biology.

One pint (568 ml) of beer typically contains about two unitss of alcohol, although alcohol content can vary significantly with style and brewer.

History

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Almost any sugar or starch-containing food can naturally undergo fermentation, and so it is likely that beer-like beverages were independently invented in cultures throughout the world. In Mesopotamia, the oldest evidence of beer is on a 6000-year old Sumerian tablet which shows people drinking a beverage through reed straws from a communal bowl. Beer is also mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh, and a 3900-year old Sumerian poem honoring the brewing goddess Ninkasi contains the oldest surviving beer recipe, describing the production of beer from barley via bread. Beer became vital to all the grain-growing civilizations of classical antiquity, especially in Egypt and Mesopotamia. The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi required that tavern-keepers who diluted or overcharged for beer should be put to death.

Beer was important to early Romans, but during Republican times wine displaced beer as the preferred alcoholic beverage, and beer became considered a beverage fit only for barbarians. Tacitus wrote disparagingly of the beer brewed by the Germanic peoples of his day.

In Slavic languages, beer is called "pivo", from the verb "piti" - to drink. So, "pivo" could be translated to English as "the drink".

The Kalevala, collected in written form in the 19th century but based on oral traditions many centuries old, contains more lines about the origin of brewing than are devoted to the origin of man.

Most beers until relatively recent times were what we would now call ales. Lagers were discovered by accident in the sixteenth century when beer was stored in cool caverns for long periods; they have since largely outpaced ales in volume. (See below for the distinction.) The use of Hops for bittering and preservation is a medieval addition. Hops were cultivated in France as early as the 800s. The oldest surviving written record of the use of hops in beer is in 1067 by Abbess Hildegard of Bingen: "If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops." In 15th century England, an unhopped beer would have been known as an ale, while the use of hops would make it a beer. Hopped beer was imported to England (from the Netherlands) as early as 1400 in Winchester and hops were being planted on the island by 1428. The Brewers Company of London went so far as to state "no hops, herbs, or other like thing be put into any ale or liquore wherof ale shall be made--but only liquor (water), malt, and yeast." However, by the 16th century, "ale" had come to refer to any strong beer, and all ale and beer were hopped.

Methods of brewing changed very little from that time. In 1953, New Zealander Morton W Coutts developed the technique of continuous fermentation which was the first major change to brewing since the 16th century. Morton patented his process which revolutionised the industry by reducing a four-month long brewing process to less than 24 hours [1]. His process is still used my many of the world’s major breweries today, including Guinness.

Types of beer

There are many different types of beers. A comprehensive description of beer styles can be found at the website of the Beer Judge Certification Program.

Lager

Lagers are probably the most common type of beer consumed. They are of Central European / German origin, taking their name from the German lagern ("to store"). Bottom-fermented, they were traditionally stored at a low temperature for weeks or months, clearing, acquiring mellowness, and becoming charged with carbon dioxide. These days, with improved fermentation control, most lager breweries use only short periods of cold storage (1 - 3 weeks).

Although many styles of lager exist, most of the lager produced is light in colour, high in carbonation with a mild hop flavour and an alcohol content of 3-6% by volume. Styles of lager include:

Ale

Top-fermented beers, particularly popular in the British Isles, include mild, bitter, pale ale, porter, and stout. Top-fermented beers tend to be more flavoursome, including a variety of grain flavours and fermentation flavours; they have also lower carbonation and are fermented and ideally served at a higher temperature than lager. Stylistic differences among top-fermented beers are decidedly more varied than those found among bottom-fermented beers and many beer styles are difficult to categorize. California Common beer, for example, is produced using a lager yeast at ale temperatures. Wheat beers are often produced using an ale yeast and then lagered, sometimes with a lager yeast). Lambics employ wild yeasts and bacteria, naturally-occurring in the Payottenland region of Belgium. Other examples of ale include stock ale and old ale. Real ale is a term for beers produced using traditional methods, and without pasteurization.

Other

North American beers are listed below.

Beer and nationality

Australia

It is a common misconception that Australians drink Foster's Lager. This is untrue - it is a joke among Australians that Fosters was so bad that they decided to export that one and keep the rest. Australians are divided over their beer by their state; Queenslanders love their XXXX; South Australians drink Coopers; in New South Wales they drink Tooheys; Victoriansns prefer a VB; Western Australians drink Swan beer; and Tasmanians are further divided; those in the north drink Boags, and those in the south drink Cascade. Although it is generally quite difficult to tell an Australian that there is any other beer than his home state's beer, other popular brews are Hahn and Crown. Particularly in the trendier areas of the major cities, specialty brews, including a wide variety of ales, some by new divisions of the major brewers and some by new microbreweries, are beginning to become popular, as are some foreign beers.

Having said that, you can pretty much get most of these beers anywhere except the grubbiest most down-market pubs and clubs, which exclusively serve VB, the various varieties of Tooheys, and in NSW Resches.

Belgium

Like other nationalities, Belgians pride themselves on their rich beer culture. There are over 1500 kinds of Belgian beer (including label beer) among which Stella Artois, Alken Maes, Jupiler, Delirium Tremens (brand), Duvel, Kwak, Leffe and Hoegaarden are some of the best known. It is often said (particularly by Belgians) that the Belgian beers are particularly excellent. Belgium is the only country that has Trappist beer. External link: Beers of Belgium.

Each variety of Belgian beer is served in a specific glass. The shape and size of the glass varies, and functions to enhance the flavor of the particular beer.

Britain

One common stereotype of the British (and indeed most residents of the British Isles) concerns their love of "warm beer". In fact, their beer is usually served around 12 degrees Celsius - not as cool as most cold drinks, but still cool enough to be refreshing. Modern-day pubs keep their beer constantly at this temperature, but originally beer would be served at the temperature of the cellar in which it was stored. Proponents of British beer say that it relies on subtler flavours than that of other nations, and these are brought out by serving it at a temperature that would make other beers seem harsh. Where harsher flavours do exist in beer (most notably in those brewed in Yorkshire), these are traditionally mitigated by serving the beer through a hand pump fitted with a sparkler, a device that mixes air with the beer, oxidising it slightly and softening the flavour. Nowadays, only real ale tends to be served via a hand pump, not a typical way for mass-produced beers to be served - it is common to find the latter sold in bottles or drawn from a carbon dioxide-driven tap. Real Ale is championed by the Campaign for Real Ale. With the growing of hops being characteristic of southern counties in particular Kent, traditional southern beers, such as London Pride, south of a line that can been drawn from the Bristol channel to the Wash (on the east coast of England) typically contain more hops than those found north of this line such as Boddingtons.

Bulgaria

Bulgaria, while being quite a small country in Eastern Europe, has quite a number of beer brands. The most popular breweries (all producing namesake lagers) are Zagorka (produced mainly in Stara Zagora), AstikA (Produced in city of Haskovo) and Kamenitza. Other remarkable brands are Stolichno (bock beer produced by Zagorka), Shumensko (both lager and red ale, produced in the city of Shumen), Burgasko (produced in the city of Burgas), MM (produced in the city of Varna), Pirinsko (brewed in the city of Blagoevgrad), and Plevensko (produced in the city of Pleven). Most of the Bulgarian breweries are currently owned by foreign breweries, such as Heineken (Zagorka) and Interbrew (AstikA and Kamenitza).

Canada

Canada has a long history of beer production as the cold winter climate provided ideal conditions for brewing before artificial refrigeration was invented. It is well known for its two large commercial breweries, Molson and Labatt, and also for its large number of smaller companies brewing premium beers. Among these micro/mini breweries are Vancouver, British Columbia's Granville Island Brewery, Calgary, Alberta based Big Rock Brewery and Guelph, Ontario's Sleeman Brewing and Malting Company. In addition, the popular SCTV characters, Bob & Doug McKenzie;, are famous Canadian characters who are as associated for their love of beer as Cheech and Chong are for marijuana. I Am Canadian is a beer commercial that became a source of national pride.

Czech Republic

The Pilsener style of beer originated in the town of Plzen in Bohemia, and the Czechs make many well known and well regarded beers of this style, including the original Budweiser. The Czechs consume the highest per capita amount of beer.

Egypt

The local brand is called Stella, not to be confused with the Belgian Stella Artois. It is primarily sold to foreign, non-Muslim, tourists.

Estonia and Finland

Both of these countries are known for their traditional Sahti, which is a beer made from rye or oat malts that are filtered through straws and juniper twigs. According to beerhunter Michael Jackson, it is by far the oldest continuous living tradition of beer making, representing nothing less than a direct link with Babylonian beer-making methods.

France

Although the French market is dominated by industrial breweries, the Nord/Pas-de-Calais possesses strong brewing traditions and breweries (Pelforth, for example), which it shares with its Belgian neighbor across the border. Alsace, also has a strong tradition of brewing beer with bottom fermenting yeasts in the German style. Nowadays, there are more and more micro breweries that are producing "fashion beer", especially in the regions with a strong identity (Brewerie Lancelot in Bretagne, beer Pietra in Corsica,...)

Germany

With an extremely strong beer-oriented culture, the German market is a bit sheltered from the rest of the world beer market by the German brewers adherance to the Bavarian Reinheitsgebot (purity commandment) dating from 1516, according to which the only allowed ingredients of beer are "Wasser (water), Hopfen (hops) und (Gersten-)Malz (barley-malt)". Through this agreement (which was law up to 1988), beers from Germany tend to have a good reputation for their quality. The Germans are slightly behind the Czechs in their per capita consumption of beer. There are a variety of different styles of German beer, such as Helles (lager from Bavaria), Weizen (fermented wheat beer), Kölsch (top-fermented beer from the Cologne region), Alt (a dark beer drunk around Düsseldorf and Dortmund), Pilsner, Export (a milder version of Pilsner) and Bockbier (a dark strong beer).

While the beer market is more centralized in northern Germany (with the biggest brands Krombacher, Warsteiner and Bitburger each selling about 400 million liters), the south has lots of very small, local breweries which add up to a total of 1350 breweries in Germany producing over 5000 brands of beer. One of these breweries, the Benedictine abbey Weihenstephan (established in 725) is reputedly the oldest brewery in the world.

The alcohol content usually is between 4.7% and 5.4% for most traditional brews. Bockbier or Doppelbock (double Bockbier) however can have an alcohol content of up to 12%. Bockbier season is during June and July and a lot of local Bockbier festivals are typically held in the south of Germany.

The Munich Oktoberfest is well known for the millions of litres that are served every year (almost 6).

India

Modern brewing began for India in the early days of the British Empire - the mid-1700s. The demand for beer in the hot Indian climate by the British administrators and the troops was so great that it led to the creation of a completely new style of beer by George Hodgson in his London brewery - India Pale Ale. IPA is a strong, highly hopped ale designed to survive the five month ocean voyage to India without spoiling. India Pale Ale was shipped with every voyage for over a century and became very popular in Britain and North America.

In the late 1820s Edward Dyer moved from England to set up the first brewery in India at Kasauli (later incorporated as Dyer Breweries in 1855) in the Himayalas near Shimla, producing Asia's first beer called Lion. The brewery was soon shifted to nearby Solan (close to the British summer capital Shimla), as there was an abundant supply of fresh springwater there. The Kasauli brewery site was converted to a distillery which Mohan Meakin Ltd. still operates. Dyer set up more breweries at Shimla, Murree, Rawalpindi and Mandalay.

Another entrepreneur, H G Meakin, moved to India and bought the old Shimla and Solan Breweries from Edward Dyer and added more at Ranikhet, Dalhousie, Chakrata, Darjeeling and Kirkee. In 1935, when Burma was separated from India, the company was restructured with its Indian assets as Dyer Meakin Breweries, a public company on the London Stock Exchange. Following independence in 1949, N.N. Mohan took over management of the company and the name was changed to Mohan Meakin. The company continues to produce beer across India to this day and Lion is still available in northern India.

Today however, no brewer in India makes India Pale Ale. All Indian beers are either lagers (5 per cent alcohol - such as Australian lager) or strong lagers (8 per cent alcohol - such as the popular MAX super strong beer). International Breweries have recently announced an intention to work with Mohan Meakin to produce and launch an India Pale Ale called Indian IPA from India's first brewery at Solan.

In various parts of north-eastern India, traditional rice beer is quite popular. Several festivals feature this nutritious, quite intoxicating, drink as part of the celebrations. The rice is fermented in vats that are sometimes buried underground. It is quite popular, and not only with humans. Elephants have been known to attack villages and raid these vats.

Ireland

Ireland is best known for stout, of which Guinness is the largest selling and most widely distributed brand. Guinness also make the most widely distributed Irish lager - Harp. It is recommended that Guinness be served after being poured, waiting for three minutes and then topped-up. Along with Guinness there are also Murphy's, Caffrey's and Beamish.

Italy

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Japan

Beer is the most favoured alcoholic drink in Japan. It was introduced in the early Meiji Era from Germany. Major makers are Asahi, Kirin, and Sapporo while small local breweries supply distinct tasting beers. Lager beers are most common but beers made with lower grain contents called "Happoushu" (sparkling alcoholic drink) have captured a large part of the market as tax is lower on these products. Drinking beer with salted boiled beans, edamame, is known as a favourite summer pastime for adults.

New Zealand

The indigenous people of New Zealand (Maori) did not brew beer. The major ingredients of beer were not found or introduced to New Zealand until the arrival of Europeans in the mid 1800's. The late European history is characterised by the dominance of about three large breweries. The dominance of these breweries was helped by the buying of some of the small local breweries. From the mid 1980's small boutique or microbreweries started to emerge. Consequently, the range of beer styles increased. Some pubs operate their own small breweries, often housed within the pub itself. Wine and ready mixed alcoholic drink consumption is increasing and is lessening the quantity of beer being sold.

Poland

Beer has always been extremely important for Poles. One Polish ruler, encouraged by the Pope to take part in a crusade, refused because, as he wrote to the Pope, the holy land has no beer. Traditional Polish beer is usually pilsener, lager or porter. The most popular Polish brands are Żywiec;, EB, Lech, Lezajsk, and Tyskie.

Romania

Romanian beer is known in Central and Eastern Europe for its taste and low price. Ursus is the king of the Romanian beer from 1879 (a brand of South African Breweries). Other traditional Romanian beer brands are Timisoreana, Bucegi and Neumarkt.

Russia

Russians are always being known as heavy drinkers and beer (Russian Ïèâî - Pivo) it is probably nation's number two alcoholic drink after Vodka. Unlike the rest of the world, Russians categorize beer by color, not by fermentation process: Light, Red or Semi-Dark, and Dark. Light is a more or less equivalent to Lager and last two are close to Ales. There are also super-strong beers (6-10% of alcohol) very popular in Russia. The most known brands of Russian beer are Baltica and Stary Melnik, however almost every region of Russia is proud to have its own brewery.

Serbia and Montenegro

see Beer in Serbia and Montenegro

Slovakia

Slovaks, like their neighbours, like to drink beer. They have a wide spectrum of brands on the market suitable for everybody's taste. The most famous brands are Šariš, Smädný mních (which translates to Thirsty Monk) , Radegast and many more.

Spain

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United States

The USA has always been a beer-drinking nation. The diary of William Bradford records that the Mayflower made landfall at Plymouth Rock under duress: "We could not now take much time for further search...our victuals being much spent, especially our beer." [1]

The brewing traditions of England and the Netherlands (as brought to New York) ensured that the colonies would be dominated by beer drinking and not the imbibing of wine. Up until the middle of the 19th century, ales dominated American brewing. This changed as the lager styles, brought by German immigrants, turned out to be more profitable for large-scale manufacturing and shipping. Names such as Miller, Pabst, and Schlitz became known through the breweries they founded or acquired, and many others followed. Czech immigrants also made their contributions to US beer.

The lager brewed by these companies was not the extremely weak and mild lager now associated with modern US megabreweries. This American pilsner was a significantly stronger beer, both in flavour and alcohol, that was designed to meet the appetites of both Native Americans and central European immigrants.

All of this came to a halt when Prohibition was imposed. Only a few of the largest breweries were able to stay in business -- by manufacturing near beer, malt syrup, or other non-alcohol grain products. Production and shipping of alcohol was largely confined to illegal operations, which could deliver potent liquors -- smuggled rum and domestic moonshine -- more efficiently and safely than bulkier products such as beer.

For more than fifty years after the end of Prohibition, the United States beer market was heavily dominated by large commercial breweries, producing beers more noted for their uniformity than for any particular flavour. Beers such as those made by Anheuser-Busch and Coors followed a restricted pilsner style, with large-scale industrial processes and the use of low-cost ingredients (such as rice and corn). The dominance of the so-called "macrobrew" led to an international stereotype of "American beer" as poor in quality and flavour.

However, since the resurgence of the commercial craft brewing industry in the 1980s, the United States now features many beers, offered by over 1500 brewpubs, microbreweries, and regional brewers such as Anchor (San Francisco) and Samuel Adams (Boston). In much of eastern Pennsylvania including Philadelphia, the word "lager" is synonymous with Yuengling Traditional Lager, a flavorful beer from a regional brewery in Pottsville founded in 1829, making it the oldest continuously operating brewery in America. While in volume, the macrobrews still dominate, smaller producers brew in a variety of styles influenced by local sources of hops and other ingredients as well as by various European traditions.

The Association of Brewers has identified the following styles of North American origin:

The success of the commercial craft brewing industry has led the large breweries to invest in smaller breweries such as Widmer, and to develop more complex beers of their own.

Related drinks

Beers, and similar beverages made from raw materials other than barley, include:

Brewing industry

Commercial brands of beer

Quotes

  • "Beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy." — Benjamin Franklin
  • We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." — Samuel Johnson in 1781 on the sale of Henry Thrale's Anchor Brewery
  • "Give me a woman who truly loves beer, and I will conquer the world." — Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • "Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man" — A. E. Housman
  • "This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord has intended a more divine purpose. Let us give praise to His name, and glory to his creation, by learning about beer!" Friar Tuck in the movie Robin Hood:Prince of Thieves.
  • "Alcohol: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." — Homer Simpson

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Brewery Collectibles Club of America
National organization for collectors of beer cans and other breweriana. Formerly known as the Beer Can Collectors of America. Publisher of United States Beer Cans, the standard reference for flat top and cone top beer cans. Provides history of can collecting in the United States, a calendar of shows world-wide, pictures of collectible can types, can collecting FAQs, links, plus membership information.
http://www.bcca.com/index.html

Beer cans at CanManDanLand
Collector specializes in California cans. Pictures of collection, New Mexico breweriana, cans for sale and details from several shows.
http://www.usbeercans.com/

Beer Can Exchange
Buys and trades vintage beer cans including flat tops, and cone tops.
http://www.beercanexchange.com

Beer Can World
Beer Can Collector web site includes information on collecting beer cans and how beer cans are graded and priced. Pictures of beer can types including cone top and flat top can plus pictures of his collection. Includes beer can collecting terminology. Links to other beer can collecting web sites.
http://www.beercanworld.com

Beercans.org
Beer can history for both US and international. Cans are available for sale and the collectors behind beercans.org are looking to purchase cans for their collection.
http://www.beercans.org/

Florida Breweriana Page
Mike Zane specializes in collecting Florida breweriana including cans, labels, glasses, and other items. Photos of early Florida breweries.
http://members.aol.com/mzane36636/collect/index.htm

Syracuse Beer
Collects cans, tap handles, trays, signs, bottles, openers and other breweriana from in and around Syracuse, New York.
http://www.geocities.com/syracusebeer

Boston Beer Cans
Collector buys and sells vintage beer cans.
http://www.bostonbeercans.com

Jim's Pokrywka's Beer Can Page
Collector specializes in collecting cans from New England and Connecticut in particular. Other breweriana includes trays and coasters.
http://hometown.aol.com/jppokrywka/index.html

Dan Baker's All Beer Cans
Buys, sells, and trades vintage beer cans, trays, statues, tap knobs and other breweriana. Specializes in flat tops from Wisconsin and Illinois. Information on dumping plus pictures of his collection.
http://www.allbeercans.com

Idaho Breweriana
Collector specializes in collecting flat top and cone top beer cans and other breweriana from Idaho and Montana.
http://www.angelfire.com/id/idahobreweriana/index.html

Kev's Cans
Collector site with pictures and links specializing in cans from New York state and cans with pictures or references to soccer.
http://www.angelfire.com/ny/kevscans/index.html

Christian Bernaud's Beer Cans
Christian Bernaud's collection shows some of the 8,500 cans in his collection from around the world. Trades cans from all countries.
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/chrstn/index_a.html

South Australian and Northern Territory Division of the ABCCA
Club site of the South Australian and Northern Territory Division of the Australian Beer Can Collectors Association provides a show calendar, history of both the club and can collecting in Australia. Includes a membership list plus links and classifieds.
http://www.users.senet.com.au/~peterlt

Larwood Limited
Collectible beer can dealer maintains inventory of cans for sale. Specializes in rare and exotic cans. Publishes catalog of beer cans including pricing and ratings.
http://www.larwoodlimited.com

The Beer Can Man
Buys, sells, and trades collectible beer cans, or accepts them on consignment. Dumping information, links, and some pictures of his collection.
http://www.beercanman.com/

Vintage Cans
Collector's site for buying, selling, and consigning beer cans and other breweriana. Links to the collector community and pictures of his collection.
http://www.vintagecans.com/

Ted Bartolacci's Beer Can Collection
Personal collection of over 3000 cans and over 1500 bottles.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/tbartolacci/beerpage.htm

Busch Mountains
Containing over 40,000 Busch beer cans covering every wall in the house.
http://www.buschmountains.com/

Storzman's Beer Cans
Buys and collects vintage beer cans with a special interest in cans from Nebraska, Colorado and Massachusetts. Pictures of his collection.
http://www.angelfire.com/ne2/beercans

Jim's Beer Cans
Collects and sells cone tops and flat tops, advertisements, bottles, labels, soda cone tops, trays, and soda cans. Pictures of some of his collection. Ohio cans wanted.
http://www.angelfire.com/oh/jimscans

James Tabaska's beer can website
This site features photos of over 2,000 beer cans for sale. Many U.S. and non-U.S. cans are available.
http://www.angelfire.com/wi/beercans

Beer Can Keeper
Information about a unique product that protects rare beer cans and soda cans from humidity, scratches, dents, dirt and handling.
http://www.beercankeeper.com

John Gruskin Beer Cans
New York collector buys, sells, and trades beer cans and related items. Photos of items for sale.
http://www.angelfire.com/ny/beerstuff/index.html

Beer Cans from Asia
Sells only Beer Cans from Malaysia/Asia. Links.
http://www.geocities.com/malaysiancollectibles/beercans.html

Ed Scoglietti's OldBeerCans.com
Beer can site of collector Ed Scoglietti. Nice photos of cans and other beer items. Dumping stories and photos of some recent finds also shown.
http://www.oldbeercans.com/

Jim's Beer Cans
Pictures of his collection. Specializes in beer cans from Australia and New Zealand. Seeks trading partners.
http://jimsbeercans.bebto.com

Cone Tops
Devoted to the collecting of cone top beer cans. Photos of cans and stories of several finds of old cans.
http://www.conetops.com

K.G. Schmidt Chapter of the BCCA
Chapter, membership and show information.
http://www.angelfire.com/in/Bobshome

Donald Higgins beer can website
Collector's website with photographs of some very rare and graphic cans. Also has cans and breweriana for sale and trade.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/5504/

Michigan Beer Cans
Very comprehensive site highlighting the beer cans of Michigan. Includes a pictorial digital reference of all known beer cans produced by the state of Michigan including minor variations.
http://www.mbcinfo.com

Olde Frothingslosh Chapter - BCCA
Pittsburgh's chapter of the Beer Can Collectors of America. Features information on membership, chapter history, member profiles, upcoming shows, and other chapter happenings.
http://www.oldefrothingslosh.com

Mich-I-Cans
Dedicated to the beer cans of Michigan, and run by Chris Taylor (BCCA Member # 29470).
http://members.aol.com/ctay777/collect/index.htm

Bernie's Beer Can Paradise
Austrian collector. Catalog of several thousand international cans and cans available for trade. Includes some pictures.
http://www.8ung.at/beercans/main.htm

Cone Top Heaven
Collector specializes in cone top cans. Provides pictures of his collection and links to sites of interest. Cone top cans from PA, OH, or NY are the specialty here.
http://www.geocities.com/zippo007_99/walleye1.html

Michigan Beer Cans
Collector specializes in buying and selling beer cans produced by Michigan breweries. Pictures of his collections are included as are popular links.
http://www.mibeercans.com/

Rogalski Brothers
Full-time beer can dealers in Florida. Photos and prices of cans for sale. Photos of nice bock beer can collection shown.
http://www.beercans.com

Brent Gesland's Beer Cans
Informative and graphic site. Shows photos of some very rare cans. Also shown are some famous finds of old cans.
http://www.angelfire.com/ia/beercans/index.cnt.html

North Star Chapter - BCCA
Minnesota's own chapter of the Beer Can Collectors of America. Features information about membership, upcoming shows, publications, and beer-related links.
http://www.geocities.com/northstarchap

Rick Gerhart, Reading PA beer cans
Collector trying to add to his collecton of Reading, Pennsylvania beer cans. Trade list is shown, along with some photos of "wanted" cans.
http://www.angelfire.com/or/readingcans

Queen City Chapter of the BCCA
Ohio based chapter of the Beer Can Collectors of America. Informative site offering information on shows, membership, and chapter officers.
http://home.fuse.net/mries/qcc.htm

Simon Pure Chapter of the BCCA
New York based chapter of the Beer Can Collectors of America.
http://www.simonpure.org

Spencer's Beer Can Korner
Large and informative site relating to collectible beer cans. Want ads and interesting articles.
http://www.zianet.com/spencer

Beer Can Collectors of America: Trillium Chapter, #110
Toronto-area chapter. Includes membership application and photo gallery of new and old cans.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~avdichuk/

Beer Can Collectors of America - Three Rivers Chapter
Based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Background of BCCA, list of cans produced in Indiana and list of related sites.
http://www.geocities.com/trcnews/

Art's Beer Cans
Beer can collector buys and sells cone top, flat top, and pull tab beer cans. Photos and prices of available cans.
http://www.artsbeercans.com

My Beer Cans - Vintage Beer Cans Collected.
Beer cans bought by collector. Buys cone top and flat top vintage beer cans only. Also collects soda cans. Collection pictures and links to other sites of interest. Beer can collecting tutorial. Beer can grading explained.
http://www.mybeercans.com

Ed Davidoff's Aussie Beercan Page
Information for collectors of world-wide beercans, especially those specializing in Australia. List and photos of cans for trade are shown.
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/Vineyard/1668/index.html

WW2 beer cans
An interesting look at WW2 beer cans. Photos of many cans shown, including olive drab versions. Also shows soldiers drinking from cone top cans.
http://www.usbeercans.com/canmandan1/Page_30.html

Crowntainer Central
Gary Gauger's site devoted to the history of the crowntainer beer can. Photos of the collection and available trade stock are included.
http://www.tconl.com/~gauger/index.htm

Global Beer Cans
Beer can collector specializes in old beer cans from Great Britain and Japan. Includes pictures of can types such as cone tops, flat tops and pull tabs plus photos of his collection.
http://www.globalbeercans.com

Beer Can Talk. - A Discussion Forum for Beer Can Collectors
Open Forum for collectors of vintage beer cans. Includes sub-forums on various can types as well as a calendar of events of interest to collectors.
http://www.beercantalk.com

Ron Small's Best Beer Cans
Collector web site with photos of his collection along with a brief history of how each can was acquired. Also purchases vintage cans.
http://www.bestbeercans.com

Ed Kramer's Collector Cans
Beer can collector Ed Kramer's site dedicated to his collection. Features interesting WWII beer photos and some very rare items.
http://www.collectorcans.com/index.htm

Tavern Trove
Buys and sells flat top, cone top, and tab top beer cans and other breweriana collectibles such as tap knobs, trays, and signs.
http://www.taverntrove.com

Steve's Cincinnati Area Beer Cans
Collector specialized in cans from the Cincinnati area. Photo of collection shown and list of breweries interested in.
http://www.cincycanman.com

Rusty Bunch Chapter of the Beer Can Collectors of America
Run by and for collectors who locate old beer cans in dumps. Informational site about the club, membership, dates and information about upcoming beer can shows, links, plus a member's chatroom.
http://www.rustybunch.com

Warren's Beer Can Trade Lists
Collector since 1976. Lists of cans wanted and to trade as well as photo gallery.
http://home.earthlink.net/~beercans/

Ibel Prinsen
Dutch collector specializing in Tennent's cans. Extensive pictures of collection as well as trade list.
http://home.planet.nl/~prins916/index.htm

Alberto Penalver
Collector located in Spain. Some pictures of cans from other countries sold in Spain.
http://www.angelfire.com/al/cerveza/

East Taunton Beercan and Breweriana Museum
Photo gallery of collection and history.
http://kevslog.tripod.com/ETBCM/

Beer Cans Are Beautiful
Includes photos of collection, want and trade lists.
http://www.afn.org/~afn02855/

Roberto Mulas
Venezualan collector. Includes beer history in Venezuala and list of countries represented by collection.
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/8588

Mid-Michigan Chapter BCCA
Information about the Mid-Michigan chapter of the Beer Can Collectors of America. Features upcoming shows, membership information, and photographs.
http://midmichigan.freewebsitehosting.com/midmich.htm

VicLucarelli.com
Collector specializing in Buckeye brewery. Information on local BCCA chapter and history of the Buckeye Brewery. [Java required]
http://www.viclucarelli.com/

Panzani's Beer Pages
Brazilian collector. List of cans categorized by country and translations of "beer" into several dozen languages.
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/1747/

Conetop.com
Historical information about and pictures of domestic cone top cans from the first cans to the 1950's. Buys, sells, and trades cone top cans.
http://www.conetop.com/

Maurizio's Beer Can Page
Collector of old European cans. Offers antique Italian breweriana for sale or trade.
http://geocities.com/NapaValley/Cellar/2377/

Beer Can News
News about beer cans from UK, Europe, Japan, and around the world. Photos and history of beer cans.
http://beercannews.com/

Rusty Cans
Collector buys, sells, and trades beer cans. Gives information and short history on collecting, dumping, and where to find cans. Includes information on Billy Beer and other valueless cans plus information on fakes and frauds.
http://www.rustycans.com/

Trophy Beer
Collects, buys and sells cans, signs, and trays. Provides pictures of his collection and includes a brief history of can collecting.
http://www.geocities.com/trophybeer/

Dump Digging to Get Beer cans
All about collecting and dump digging for old beer cans. Information on beercan cleaning, metal detecting, and how to find dumps. Also includes dumping stories with pictures of finds.
http://hometown.aol.com/mrbeercan/beercan.html

Robs Beer Can Site
Rob collects, buys and sells beer cans and provides pictures of his collection.
http://geocities.com/merlin_78704/brewmania.html

Keith Belcher - Beer Can Central
Cone top and flat top cans for sale. Also see some very graphic cans shown from the collection.
http://www.beercancentral.com

Dee Lander's Beer Showcase
Old US cone top and flat top beer cans for sale. Some breweriana available, as well. Repairs damaged cans and replaces missing lids.
http://www.beershowcase.com

Lennart's Beer Can Collection
The international beer can collection of Lennart Eriksson comprised of cans from many countries.
http://www.jonglera.nu/

Ray's Australian Beer Cans
Collects and trades beer cans and other breweriana. Links and show schedules.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~beercanologist/index.htm

Curt's Canadian Beer Cans
Collector of Canadian beer cans, signs, trays, ashtrays, crowns, and labels. Pictures of his collection.
http://curtscanadiancans.homestead.com/index.html

Beercanswanted.com
Buys, sell, and trades vintage beer cans including cone tops, flat tops, and pull tabs.
http://www.beercanswanted.com

Badger Bunch Chapter of the Beer Can Collectors of America
Club homepage with club information and history, news and events, plus pictures from recent shows.
http://www.badgerbunch.com

Connecticut Red Fox Chapter of the Beer Can Collectors of America
Club website includes membership and show information plus links and photos.
http://www.angelfire.com/ct/redfox/

Scandinavian Beer Can Collectors: John & Nina
These collectors specialize in full beer cans from Scandinavia. Photos of cans and collection shown.
http://home9.inet.tele.dk/jonibirk/

Fodor's Breweriana
Collector specializes in breweriana from the F&S Brewery of Shamokin, PA. Old photos and brewery history explained.
http://www.haywired.com/stahkalien/

Gene's Can Shop
Gene Crane's beer can site. List of US and non-US cans for sale in various price ranges.
http://www.citlink.net/~genescanshop/index.htm

Mike Apostol's Beer Cans
Collector of flat top and pull top vintage beer cans. Photographs of collection shown. Will buy, sell, or trade cans.
http://geocities.com/mapostol@prodigy.net/beer.html

Texascans Beer Cans
Steve Fernandes website highlighting Texas and California beer cans along with items associated with Pearl Beer and the Pearl Brewing Company.
http://users3.ev1.net/~kirene/BeerCanHomePage.html


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