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 This is the place to learn about the brewery collectible hobby, how it started, why we do it and how you can too. Learn a bit of beer can history while you're at it.  About our hobby About our club Chapters Beer can history Officers and contacts Our publications Hobby FAQs |
 People just love to collect stuff. Any stuff. Never has the adage "one man's trash is another's treasure" rung so true. It's no wonder, then, that beer drinkers have long enjoyed collecting just about everything with a brewery name or brand on it — what we call breweriana today. Among the first beer collectibles were bottle caps, or crowns, an innovation of the 1890s.  A boomlet in breweriana availability began in January 1920 when the onset of Prohibition forced hundreds of breweries and thousands of saloons and taverns to close their doors. In 1933, the beer started flowing again, and shortly thereafter two brand new beer collectibles were born: the beer can and the beer can opener. (An example of one of the earliest cans is shown to the right.)  Next: More about our hobby |
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