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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 |
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 Beer can collecting probably began shortly after the very first beer cans, from the Krueger Brewing Company, showed up in stores in January 1935. Undoubtedly many beer drinkers were fascinated with this revolution in packaging. They were nearly unbreakable, stacked easily, chilled quickly, were colorful and — perhaps best of all — hassle free and non-returnable. What's more they required the use of another brand new collectible: the beer can opener. 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. Many owners and workers held on to advertising items that were left behind. After Repeal, when a brewery would close, taverns often sold or gave away the advertising items from that brewery which they had displayed.  The modern era of the hobby began in St. Louis in 1970 with the formation of the Beer Can Collectors of America (BCCA), now the Beer Collectibles Club of America. Now breweriana enthusiasts had a way to interface and to grow their collections. Other beer can and breweriana collector clubs eventually formed, but the BCCA remains the largest and most active of the hobby's organizations.Think about the last time you visited a grocery or beverage store. Have you ever looked at the different brands of beer on the shelves and in the coolers? Have you been beguiled by the variety, graphics, and colors of the packaging? Have you admired the neon and lighted signs that advertise beer at your local watering hole? Or had had a brewery-branded book of matches, napkin, or coaster catch your eye? If you have and you have saved them, then you need to join the BCCA. Check out our other interesting pages for more information about this fascinating hobby.  Next: Learn more about our club
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