Post by xxxxxCanManxxxxx on Sept 1, 2011 9:04:01 GMT -5
The USA has some weird holidays on every day of the year. I think most are just made up and somehow accepted by the general public. One official master list of holidays can be found a popular greeting card company's website:
www.theultimateholidaysite.com/
Note: This site above was working this morning, but at the time of this posting, I am getting a "504 Gateway Time-out nginx/0.8.53" error. If you get this, try it again later.
I found 2 holidays in particular that may be of interest to those of us who love beverage cans:
January 24 - Beer Can Appreciation Day ;D
September 27 - Crush a Can Day
Here we are with two complete extremes. A day to honor cans and a day to destroy cans. I am of the opinion that we need to start a Beverage Can Appreciation Day.
My proposal
April 16 - International Beverage Can Appreciation Day
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Image from: keglined.com
Update - Complete Patent Documentation:[/color] bit.ly/qWlEzH
Why that date?
It is the date that American Can Company inventor, Charles Stollberg, filed for a patent for his sturdy tin can
Early Can History
I have found a variety of dates for the history 1st beverage container. Some of it is contradictory:
1909 - The American Can Company (a.k.a. ACCO) researches canning beer at the request of Leopold Schmidt, and finds contemporary canning methods far too weak to withstand the range of internal pressures created during beer pasteurization. (keglined.com)
1909 - The origins of the beer can can be traced back to 1909, when a brewery in the USA approached American Can Co to see if it could supply cans for the packaging of beer. It could not its attempts to produce a can were unsuccessful. (beercannews.com)
April 16, 1925 - ACCO inventor Charles Stollberg has figured out how to make a sufficiently sturdy tin can, and files for a patent on his design. (keglined.com)
April 19, 1927 - Charles Stollberg's patent is granted. The world has its first bona fide beer can blueprint. (keglined.com)
1931 - In 1931, anticipating the end of Prohibition, American Can again began to experiment with canned beer (beercannews.com)
November 1933 - All that was needed was a brewer willing to take the pioneering plunge. The Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company of Newark, NJ signed on the dotted line in November 1933. (bcca.com)
1933 - After two years of research, American Can had overcome the problems of pressure and had developed a coating for the inside of the can to stop the beer reacting with the tinplate. The company now had to sell the idea to the breweries...A test run of 2,000 cans was produced in 1933 [by the Gottfried Krueger Brewery of Newark, New Jersey.] (beercannews.com)
September 25, 1934 - American Can Company (gono.com)
January 24, 1935 - It was not until Jan 24, 1935, that the first beer cans went on sale to the general public when Krueger’s Finest Beer went on sale in Richmond, Virginia. (beercannews.com)
1940 - As early as 1940, can manufacturers began to explore adapting cans to package carbonated soft drinks. (cancentral.com)
1957 - The first aluminum cans used (inventors.about.com)
1958 - The Adolph Coors Company manufactured the first aluminum beer can in 1958 (enotes.com)
Maybe if we agree on a day of the year and start posting it on the web in forums, etc., then the UltimateHolidaySite.com (Hallmark) will recognize it as a real holiday?? What do you think?
www.theultimateholidaysite.com/
Note: This site above was working this morning, but at the time of this posting, I am getting a "504 Gateway Time-out nginx/0.8.53" error. If you get this, try it again later.
I found 2 holidays in particular that may be of interest to those of us who love beverage cans:
January 24 - Beer Can Appreciation Day ;D
September 27 - Crush a Can Day
Here we are with two complete extremes. A day to honor cans and a day to destroy cans. I am of the opinion that we need to start a Beverage Can Appreciation Day.
My proposal
April 16 - International Beverage Can Appreciation Day
Image from: keglined.com
Update - Complete Patent Documentation:[/color] bit.ly/qWlEzH
Why that date?
It is the date that American Can Company inventor, Charles Stollberg, filed for a patent for his sturdy tin can
Early Can History
I have found a variety of dates for the history 1st beverage container. Some of it is contradictory:
1909 - The American Can Company (a.k.a. ACCO) researches canning beer at the request of Leopold Schmidt, and finds contemporary canning methods far too weak to withstand the range of internal pressures created during beer pasteurization. (keglined.com)
1909 - The origins of the beer can can be traced back to 1909, when a brewery in the USA approached American Can Co to see if it could supply cans for the packaging of beer. It could not its attempts to produce a can were unsuccessful. (beercannews.com)
April 16, 1925 - ACCO inventor Charles Stollberg has figured out how to make a sufficiently sturdy tin can, and files for a patent on his design. (keglined.com)
April 19, 1927 - Charles Stollberg's patent is granted. The world has its first bona fide beer can blueprint. (keglined.com)
1931 - In 1931, anticipating the end of Prohibition, American Can again began to experiment with canned beer (beercannews.com)
November 1933 - All that was needed was a brewer willing to take the pioneering plunge. The Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company of Newark, NJ signed on the dotted line in November 1933. (bcca.com)
1933 - After two years of research, American Can had overcome the problems of pressure and had developed a coating for the inside of the can to stop the beer reacting with the tinplate. The company now had to sell the idea to the breweries...A test run of 2,000 cans was produced in 1933 [by the Gottfried Krueger Brewery of Newark, New Jersey.] (beercannews.com)
September 25, 1934 - American Can Company (gono.com)
January 24, 1935 - It was not until Jan 24, 1935, that the first beer cans went on sale to the general public when Krueger’s Finest Beer went on sale in Richmond, Virginia. (beercannews.com)
1940 - As early as 1940, can manufacturers began to explore adapting cans to package carbonated soft drinks. (cancentral.com)
1957 - The first aluminum cans used (inventors.about.com)
1958 - The Adolph Coors Company manufactured the first aluminum beer can in 1958 (enotes.com)
Maybe if we agree on a day of the year and start posting it on the web in forums, etc., then the UltimateHolidaySite.com (Hallmark) will recognize it as a real holiday?? What do you think?
