Breweriana

Breweriana.com is the oldest retail beer can and brewery advertising web site on the internet. In about 1976, a friend of mine, Mike Flask, introduced me to beer can collecting. Mike's father, Frank, worked for the C. Schmidt & Sons brewery in Cleveland. Each time a new can was introduced at the brewery, Frank would take one of the cans home for Mi... ke. Back then, I acquired cans by walking along the road and looking for them, digging around old dumps, trading with other kids in the neighborhood, and buying from older collectors/dealers at flea markets. Around 1995, I began buying and selling cans on the internet (which, by the way, is a heck of a lot more efficient than walking along miles of roadsides and rummaging through flea markets and garage sales). When I formally launched the Breweriana.com website in 1996, there was only one other site of its kind on the internet. That site went out of business many years ago. Today, there are many web sites devoted to beer cans and old beer advertising. In 1997, I left the practice of law to devote myself full-time to Breweriana.com. Breweriana.com has remained my sole occupation since. In 2000, Breweriana.com opened its brick and mortar retail store in Brimfield, Massachusetts. It is a 5,000 square feet facility with 4 rooms filled with beer cans and breweriana. Please see the "Brick and Mortar" section of "About Us" for more information about our off-line store.Read More