This is one habit I have just never fell into:
John Ahrens recalls when he was sucked into beer-can collecting. The 63-year-old suburban Philadelphia man, who was among the more than 800 people attending the 36th annual convention of the Brewery Collectibles Club of America, was a student at Yale University when his classmates began lining a ledge with cans. The CANvention started Wednesday and goes through Saturday. By graduation, Ahrens had 250 cans, and he kept adding to them. The collection eventually grew to include about 30,000 cans...Here is the story on the convention of the 36th annual convention of the Brewery Collectibles Club of America held in Kansas City this week where I learned about John of the 30,000 cans. And if you are going to be any "...Club of American" you had better have a website with a decent history, in this case of showing how the BCCA formed around 1970. Once in the club, you can buy stuff at eBay or even at places like this. The you can even entertain thoughts of joining the splinter schismists of the ABA or the ECBA. No sign of a CBA yet.
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Greg Clow - September 9, 2006 5:32 pm
Actually, there is a Canadian Brewerianist Society. I think they have a convention in Toronto every year. No sign of a website for them, though.
And like you, I've never gotten into that aspect of the beer scene. My wife would probably kill me if I did. She gets frustrated enough by all the full bottles of beer I keep around - imagine if I kept all the empty ones as well? Yikes!
Alan - September 9, 2006 6:06 pm
That pile of beer related stuff is what is giving me pause about entering the world of homebrewing again, too.
Dave Osbaldeston CBS Member #905 - December 16, 2007 8:29 pm
I am pleased to advise that the Canadian Brewerianist Society is alive and well and that I am Member no. 905 of about 1500 active across the country. I brew nothing and drink about the same. But I am a Canadian history freak and to save such history wrt industries upon which many a Canadian small town and city were built to me is somewhat of an honour....and a whole lot of fun!
The CBS has many regional clubs and has been holding an annual convention every year for about the last 30 years in any one of the great existing or historically related brewery cities in our country. A great hobby and let's face it...what a setting...good friends and good beer!