Old Beer Cans

Oldest beer can? A beer can prototype made as early as 1931-32 for Krueger Brewing Co. of Newark, N.J., may be the country’s first beer can. Prohibition was still in effect then, but some companies had experimented with canning “near beer” as early as 1928. Krueger tested cans for 3.2 beer in 1933, the year Prohibition ended, and started selling regular beer in cans in 1935. The prototype can sold online in 2012 for $3,800. (Read more in Beer Cans & Brewery Collectibles magazine, April/May 2013.) Can anyone add more information about the history of canned beer? Do any known cans predate 1931?