It has come to this: To begin to fulfill my promise to my son that I will TRY to dispose of as much junk stuff as possible, before he has to when I am old(er), feeble and/or dead, I am sadly disposing of my 40 year collection of examples of malted beverage containers that I have saved. (Besides, I long ago ran out of shelf space for displaying them, and 3/4 of them were in boxes stacked in the corner.)

   HOWEVER, I have been photographing them and am 'almost' done. The recycling trucks will no doubt be pleased.
There are somewhere between 850-900, with about 20-25 yet to do.

Here is a link to my Google Drive page.... more to be added soon.

Bill's Beer Collection

The first 25 pics are a dozen at a time, taken with my older camera, which wasn't as good, and the lighting in the storage area required flash, which gave some streaks in places, but 'most' items are recognizable. Some beers were wonderful, some were tolerable, and some were.... other.

   There are some very nice items from the UK, brought to me by friends who came to the FSGW Getaway, and some from various parts of the world that I just happened to find locally. But 60-70% are just US beers... and for the last 20 of the 40 years, I have been totally unable to keep up with even trying to sample much of the wildly expanding craft beers people are producing.....

Comments welcome, as long as they aren't the old "US beers are dishwater" stuff... we now have almost any style that competes favorably with the best from all over the world. NO ONE can 'quite' match some of the Belgian Abbey Ales...but...)