When British beer cans burst into life at auction
In the long history of beer, the can is a relative newcomer. The first canned beer came with the end of Prohibition in the US – the shiny new light-weight packaging used by Krueger’s in Richmond, Virgina, to market a pasteurised beverage from January 1935.
British ales were more problematic. Reacting with tin in a cold climate, the result was a metallic…