What is Beer Can Appreciation Day?
Beer Can Appreciation Day honors the great day in 1935, when beer was first sold in cans.
American Can Company made drinkable canned beer available while Krueger Brewing Company of Richmond, Virginia, sold the first beer in a can, but American Can Company of Richmond, Virginia, made drinkable canned beer available. Krueger took the risk with the American Can Company just weeks before Prohibition was repealed. The hefty steel cans were opened with a church key, weighing in at 4 ounces. The can over the bottle 9-1 was preferred by Loyal Krueger's drinkers.
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