Acme Beer Flat Top Can

Los Angeles Acme Beer Flat Top

Produced by the Acme Brewing Company at its Southern California plant in Los Angeles, this steel flat top can stands as a celebrated artifact of West Coast brewing history. Following the repeal of Prohibition, Acme rose to prominence as a dominant regional power, supplying canned beer across California and neighboring states.

Manufactured in partnership with the Pacific Can Company, Acme's cans frequently bore proprietary container trademarks such as "Keglet," "Kan-Kegs," or references to Pacific Can's "Marvel-Lined" process. Acme and Pacific Can notably promoted the packaging through a major consumer slogan contest that awarded new automobiles to participants who submitted the best slogans praising the protective can lining.

The visual design prominently features Acme’s iconic "Stein Girl" artwork—an illustration of a waitress carrying foaming steins—adapted from early company advertising. Variations exist among runs produced at the Los Angeles facility, displaying differences between red-accented and black-accented graphic elements, as well as adjustments in mandatory brewery text, Los Angeles and Vernon plant designations, and federal tax markings.

Representing the peak era of regional West Coast brewing, the Los Angeles Acme flat top remains a quintessential fixture among mid-century breweriana collectors.