Beverwyck Famous Beer Cone Top Can

Beverwyck Famous Beer Cone Top

The Beverwyck Famous Beer cone top is a classic mid-century package produced for Beverwyck Breweries, Inc. of Albany, New York. Rooted in an Albany brewing legacy established by Michael N. Nolan—a former mayor of Albany and United States Congressman—the Beverwyck brewery was one of the few regional operations to survive Prohibition and return to large-scale production.

Manufactured by the Continental Can Company under their "Cap-Sealed" container line, Beverwyck was among the early regional breweries to adopt cone top packaging. The Famous Beer label design highlights the prominent Beverwyck script and traditional crest graphics.

For collectors of East Coast breweriana, this can represents an important era of New York brewing history prior to the facility's acquisition by the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company. Variations of this can exist among collections, featuring differences in profile height, spout ribbing, bottom lid construction, and mandatory tax-paid statements such as the Internal Revenue Tax Paid (IRTP) designation.