Duquesne Can-o-beer Beer Cone Top Can

Duquesne Can-o-beer Cone Top

The Duquesne Can-o-beer cone top can was produced by the Duquesne Brewing Company at its Plant #2 facility in Stowe Township, Pennsylvania. Following the repeal of Prohibition, Duquesne rapidly expanded its regional presence beyond its primary South Side Pittsburgh brewery by operating satellite locations, including the Stowe Township plant near McKees Rocks.

Manufactured with the Continental Can Company Cap-Sealed design, the can showcases bold typography and features the brewery's long-running promotional slogan, "The Finest Beer in Town". The container highlights a transformative period in American industrial packaging when regional brewers relied on cone top designs that could run seamlessly on existing bottling lines without necessitating costly retrofits.

Known variations of the Duquesne Can-o-beer exist, showing slight differences in profile heights, legal text, and mandatory tax statements. In addition to commercial civilian releases, the Stowe Township facility produced olive drab versions of this can during World War II to supply armed forces overseas under tax-exempt status. Cans explicitly marked with the Stowe Township Plant #2 designation remain noteworthy artifacts of mid-century Western Pennsylvania industrial brewing history.