Krueger Finest Beer Cone Top Can

Krueger Finest Beer: A Cone Top Can

This page details the Krueger Finest Beer cone top can produced by the G. Krueger Brewing Company of Wilmington, Delaware. The G. Krueger Brewing Company's history is deeply intertwined with the innovation of canned beer. While they weren't the first to experiment with canned beer (that honor likely belongs to others, with tests done even before Prohibition), they are widely recognized for being the first to commercially market canned beer, starting with Krueger's Finest Beer and Krueger's Cream Ale in 1935. This bold move helped usher in a new era for the beer industry. The cone top can design, with its distinctive top, offered a practical solution, allowing smaller breweries to utilize existing bottling line equipment to fill and seal the cans. This design proved popular for many years among a variety of brewers. This particular can, showcasing the Krueger Finest Beer brand, represents a significant piece of brewing history, marking a pivotal time when the landscape of beer packaging changed forever. Variations in can design, size and manufacturing details existed across the Krueger's production run; collectors can find many examples to add to their collection.