Schmidt's City Club Beer Cone Top Can

Schmidt's City Club Cone Top

The Schmidt's City Club Beer cone top can represents a prominent chapter in the history of the Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Operating from its historic castle-style brewing facility on West Seventh Street, the brewery established City Club as its flagship label to anchor its distribution network across the Upper Midwest.

Jacob Schmidt packaged its leading brew in cone tops manufactured primarily by the Continental Can Company. The City Club brand gained national notoriety during the mid-1930s following the high-profile kidnapping of brewery heir Edward Bremer by the Barker-Karpis gang. During World War II, brewery leadership secured government contracts that enabled Schmidt to supply canned City Club directly to American armed forces stationed overseas.

The can design is centered around the traditional City Club crest set against crisp red and white fields with metallic accents. For breweriana collectors, several variations exist across production runs, distinguished primarily by regulatory and mandatory text. These variations include Internal Revenue Tax Paid statements, differing state-mandated alcohol disclosures, and minor changes in brewery mandatory text. City Club cone tops served as a direct predecessor to the company's later transition into scenic can releases before Schmidt was acquired by Pfeiffer Brewing.