Trophy Beer Cone Top Can

Birk Bros. Trophy Beer Cone Top

The Trophy Beer cone top can was packaged for the Birk Bros. Brewing Company of Chicago, Illinois. Originating from the brewery's plant on Chicago's North Side, Trophy was marketed as one of the company's flagship packaged products.

Manufactured by the Continental Can Company, this high-profile container features bold, stylized lettering set against a clean backdrop with an illustrative trophy cup emblem positioned prominently on the label face. The bold graphic composition was designed for high visibility on retail shelves and tavern backbars throughout the Midwest.

Several variations are documented among collectors due to shifting regulatory mandates during its run. Examples exist with the federal Internal Revenue Tax Paid (IRTP) marking, alongside later examples produced after the tax-paid labeling requirement was repealed. Additional variations feature state-specific alcohol content designations, such as "Strong," while other variants carry no alcohol statement at all.

Following the eventual closure of the Birk Bros. facility, the Trophy label was discontinued, leaving this can as a notable artifact of Chicago's post-Prohibition industrial brewing era.