Brewing has been around for 8,000 years, and Americans have been brewing beer since 1584, but the beer can is a recent invention. On Jan. 24, 1935, 125 years after the first tin-plate can was patented in England, the American Can Company and the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company of New Jersey put out the world's first canned beer, Krueger Cream Ale. Since then, beer cans have been manufactured in all shapes, styles, sizes, and trademarks. Beer has been sold in at least 13 sizes, from 7-oz. to...
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