{"id":7134,"date":"2011-03-02T15:10:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T22:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=7134"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:12:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T22:12:04","slug":"vintage-beer-can-western-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=7134","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Beer Can: Western Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=7134\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7139\" title=\"Vintage Beer Can &quot;Western Beer&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/beercan_Western-Beer_unnecessary-umlaut_21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/beercan_Western-Beer_unnecessary-umlaut_21.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/beercan_Western-Beer_unnecessary-umlaut_21-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pulled this pull-top out of the garage to share with you, &#8216;cuz you&#8217;re geeky like that. <strong>Western Beer<\/strong>, not to be confused with <strong>Great Western Beer<\/strong>, was brewed by <strong>Minnesota<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<a title=\"Cold Spring Brewing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coldspringbrewery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cold Spring Brewing<\/a> from about 1969 through 1990 (according to <a title=\"Cold Spring Brewing on Tavern Trove\" href=\"http:\/\/taverntrove.webtenet.com\/breweries\/Cold-Spring-Brewing-Company-Cold-Spring-283.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Tavern Trove<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Anyone know what the Native American-ish \/ ranch-style markings <!--more-->mean?  I&#8217;ll get the hard one out of the way and say <em>CS<\/em> and <em>water symbol<\/em> means <em>Cold Spring<\/em>. How &#8217;bout the others?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7142\" title=\"Western Beer Native American-ish Markings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Western-Beer_native-american-markings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Western-Beer_native-american-markings.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Western-Beer_native-american-markings-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what their even earlier, bottle labels looked like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taverntrove.com\/items\/Western-Beer-Labels-Cold-Spring-Brewing-Company_31528.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7140\" title=\"Visit Tavern Trove for more Western Beer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Western-Beer-Labels-Cold-Spring-Brewing-Company_31528-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Western-Beer-Labels-Cold-Spring-Brewing-Company_31528-1.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Western-Beer-Labels-Cold-Spring-Brewing-Company_31528-1-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2022 \u2022 \u00a0 \u2022 \u2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Found: Vintage Beer Cans In Wall Of Lower Haight Apt.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=2048\">Found: Vintage Beer Cans In Wall Of Lower Haight Apt.<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Beer: Wild Hops in Abandoned Miner Cabin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=2250\">Beer: Wild Hops in Abandoned Miner Cabin<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Happy Day: Vintage Acme Beer Can\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=6843\">Happy Day: Vintage Acme Beer Can<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Beer Can: Burgermeister Uncut Tin Sheet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=1954\">Beer Can: Burgermeister Uncut Tin Sheet<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Cool: Fraternal Fist Bump, Circa 1890s\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=5681\">Cool: Fraternal Fist Bump, Circa 1890s<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Soundtrack: International Beer Day 08.05.10\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=5185\">Soundtrack: International Beer Day 08.05.10<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulled this pull-top out of the garage to share with you, &#8216;cuz you&#8217;re geeky like that. Western Beer, not to be confused with Great Western Beer, was brewed by Minnesota&#8216;s\u00a0Cold Spring Brewing from about 1969 through 1990 (according to Tavern Trove). Anyone know what the Native American-ish \/ ranch-style markings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[779,2907,2908,220,2906],"class_list":["post-7134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","tag-beer-can","tag-cold-spring-brewing","tag-minnesota","tag-vintage","tag-western-beer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7149,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134\/revisions\/7149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}