Tell me about your alcohol memorabilia.

I collect alcohol memorabilia, doesn’t really matter if it’s my brand or not, I just like alcohol related collectables. My prime examples are:

A large wooden Guinness sign that’s just the bottle logo
A McEwans metal sign, framed to make it nicer in the family room
A light up Old Style wall hanger from the early 70’s that has edges that cast light like a diamond kind of rainbow

and…A giant Newcastle Brown Ale mirror. I also have several Jim Beam decanters from back when they used to do such things, one is a 1932 Deusenburg roadster and a few other of the cars. I have Sandman Port salt and pepper shakers, a huge Fleischmann’s Gin light up bottle and a metric ton of other stuff I won’t go on and on about.

Tell me about what you have in your collection.

I have a ceramic (now empty) Soju bottle I got while I was stationed in Korea. I also have a Dale Earnhart Jr Budweiser bottle (still full) as well as a Rusty Wallace Miller Genuine Draft beer can (also still full). Yeah, Redneck all the way.

Sgt Schwartz

I have a bottle opener with the logo for Molson Festival lager beer on the handle, and the Molson name pressed into the metal. Somewhere in a box, I may also have one for Old Vienna beer, too.

Not much; a couple of beer glasses.

In the last couple of years, I’ve become interested in collecting shot glasses, and look for new and interesting ones where ever I go. Unlike the beer glasses, that’s a working collection. I try to have a drink out of each new one within a day or two.

Yes, same here. Some beer and shot glasses, usually from a state or country I’ve been to. Many from Hard Rock Cafes and Planet Hollywoods.

Oh, and a few T-shirts, plus a Kilkenny jersey-type shirt I won last week at last Thursday night’s pub quiz at The Pickled Liver here in Bangkok (yes, that’s the pub’s actual name).

A while ago, I started trophy casing my vodka bottles. I didn’t drink in college so I never had the chance to do it then. However there is a prime difference between doing it now and doing in a dorm. Walking into a dorm and you’ll see bottles of Fleishmans, Bacardi, Jose Cuervo and the like. Since I didn’t want my house/bar to look like a dorm I kept bottles from higher end stuff.
On my wall I have
3 bottles of Ketel One (375, 750, 1.5)
Youri Dolgoruki (Does anyone know where I can get a bottle with the Russian writing?)
Hangar 1
Chopin
Jewel Of Russia Classic
44 North
and Persophone

Nothing but my many drunken adventures. Finest memorybilia of all :slight_smile:

I had a couple of neon signs, but sold them when I left the States. I still have, in storage somewhere, a Budvar mug I purchased in Prague, a 1-liter Lowenbrau mug I purchased in Munich, and a mug I stole* from a pub I used to patronize in Vienna.

  • I only sort of stole it. Some friends and I had been drinking there, and when we got up to go, I realized they had filled the sleeves of my coat with empty beer mugs. Not knowing how to handle this, and being too intoxicated to think on my feet, I just quickly walked out of the pub, coat in hand.

I have over 100 various NASCAR diecast with beer and spirits sponsors along with a bunch of hats and t-shirts. I also have a neon sign for Fat Tire beer I picked up real cheap at a garage sale but it is going to be listed on Ebay soon. I don’t know if growler jugs are considered collectible and I do use them, I have one from Red Hook and one Butt Face Ale.

I have a few “retro” shakers that I use (not on a daily basis, however). Also a few assorted shot glasses picked up on my travels (probably all made in China), and various wine tools. Not memorabilia, but I bought a commercial wine rack last year and alternate between attempting to fill and empty it every chance I get.

Good lord, the list is endless. 10 years of running brewing contests gives one a large amount of…stuff. Dozens upon dozens of bottle openers, corkscrews and other garp like that, more logoed pint glasses than you can imagine, a rather large Guinness mirror, an equally large Harp mirror, a Johnny Walker mirror, matchbooks and beer mats from any place I’ve been that had them, t-shirts galore, and 253 ribbons won in homebrew competition. Oh, and a pair of paper-thin Pilsner Urquell glasses my cousin brought me from the brewery.

I collected matchbook covers from bars that had their names or logos on them. I had a couple hundred and put some under a glass table for display. When I got married my wife threw them away. They were a conversation and ice breaker.

That would have been a deal breaker for me!

My enlarged liver.

Not much space for memorabilia, but I do have the last four Anchor Christmas Ale bottles, as well as growlers from Speakeasy, Russian River, Magnolia, and Beach Chalet. I tend to save coasters, especially while traveling. I do have a budding collection of BeerAdvocate Magazines, Celebrator, and the Modern Drunkard’s Guide to Drinking in the 21st Century, which is many magnitudes funnier than the magzine.