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.
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.
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.
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
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.
