{"id":47036,"date":"2025-02-28T10:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T14:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebeertimes.com\/?p=47036"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:26:14","slug":"history-of-the-first-beer-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebeertimes.com\/en\/history-of-the-first-beer-can\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of the First Beer Can, Born on January 24, 1935"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was January 24, 1935, when the first canned beer went on sale after decades of experiments and more than a decade of Prohibition in the United States<\/a>. The Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company brought its long-awaited product to market in Richmond, Virginia.<\/p>\n

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To begin with, Gottfried Krueger was a German immigrant living in Newark, New Jersey, who had arrived from Germany in 1853 and began working in Newark at the Adams & Laible brewery, which had been established on Belmont Avenue in 1851.<\/p>\n\n

Gottfried Krueger and the American Lager<\/h2>\n

In the years that followed, Krueger learned the trade of master brewer<\/a> producing Ale, Porter and Stout \u2014 the classic beer styles<\/a> of the era. But the growing wave of European immigration was demanding a lighter, German-style beer.<\/p>\n

This is how German immigrants began producing American-style lager<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A few years later, by 1865, Krueger already owned his own brewery. Lager triumphed and became the national drink.<\/p>\n

Production went from 750,000 barrels in 1850 to 39 million in 1900. Brewery buildings now took on a Victorian style to emphasize the grandeur of German-American brewers.<\/p>\n