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Beer from the Hindenburg

11/12/09, by Kate Hopkins Email 2887 views • Categories: Beer, Food History

Scott sent the following to me, and it most certainly caught my interest:

Beer Bottle from Hindenburg Disaster, World's Most Expensive
Singed Bottle of Lowenbrau Recovered From Historic Inferno Could Fetch $8,000
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN

A singed bottle of beer recovered from the ashes of the Hindenburg disaster is expected to fetch $4,000 to $8,000 at auction this weekend -- the highest price ever for a bottle of beer.

Two things of note.

1) It's interesting, at least to me, to compare a historic bottle of whiskey against a historic bottle of beer. Certain bottles of whiskey can get $50,000 at an auction. Beer gets about 1/10th of that. That puts all of those beer can collections into some sort of perspective.

2) As I told Scott in an e-mail yesterday, Lowenbrau should absolutely put this in a commercial of some sort. "Lowenbrau: A beer so bold, even the fiery wreckage of the Hindenburg couldn't destroy it".

Or would that be in bad taste?

Thanks Scott!


Comments, Pingbacks:

Comment from: Scott [Visitor] Email · http://onefoodguy.blogspot.com
Well the spokesperson for the auction house does say that if one cracked open that old bottle of Lowenbrau it would "taste putrid".

This makes me reconsider how long to hold onto the imperial stouts I have aging in my basement!
PermalinkPermalink 11/12/09 @ 08:57
Comment from: Craig [Visitor] Email
I think there are two differences between this beer and an old bottle of whiskey.

The first is that the whiskey, unless the seal is broken, is substantially the same as it was when bottled. Drinking it can give one a glimpse into the way things used to be done. The beer, though, is strictly a collectible object. It's only good for looking, not drinking.

The second is that the whisky community is much more developed. That's probably due to the fact that one can actually drink older whisky bottlings, so one can start with something bottled in the fifties and get carried away from there.

And, OK, the third is that there are over ten times as many drinks in a bottle of whiskey as there are in in a single beer.

PermalinkPermalink 11/15/09 @ 04:07
The history beyond the costly beer bottle is so intriguing. The contents might be more expensive though.
PermalinkPermalink 01/28/10 @ 22:41

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