The First: Canned Beer

Before Prohibition, Americans toted beer home from local watering holes in small, galvanized pails called growlers. But in January 1935, 13 months after the teetotaling experiment was repealed, beer drinkers in Richmond, Va., ushered in a new era of portable potables when they snapped up the first canned beer sold in the U.S. The American …

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