-50 years after they revolutionised beer drinking
takes me back some years this, should bring these ~~~~ers back would save a lot of backwards and forwards to the fridge
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Vintage vessel: the first Party Seven beer can appeared 50 years ago
Never mind the fact they were almost impossible to open - no 1970s party would have been complete without one.
But the Party Seven beer can - a tin receptacle holding seven pints of ale - disappeared in the 1980s.
Now the hunt is on - for an unopened Party Seven can to mark its 50th anniversary.
The Royal Society of Chemistry not only wants a can to celebrate this milestone - it wants to chronicle the scientific advances that led mankind from beer bottle to beer can.
As a result it has been flooded with responses from Party Seven nostalgics, whose memories of nights under the influence of ale with an alarmingly metallic taste are published on its website.
You needed 'a screwdriver and a hammer' to open them, Party Seven aficionado Nick Mullen recalls to The Times. 'And then it was like Mount Vesuvius.
'But it was the standard product that you brought to a party.'
The first beer cans - which were the shape of polish cans - appeared in Virginia in 1935.
Although canning had been around before the 1930s, the Royal Society of Chemistry said there were two major problems hampering canned beer: pressure and corrosion.
The welded seams which held cans shut couldn?t stand the pressure of beer, and perhaps more troubling was that the drink tended to react with the tinplate of cans.
Staple: This beer mat was to encourage customers to take home a Party Seven for later
The Party Seven, when it appeared 25 years later, was, therefore, a great leap forward.
It was brewed by Watney Combe & Reid, a successful London brewery which reached its peak in the 1930s.
The smaller brother Party Four (four pints of beer in a can) had been available for sometime when in 1968 Party Seven was introduced.
As a promotion Watneys sold a Sparklets Beertap with a free voucher for a can of Party Seven for 59s 9d. Watneys Party Seven initially sold for 15s.
Unfortunately, its demise was sealed by the arrival of plastic bottles and ring-pull six-packs.
takes me back some years this, should bring these ~~~~ers back would save a lot of backwards and forwards to the fridge
( spesh for zap ) Vintage vessel: the first Party Seven beer can appeared 50 years ago Never mind the fact they were almost impossible to open - no 1970s party would have been complete without one.
But the Party Seven beer can - a tin receptacle holding seven pints of ale - disappeared in the 1980s.
Now the hunt is on - for an unopened Party Seven can to mark its 50th anniversary.
The Royal Society of Chemistry not only wants a can to celebrate this milestone - it wants to chronicle the scientific advances that led mankind from beer bottle to beer can.
As a result it has been flooded with responses from Party Seven nostalgics, whose memories of nights under the influence of ale with an alarmingly metallic taste are published on its website.
You needed 'a screwdriver and a hammer' to open them, Party Seven aficionado Nick Mullen recalls to The Times. 'And then it was like Mount Vesuvius.
'But it was the standard product that you brought to a party.'
The first beer cans - which were the shape of polish cans - appeared in Virginia in 1935.
Although canning had been around before the 1930s, the Royal Society of Chemistry said there were two major problems hampering canned beer: pressure and corrosion.
The welded seams which held cans shut couldn?t stand the pressure of beer, and perhaps more troubling was that the drink tended to react with the tinplate of cans.
Staple: This beer mat was to encourage customers to take home a Party Seven for laterThe Party Seven, when it appeared 25 years later, was, therefore, a great leap forward.
It was brewed by Watney Combe & Reid, a successful London brewery which reached its peak in the 1930s.
The smaller brother Party Four (four pints of beer in a can) had been available for sometime when in 1968 Party Seven was introduced.
As a promotion Watneys sold a Sparklets Beertap with a free voucher for a can of Party Seven for 59s 9d. Watneys Party Seven initially sold for 15s.
Unfortunately, its demise was sealed by the arrival of plastic bottles and ring-pull six-packs.
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