Keg cooler / tap handles

[fester]

I just scored a keg cooler from my local used appliance guy, bought a 1/2 barrel of Abita amber and should have the CO2 on monday. I had an idea to add a little vintage flair to the deal by scrounging up some tap handles from obscure and or defunct regional breweries like F&S, Gibbons, schmidt's from PA. Genessee, Rhinegold, Knickerbocker, etc. from NY. Blatz, Hamm's, Grain belt etc. I Thought you all might be able to add to the list being as we seem to be pretty spread out. I bid on a Jax tap from Nawlins but the bidding went beyond $75.00 for a 3X3 piece of lucite! Y'all scratch y'all heads and toss out some beer names from days gone by.

Thanks

FEster

 

[58limited]

Well, I don't know a lot of old defunct brands but here are a few that have been around for 100 years or so, you might find vintage tap handles out there:

Shiner
Lone Star
Pearl
Anchor Steam
Iron City

I have a Coleman plastic ice chest that I converted to a beer dispenser. It has a coil of copper inside and a tap mounted to the front side - just fill with ice and hook to a keg and its ready to go, no need for a big trash can full of ice to ice down the keg. It has a 1970s Budweiser tap handle on it, plus I have a 1980s Rolling Rock tap handle to swap out if I wish.

I'm a homebrewer, here is my "kegerator," a 1983 Figidaire that holds five 5 gallon Cornelius kegs:

 

[fester]

beer and brewing

Way cool set up. I have a neighbor the home brews in bottles and we're looking into doing kegs. Just got the cooler so we're still in the exploration stage with the help of a local liquor store that supplies home brewers and wine makers.

 

[goatfarmer]

Some Midwest brands.

 

Atlas

Drewrys

Kamms

Gettelman

Potosi

 Kingsbury

Walters

Rhinelander

 

[polkanut]

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Wausau Brewing Co.-Wausau, WI</span>

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Schoen's Old Lager</span>

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Adel Brau</span>

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Rib Mountain Lager</span>

 

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Mathie-Ruder Brewing Co.-Wausau, WI</span>

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Red Ribbon</span>

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">North Star</span>

 

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Marathon City Brewing Co.-Marathon, WI</span>

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Marathon Superfine</span>

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Wee Willy</span>

 

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Stevens Point Brewery-Stevens Point, WI</span>

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Point Special</span>

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Point Special Bock</span>

 

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Kenny,</span>

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">The Potosi brand has been revived, and they have quite a few beers available.  Check out the link. </span>

 

Potosi Brewery - Potosi Brewing Company

Originally founded in 1852 along the Great River Road and just a stone’s throw from the Mississippi River, the Potosi Brewing Company brewed more than a century’s worth of delicious craft beer before finally bowing to shifting market pressures and emptying its bright tanks for good in 1972...

www.potosibrewery.com

 

[goatfarmer]

Yeah, I'm a member of ABA, and they have a museum at the old brewery. Thanks for the link!

 

[fester]

Great Info !

You all have given me some good ideas to work with. Thanks! I dug the brewery link too. I may have to procure one of their taps. I'll support any independent brewery that isn't making that generic crappy beer like Bud, Miller, Etc. That stuff is nasty! Thanks again and keep those legacey brewery names coming!