Bottle with Hops Etching (Newbie)

[frankjeff]

Hey all,

I wanted to see if anyone had some info about this bottle. It was given to me from my grandpa who lives in Panama, so that is where it was found. I couldn't find anything like this bottle on the on this or other sites, one that has etchings of hops on the bottle.

https://plus.google.com/photos/117632660994443108134/albums/5743487674533501409

Thanks for taking a look.

--jeff

 

[surfaceone]

Hello Jeff,

Welcome to the A-BN, and thanks for bringing this nicely etched beer bottle.

Here's a search of previous Hop etched bottles.

It has a British look to my eyes, but that's just a guess. Are there no markings?

 

[epackage]

There are also crown tops with similar etching in the same color, I have one around here somewhere, I'll see if I can find the pics

 

[epackage]

Found it, as you can see the base is kicked up and it's an applied lip....I think they held a kind of Weiss Beer with a good amount of yeast which is why the kickup on the base, to keep the yeast settled along the bottom when pouring...

 

[RICKJJ59W]

We dug a number of these in a dump once.

 

[cacarpetbagger]

Not sure what this bottle held but it sure got around. Panama the East coast and this one from California.

 

[sloughduck]

Hey hops is a main ingrediant of beer,so I say beer or ale

 

[David Fertig]

The crown tops are semi-common around cntral PA. When you dig them, there are usually more then one. Think we got about 20-30 out of a pit once.