Dear, Western beer collector......

[NorCalBottleHunter]

So, i recently have been on this western beer kick, and i always seem to have that two or three boxes of bottles that i have in some odd place, around the house, that i forget i have. While going through one of them this morning i find this beer and go to look it up in a newly aquired book,"here's to beers", and i cant seem to find it! Now, it is acid etched, and I am not seeing anything in there covering this type of embossing, nor is there anything in the reading explaining why or why not... so i just wanted to throw this little mystery out on the forum with hope that someone can shed some light on the subject? here it is, Front: John Wielands, extra pale. Back: cal bottling co. Any info would be awesome!

full shot

front

back

the lip

 

[sandchip]

Did you find that yourself? How tall is it?

 

[NorCalBottleHunter]

i did find it, out at a beach here in the bay. its a pint size, like the average beer. when i found it I actually thought it was unembossed, but once it dried i could see the acid etch

 

[Lordbud]

out at a beach here in the bay.

Am I misremembering or were you gonna pick up all the "non-mint" SF/Oakland/Alameda druggists from that beach and let me know what you found?[] I'm interested in any variants or "unlisted" druggists from them towns I don't have even if they are chipped, cracked, or otherwise unmint...[8D] I've emailed my digging buddy who has the Here's To Beers revised edition to check on your Wielands which is from SF, bottle very likely blown in Germany.

 

[CALDIGR2]

That one looks like a mineral water that was etched and used by Wieland. We found a quart etched the same in Woodland a few months ago, and I have also picked them up from around Bair Island, out in the SF Bay.

 

[NorCalBottleHunter]

No, no, you are not misremembering, and i haven't forgot, i found the beer there two years ago and its been too cold and no really good tides in a while, April/May is when the monster minus tides come back, and there are going to be some good ones!!!! my goal this year is to find a few these beautiful things, but whole, i think I'd be good with about 5 of the 9+ inchers. the little guys seem to be the only ones that survive. ooops, this was a beer post....

 

[NorCalBottleHunter]

I do have another one of these Wielands, with the same etching, same type of bottle/mold/lip, but its aqua and its a quart