Peter Doelger

[ROBBYBOBBY64]

I just cleaned up this Peter Doelger Brewing Co. Inc. Of New York. Base embossed with the brewery name and the number 28. Maybe the year or mold number. Shoulder is embossed with P.D. monogram. Nice honey amber colored glass. Here is a link to some info on the company.
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Peter Doelger Beer: November 2007 Can of the Month

 

[hemihampton]

The Cans are tough cans, especially the Ale & tougher yet is the Bock, you need to dig some of those. LEON.

 

[ROBBYBOBBY64]

The tray is a photo I found online.
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[Cola-Coca]

Really nice color!

 

[ROBBYBOBBY64]

The Cans are tough cans, especially the Ale & tougher yet is the Bock, you need to dig some of those. LEON.

If I ever do, you'll be the first to know.
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[UnderMiner]

I remember reading of Peter Doelger and his "Temperance Beer". He tried to cozy up to the prohibitionists by suggesting his "low" alcohol-content beer was a great comprise and for women to get their men off hard liquor by giving them PD beer instead. Apparently it worked as he made a ton of buisness. He was so successful in fact that organized crime came after him trying to extort protection money from him. He refused. Then one day shortly after he found a massive pipe bomb in his house with the fuse burnt out. Police never figured out if the bomb was intended to kill Doelger or simply to terrorize him as they weren't sure if the fuse had gone out by mistake or was intentionally made to look like it had been lit without ever having intended to explode the bomb. My theory is the fuse went out by mistake and the people Doelger had dealt with really were trying to kill him.

The 28 is probably the year 1928 on your bottle as it looks like a more modern PD bottle. PD continued brewing low-alcohol content beer through prohibition until 1928 so your's is likely the last year of production. I have an older bottle that is more primitive and is stamped with a 12, found it in a dump full of artifacts from 1912 including newspapers with the date 1912 writen on them, so that lead me to believe the PD bottle's number 12 was the year.

 

[ROBBYBOBBY64]

I remember reading of Peter Doelger and his "Temperance Beer". He tried to cozy up to the prohibitionists by suggesting his "low" alcohol-content beer was a great comprise and for women to get their men off hard liquor by giving them PD beer instead. Apparently it worked as he made a ton of buisness. He was so successful in fact that organized crime came after him trying to extort protection money from him. He refused. Then one day shortly after he found a massive pipe bomb in his house with the fuse burnt out. Police never figured out if the bomb was intended to kill Doelger or simply to terrorize him as they weren't sure if the fuse had gone out by mistake or was intentionally made to look like it had been lit without ever having intended to explode the bomb. My theory is the fuse went out by mistake and the people Doelger had dealt with really were trying to kill him.

The 28 is probably the year 1928 on your bottle as it looks like a more modern PD bottle. PD continued brewing low-alcohol content beer through prohibition until 1928 so your's is likely the last year of production. I have an older bottle that is more primitive and is stamped with a 12, found it in a dump full of artifacts from 1912 including newspapers with the date 1912 writen on them, so that lead me to believe the PD bottle's number 12 was the year.
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Later 1940's paper label.
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