Found an old 6 pack...

[3vXT]

Does anyone know how old they are? I think they stopped making it in 1992 but when did they stop selling them with the dolphin killer plastic ring things?
What should i do with them? Are they worth anything?

[BeStRaFe]

Originally Posted by ken2903

Does anyone know how old they are? I think they stopped making it in 1992 but when did they stop selling them with the dolphin killer plastic ring things?
What should i do with them? Are they worth anything?

ebay

[FORD3V]

Drink them mate............

You can still get several tinnies with the plastic ring holder's.

Wouldnt have a clue how old they would be though,1980's??????

[Riksta]

I just wanna know who buys beer then forgets its there, and lets it get that old!!!

God knows beer doesn't last more than a week in my place!

[mcnews]

Feck, thought by the headline you had found an old Sixpack Charger ! I got all excited. What a let down, LOL.

BY the way, if you ever do come across a sixpack charger I have a list of every one ever built with body number, engine number, colour, option codes, where sold etc. etc. etc. So can check authenticity for you.

[Peuty]

Originally Posted by ken2903

What should i do with them?

Mate stick em in the fridge and drink the suckers!*


*May taste like toejam however

[Scott]

Wash em up and poke them in the back of your cupboard. They may never be worth much but as time goes on they'll become a cool thing to have.

[3vXT]

i drank one from the same carton a while back (maybe 13 or 14 years ago) and it tasted rotten, but i was about 10 or 11yo then and i thought all beers tasted like that. I think it was pretty old then... i'm thinking late 80's maybe, i cant find any sort of used bye date.

I should point out i found them in my dad's shed, he forgot they were there, doesn't drink much.

[uranium_death]

I have a tin of Cambell's soup that I think may be from the 60s or 70s. Plain white label with only a red...plus a tiny bit of yellow. Also black. Very plain.

I have saved it and despite the contents probably still being fine, I would rather keep the tin as a collectors item.

[3vXT]

Originally Posted by uranium_death

I have saved it and despite the contents probably still being fine, I would rather keep the tin as a collectors item.

Yeah these have more novelty value than i would get from drinking them.

[Ringo]

Collectors item now...it would taste fairly bad.

being stored in a shed with no insulation and having been through 15 summers of 30+ temps it would have gone off a looooong time ago.

Surprised they haven't bulged.

As an aside my Father-in-law has an empty stubbie of Richmond Lager which aparently was discontinued back in the late 70's. Big blue & black label with zero effort in terms of artwork or design...goes well with late 70's moustache he's still got too!

[3vXT]

^^^ nope, some numbers stamped on the bottom but no dates or anything.

They would have to be 1992 or older as tooheys draft was replaced by new then (i think), but i remember these cans had been sitting in the shed for a few years in 92 or 93.

Originally Posted by Ringo

Surprised they haven't bulged.
!

The loose one has at the bottom. Where the base is usually concave it has popped out. The rest seem ok though.

[AussieJason]

Isn't there some show on ABC where you can ask how much things are worth ? Maybe contact them about it.

I have a very old tin of genuine Ford car polish, wonder if that is worth anything?

[Unco]

yep. beer usually has around a 1 year shelf life. i would not drink it if i were you.

[King Nothing]

We had a couple of cans of old milwake, some crappy american stuff. Dad and a mate bought a case back in 93, and drank most of it. The last 2 cans sat in the fridge, moved with us 5 times, until my brothers 18th a couple of years ago. Some brainiac decided to actually drank one! And wasnt ill!

We still have the other one, sitting in the beer fridge!

[Sourbastard]

Originally Posted by Unco

yep. beer usually has around a 1 year shelf life. i would not drink it if i were you.

ive had home brew last for 5 years in glass that were fine to drink. Also had 3 year old coopers emerge from the shed to be consumed without ill effect.

Shelf life on alcoholic products is mostly myth.

[FASTXR]

Tooheys changed the name from Draught to New back in 1998, so you're looking at beer thats probably 10 years old or more. The ideal "best by" date is generally 3 months or so after brewing.

[Unco]

Originally Posted by sourbastard

ive had home brew last for 5 years in glass that were fine to drink. Also had 3 year old coopers emerge from the shed to be consumed without ill effect.

Shelf life on alcoholic products is mostly myth.

i'm not one to turn to the intraweb for the ultimate truth, but there are a lot of websites that disagree with your statement above... beer does in fact have limited shelf life. your home brew has most likely gone through a different preparation process than packaged beer and therefore it is meant to stay bottled for longer. packaged beer is meant to be drunk as fresh as possible for the best taste. the bulge on one of the cans in question is proof of the effects of time on packaged beer.

but apart from websites, i have personally tasted beer from a couple of cartons whose only fault was that they had been sitting around for a couple of years... i had to throw it all out as it tasted like crap.

[SunDrifter]

Originally Posted by Unco

i'm not one to turn to the intraweb for the ultimate truth, but there are a lot of websites that disagree with your statement above... beer does in fact have limited shelf life. your home brew has most likely gone through a different preparation process than packaged beer and therefore it is meant to stay bottled for longer. packaged beer is meant to be drunk as fresh as possible for the best taste. the bulge on one of the cans in question is proof of the effects of time on packaged beer.

but apart from websites, i have personally tasted beer from a couple of cartons whose only fault was that they had been sitting around for a couple of years... i had to throw it all out as it tasted like crap.

Not arguing or anything, but my brother had a carton of XXXX gold (stubbies) sit in his cupboard for 18months before he chucked them in the fridge. He actually gave me one as a joke because he figured they would be no good, but they turned out to be the best XXXX i've ever had.

(the rest were drank very quickly after that!)

[BigAL_250]

Does it have a use by date?, that'll tell you how old

[[Tonko]]

haha, thats awesome.
I found a steel sealed can of fosters in the old mans shed, was still in a paper bag too...
When did they get out of steel cans?

[recoil]

I have another old shed find. I don't really know much about it, maybe someone from W.A does. I have been told if i was to drink it now, there is no way it could taste any worse than when it was new.

[Green X]

Originally Posted by recoil

I have another old shed find. I don't really know much about it, maybe someone from W.A does. I have been told if i was to drink it now, there is no way it could taste any worse than when it was new.

mate!!!!

The only people who say stuff like that are those Import beer sipping types who don't Appreciate a fine drop of Export quality WA Beer.

You see drinking export or "the Sport" as we also call it isn't about the taste or how many awards it has won. It's about the Image, the Bush heritage, How quickly it gets you ****ed and the hangover it leaves you with the next morning.

to truly understand the Greatness of this beer, you need to spend time in solid WA outback towns Plases like Fitzroy Crossing, Halls Creek, Newman, Kalgoorlie and so on, cause it's not until you roll into Coral Bay after a long day behind the wheel smash back a carton of export wile looking at the ocean , then wile eating you Pie for breakfast the flowing morning with the world worst hangover and wondering WTF happened last night have you truly Lived and Experienced EXPORT in all it glory LOL

Cheers.

[Blue Oval Mopar Man]

Originally Posted by Green X

cause it's not until you roll into Coral Bay after a long day behind the wheel smash back a carton of export wile looking at the ocean , then wile eating you Pie for breakfast the flowing morning with the world worst hangover and wondering WTF happened last night have you truly Lived and Experienced EXPORT in all it glory LOL

Cheers.

Mate, I have done exactly that a few times ,except I drink Bundy . Coral Bay is a great place to spend a couple of laid back weeks !

[Walt Kowalski]

Originally Posted by ken2903

Does anyone know how old they are? I think they stopped making it in 1992 but when did they stop selling them with the dolphin killer plastic ring things?
What should i do with them? Are they worth anything?

Man I thought you'd found a shed 6 pack Charger. Tooheys New? Mate whatever you do DO NOT drink them. They were no good when brand new. Even fresh ones would kill a brown dog. Put em on eBay.

[Yellow_Festiva]

As a lad I remember using the cans that had the 2 holes you needed to press in to open. These have the modern 'system'. When was the 2 hole system ditched?

[Aussie Falcon]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

As a lad I remember using the cans that had the 2 holes you needed to press in to open. These have the modern 'system'. When was the 2 hole system ditched?

From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverage_can#Overview

One unsuccessful variation was the press button can which featured two pre-cut holes (one large, one small) in the top of the can, sealed with a plastic membrane. These buttons were held closed by the outward pressure of the carbonated beverage. To open the can, the consumer would press both buttons into the body of the can, thus opening one through which to drink the beverage, the other to provide sufficient air to allow the contents to flow more easily. The buttons would remain attached to the can, alleviating the earlier issues with pull tab ingestion. A major disadvantage of this method was that a consumer could open a press button can and either remove, replace or taint its contents, before shaking the can enough to force the press buttons to re-seal the can, with little evidence of tampering. Another disadvantage was that it was too easy for consumers to either cut themselves on the sharp edge of either hole or get fingers stuck inside the can whilst pressing the buttons to open it.

[tapeworm]

Love the old turps containers, pure Aussie.

[Fev]

the 2 hole system was ditched probably when they figured out beer gets you drunk.. and when you drink a can with 2 holes in it, one of them aint gonna go in your mouth..

the designer probably got an eyefull of foam or somthingh

Fing out when the new ring pull design came out, it might give you a rough idea???