Hiding the empties from his wife?

I love stuff like this! I tried to start a thread on things you find in your house but it flopped:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/what-old-relics-have-you-found-in-your-house

careful with the vermiculite insulation

God Iron City is horrible beer. Poor guy.
Some of these cans MAY be worth something belive it or not.

My grandfather was from the Johnstown/ Ehrenfeld area. Smoked a pipe and drank Iron City...I still have a couple of his empty cases of Steelers and Pirates editions. He never hid it though!

They may have been doing all of this as a cheap form of insulation over the years. I've seen people do this with bottles and clay/cement in third world countries. Cheap and effective insulation.

Yep, that is my guess, seems like a good way to trap air.

The initial roofers were alcoholics. I've had to pick up all kinds of crap out of the attic left behind by roofers.

I agree. I have a pinball buddy who loves it. Worst of all though is Utica Club!

I get that sentiment. But you have treasure here.
So many questions still.
You replacing it all? Inventory every can and it's value? Trust me, there is a Canside for that, ebay.

After seeing the aluminum pie trays and pans I think the owner was taking the "tinfoil hat" mania to the next level. Can't read my mind if the ceiling is covered with aluminum above.

I lived in Pittsburgh for 9 months once and never understood why people drank Iron City. To me it was "Iron Shitty" beer.

But you haven't lived (or gagged) until you've tried Utica Club!
I really wouldn't advise it though.

There was a crappy beer I tried in the early 80's. Generic beer. Can had "BEER 12fl oz." printed on it. 99 cents a 6 pack. Truely horrible.

Generic beer? White can?

That's not vermiculite. It's just cellulose. A lot safer, but not that you want to breathe any of this crap anyway...

Had to be one of these

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Yes. White can.

If he drank them all up there where did he piss?

Maybe that's what's rotted the wood?

When we bought our house back in 96 there was an ugly medicine cabinet in the downstairs bathroom that we decided we needed to change immediately. When we removed it we found a wall full of vodka and scotch bottles all the way up to the cabinet. That poor bastard probably sat on his throne sipping his booty.

Into an empty can. It would eventually evaporate....

must be greatwichjohn's former residence.

This was an alcoholic hiding evidence from the wife most likely. I’ve seen this before a few times. The most common place is under the crawlspace lid.

You hush your mouth! It's not the nectar of the gods, but it's a damn serviceable, cheap beer. It's also a pretty neat factory tour.

And aluminum cans make excellent insulation.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236942531_Evaluation_of_Aluminum_Cans_As_A_Thermal_Insulator_in_Reinforced_Concrete_Slabs

Not only do folks list these on eBay. They actually have some demand. Save any boxes you find too...

ebay.com link: sch

I can swallow just about any brew as long as it's cold, and I've had plenty of cheap beer, but Utica Club remains in my memory as the most revolting swill I've ever tried. I made my way through the case or twelve that I brought home with me once from upstate, but never again. It tasted like cardboard was soaking in it!
There's also that OV (Old Vienna?) from upstate, and it should stand for oy vey! Another dreadfully awful brew.

OV and Rolling Rock splits (little bottles-- I think 7oz) were really popular around the time I turned 21. You'd get a bucket full of them on ice, for like $5. I don't think OV is an upstate brand-- but it was really bad.

My vote for a bad upstate beer would be Koch's Golden Anniversary (we dubbed it Crotch's Golden Showers)-- (even at $1.49 for a 6-pack, we'd turn our noses up at it)-- and this guy had not-nice things to say about it- https://badboozereview.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/kochs-golden-anniversary-the-worst-beer-in-america/

But there are imports that are even worse! Green Rooster (from Denmark if I remember correctly)-- tasted like soapy dishwater. Retch inducingly bad.

If he could hide the smell of that cheap shit on his breath from his wife that’s more impressive than the cans.

I remember Koch's. It was in a gold colored can. Had it a very long time ago, but don't recall it being really bad. In fact, I think my brother actually liked it!
We used to get Canadian Ace in a glass gallon jug for $1.00! That was back when we didn't care much how it tasted, as long as it got you good and buzzed!

And Rolling Rock... forget about it now, and even when it was brewed in Latrobe, it was, to me, the most inconsistent beer. Usually pretty good, but often not.
It's the only beer I've ever brought back to the store. I once bought a case at a local distributor, and had a few. It tasted like vinegar. I brought it back, and told them it must have been a bad batch.
They took it back, but I think I made a different selection as a replacement.

Never heard of that one before. Our go-to was Meister Brau, at $1.29 a six pack. Mickey's Wide Mouth was another one... just awful. I suppose it's a bit like the Dave Chappell skit for Samuel Jackson Beer "IT'LL GET YA DRUNK"

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Next time I'm building a wall in a house, I am going to fill it with crazy stuff. Punch cards, Billy Beer, A floppy disk that contains fake encryption strings stating they are a Bitcoin key, a newspaper printed on Mylar with a date of 2391 written in a language I'll need to make up, a porno DVD, a sock, a Zip disk that contains random characters with just enough non-random entries to make it intriguing, and 512 prophecies that are completely vague so the reader can just fill them into their history to show they were true.

Yeah, Mickey's. Again, at the time I thought they were pretty good!
Genny Cream Ale. Yum!

The Rathskeller in State College PA, home of PSU, used to sell cases of Rolling Rock pony bottles for $12 at an event called "case studies". I believe they hit the Guinness book of world records for the most cases sold. It was crazy. You'd get an opener with the case and the men's room had a piss trough that was filled with bottles you would top off.

Literally, the "beer return"!
I used to say, "I'm going to the beer return" when I was in a bar and had to relieve myself.

Recycling/reusing before it was cool. Pretty creative!

The treasure must be somewhere else.