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A major beer can breakthrough came in 1962 when Iron City, a brewing company in Pittsburg, used a self-opening can. The "zip top" can had a small flat tab riveted to the center of the can's top ...

The Flat-Top Can. Beer cans started with a flat-top design, ... The pull tab-style can (also known as a tab top or pop top) required no accessory other than your hand to be opened.

The beer can has a birthday: January 24, 1935. On this Thursday, Americans could buy beer in flat top steel cans for the first time, but only in Richmond, Virginia.

The pop-top, the umbrella term for the various tab openers that have graced the crowns of cans over the last 60 years, is a patently American invention. It can be heard at cookouts and concerts ...

In the mid-1950s, flat-top beer cans dominated the market because of their easy stacking and filling abilities. Hello, pop-top. Steel was subject to rusting easier, so Hawaii Brewing Co ...

KettleHouse Brewing Co., the neighborhood brewery known for its "bongwater," ginseng and pumpkin beers, will soon introduce Missoula to another new concept: craft beer in a can.

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The standard 12-ounce beer can is being squeezed off store shelves as beverage makers try to one-up each other not only with what’s inside their cans but what the can itself looks like.