Vintage NOS 1970s Brewers Root Beer Bottle Cap 🍺 Reading Pennsylvania

Remember Brewers Root Beer? 🍺 Vintage NOS 1970s Bottle Cap, Reading Pennsylvania

Size: 1 1/4"

🍺 A root beer that wanted you to think of a brewery. This brown cap reads BREWERS OLD STYLE ROOT BEER, and it's never been on a bottle, so the skirt is still uncrimped.

🔍 What's on it

A brown top with three lines of cream lettering: BREWERS, OLD STYLE, ROOT BEER. That's all it says. No town, no bottler and no date are printed on it, and the underside is plain silver-gray metal with a sealing liner. One of the photos shows two caps, one face up and one face down, so you can see both sides.

🏭 The Reading Find

These caps come with a story the hobby has passed along. A batch of them turned up in an old bottling plant in Reading, Pennsylvania, and the dealers who handled that find have sold them ever since as Reading caps, dated to the 1970s. The cap doesn't name its bottler, so that plant find is where the Reading and the 1970s come from.

Pennsylvania is where commercial root beer got its start. Charles Hires, a Philadelphia pharmacist, was selling 25-cent packets of root beer powder by 1876, each enough to make a gallon, and he gave away free glasses at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia that year to win customers. Hires didn't sell it bottled until 1893. And a name like Brewers Old Style sure sounds like the brewed, old-fashioned kind.

📏 Details

• Vintage Brewers Old Style Root Beer crown bottle cap, brown and cream
• From the Reading, Pennsylvania bottling plant find, dated 1970s by the trade
• Never crimped onto a bottle, New Old Stock
• About 1 1/4" across
• You'll get one cap like the ones shown

🖼️ It's a nice one for a root beer collection, a Reading or Berks County shadow box, or anybody who grew up with a frosty mug of the good stuff.