Rolled Burger Can

This month I want to show a new can I just added to the shelf, a Burger Ale from Cincinnati. This was a short-lived design from the mid-to-late 1960s. It's a fairly scarce can so I was happy to get it. It was on eBay as an unrolled flat. (see photo below)

How did I get this can sheet turned into a can with lid and bottom, etc? I used a professional to do the work, Art's Beer Cans. Art is a whiz at repairing and rolling cans. First though, I had to find the right lid.

How to find the correct lid? A buddy has the matching Burger Ale can to this Beer and he sent me a photo of the lid. I went though my trade stock of extra cans and found a Blatz from Newport, Kentucky with the right lid. It became the donor can. I sent the flat sheet and the donor can to Art, a few weeks later, viola, a sweet Burger Beer for my shelf. (the "K" on the lid was on the donor can. I do not know why it was there, but I left it)

I don't always have flat sheets rolled. In fact this is the only one I'd had that done. If this had been a single label can, with one big label that wrapped around the whole can I'd leave it as a flat so you could see the whole thing at once. But in this case it's a double label can (the same label on both front and back) so it'll look good on the shelf.

You can see an example of an unrolled can that needs to be kept as a flat to see the whole label on my Old Georgetown page.