Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for December 05, 2016

If I were in Andy’s platoon in the British Army, I’d also be surprised to see Andy trying to cram all that booze in his pack.

I heard that the desert heat caused the cans to leak and was not such a good idea………………

During the first Iraq war, US troops were surprised that British troops had lots of condoms.The British were using condoms to avoid getting sand in their arms!

@afficionado W M bOye lad perhaps this will answer your query?In 1931, the small brewery at Felinfoel was the first brewery outside the USA to commercially can beer. Prior to this time, beer was only available in barrels or in glass bottles. From this time, lightweight tin cans could be used. Felinfoel Brewery was a major supplier to British armed forces abroad in the Second World War – cans saved a great deal of space and weight for wartime exports compared to glass bottles, and did not have to be returned for refilling. Nolliag Shona!

Been there and done that. But we were fitting cans into an M72 rocket launcher, in the 80’s, you had to check before firing.

A buddy did that before a footmarch. His smile before opening the can was only outdone by our laughs as the contents left the can as foam.

Sounds like my late father-in-law! He would pack his game bag with home brew when we went hunting!Needless to say, he didn’t do much hunting!

Hot beer? No thank you! Got to be ice cold.

Yes we had canned beer in WW2. Many were in green camouflage cans. The cans were steel, not aluminum and you had to pretty macho to crush one with your bare hands. They had no pull tabs but there was usually a church key in every case. Some of the cans were shipped back here after the war and could be purchased at army surplus stores. Some of those were severely over-ripe.

Bet they made a racket too!

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Got some snow at my place earlier today. It doesn’t look like it will last long but that’s okay.

beer belongs in a bottle or keg