If you are ever traveling through Wisconsin, it might be worth your while to visit the worlds largest Cone top beer can! It's a giant replica of a 1950s Potosi Cone Top which stands over 40 feet high!The bottom of the "can" opens up and leads you into a bar, how cool!
The town is appropriately named Potosi, as is the famous brewery. The building is now on the National Register of Historic Places and can be toured.
It sounds like an interesting tour as the brewery is very old. There is a cave in which ice was harvested from the Mississippi river during the winter and stored in hay in order to keep the beer cool during summer. (an old Amish ice house trick!)
Collectors can still find Potosi cone tops at shows and online auctions for their displays. The "Good Old Potosi Beer" slogan still makes a great piece of beer memorabilia, especially the cone tops of the 1950s.
You enter the bar through the doors of this classic cone top!
The town is appropriately named Potosi, as is the famous brewery. The building is now on the National Register of Historic Places and can be toured.
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| 40 ft Potosi Cone Top Beer Can/Bar View from road. |
It sounds like an interesting tour as the brewery is very old. There is a cave in which ice was harvested from the Mississippi river during the winter and stored in hay in order to keep the beer cool during summer. (an old Amish ice house trick!)
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| Vintage Potosi Cone Top Collector Can from 1950s |
There's a restaurant and they micro brew beer again. The place is doing well and doesn't appear to be in any danger of closing, although that wasn't the case before 1997 or Gary David and his cousins. They purchased the building and started the renaissance, saving the building and spurring economic growth to the community.
Collectors can still find Potosi cone tops at shows and online auctions for their displays. The "Good Old Potosi Beer" slogan still makes a great piece of beer memorabilia, especially the cone tops of the 1950s.
