Vintage DIEHL 12 oz Cone Top Beer Can - Christ Diehl Brewing Co. - Alliance Ohio

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Vintage DIEHL 12 oz Cone Top Beer Can - Christ Diehl Brewing Co. - Alliance Ohio
This is a vintage
DIEHL
12 oz Cone Top Beer Can -
Christ Diehl Brewing Co. - Alliance Ohio.
The Diehl Family has operated a business in Defiance, Ohio since 1870 when Christian Diehl, Sr. bought into a brewing company on the banks of the Maumee River in 1870. Originally known as Karst and Diehl, Christian bought out his partners and eventually operated on his own starting in about 1885, continuing as a family business including succeeding generations as the Christian Diehl Brewing Company. With the advent of Prohibition, the focus of the business shifted to include an evaporated milk condensory, operating as Defiance Dairy Products Company beginning in 1922. A segment of the former brewing component shifted to bottling of alternate products such as soft drinks, including such flavors as ginger ale, root beer, and a local malted chocolate milk product known as Chocolate Baby. In 1930 the condensory part of the operation was sold to a New York company, but their business failed and later the Diehl's bought it back. Brewing operations resumed in 1933 with the end of Prohibition, but the milk products line continued as well. During World War II Diehl filled government contracts for milk for use by the armed forces. During this period as well, the company's biotechnical lab also was engaged in production of penicillin.  Changes in the beer industry starting in the 1950s spelled the end of that aspect of the Diehl business as large national corporations ate away at the market, with the company finally closing down the brewing operation in 1955 and turning some of the space into cold storage which was used by other area companies such as Dinner Bell Meats and Campbell Soup Company.
I rate this beer can in
GOOD CONDITION
overall.   Some surface rust and paint damage.  Still, a nice example of this uncommon Cone Top from Alliance Ohio for you to add to your collection!
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