Pabst Blue Ribbon comes out with new cans every year. It is a cool thing they have done for the last several years now. While I am a sucker for the traditional PBR logo, I do like the designs. It makes me feel cool drinking them. Hard to explain, but if you are a PBR drinker at the bar or at home, you get my drift. Here’s the design for this year, and they add a little more color to it that goes out of the traditional color scheme of PBR. I really like it and look forward to it being on my can this summer.

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This year, we wanted to refine our voting process to get more eyes on our submissions and keep the Art Can an open discussion. Alongside our audience feedback + voting, we had past art can winners and @juxtapozmag also weigh in alongside the Pabst Blue Ribbon team. Swipe for a breakdown.

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Trying to explain to people the rise of PBR will be impossible. It was not a beer that many of us thought about when I was in college. I still remember a friend of the program and SnoTapWI’s resident economist, Eric not liking PBR in college then got busted for carrying an open at UW-Stout. The height of irony. It didn’t become a known beer again until 2014 or 2015 then everyone was drinking it. Since then, it is a staple in Milwaukee. It would be cool to see PBR find its way back into Miller Park and Fiserv Forum in more places than just a few beer-specific areas.

Charlie.