if any seabreezers are into beercan collecting, Ive just come across a carton of 24 Hannans lager cans , circa 1988. after they closed in Kalgoorlie , but before they gave up brewing real beer and started filling the cans with yellow fizz. theres even the original box!

If your interested PM me

do those duff cans still go for ridiculous amounts...?

Mark _australia said...

theDoctor said...


do those duff cans still go for ridiculous amounts...?

too right they do

Nup, not anymore... They're selling it by the carton load in europe...

Mark _australia said...

Is it a full carton of full cans? I'd price it b4 giving away


Just in case anyone gives a sh!t when I was about 8 or so, my old man played the last post at the burial of the last Hannan's keg to come out of Kal. It was buried in the main street of Leonora or front of the Agnew pub, can't recall which. No wonder I turned out a bit different if I saw him play last post at Anzac Day every year, and then at the "great loss" of a brewery hahaha

By sunrise the 'local identities' had dug the keg up, never to be seen again. About right for that area, you could not even bury grog deep enough to stop them pinching it

Mark you bought back memories of this! (I have no idea why yours triggered this memory though)

“ Balaclava station opened on 19 December 1859. In 1981 the station buildings were reconstructed.

In 1996 two men found $200,000 in a drum buried beneath one of the platforms. They handed it into the police and the find was reported in the media. In the same week another man found a second drum under the platform containing a similar quantity of money, which he also turned into the police. As no one claimed the money, both men were granted ownership of the money they found, despite being considered trespassers on land owned by the Public Transport Corporation."

they seem to be worth about 99ceach
they are /were still full of beer. considering the contents are 24years old it looks and tastes like a really hoppy/malty home brew Im stunned at how good it tastes.
It even reminded me of how you would wake up with a farty, runny hannans hangover.
only 14 full cans to go !!!!
im putting the cans carefully back in the box,
perhaps an old sail or wally mast as a swap if Im lucky.
you never know what you'll stumble into next
PS does anybody know how to switch off the predictive text on a samsungGT E11 50i, my computer is so slow that it times out before I can download the manual