Identify this bottle

[robbiex0r]

Hello, I don't post much because I don't need to, you have all my questions answered, so thanks for that

I found this bottle in the woods in southeastern WI, it is Red Stripe shaped, but twist off, and has a cool barley and hop marking along the neck, with an Eagle-type crest.
Here are the pics.

There is one more symbol just before the bottle tapers around to the base, that says 12 JL 86. The JL is more like a bent arrow, but if it were letters, it would JL. I can take a pic of that too, if it will help.

 

[hopsoda]

not sure but i found a cool poster of old beer bottles. still searching.
http://jesskidden.googlepages.com/GoodTasteBeerBottle.jpg

 

[robbiex0r]

I looked through all 283 bottles on http://www.stubby.ca/

no match *sigh*

 

[philrose]

Identified: totally sweet bottle. Problem solved.

 

[user 22118]

Seems to me to be Germanesque because of the eagle. I have no other comments on the subject. It is also probably new because of the screw cap (meaning less than thirty years). Cool bottle though.

 

[Brew-Happy]

I am going out on a limb here, but the 12 JL 86 could be a date stamp: July 12, 1986.

Here is an antique bottle site: http://www.antiquebottles.com/dating.html

It states that screw top bottles are after 1920, which supports the date idea.

Is there a patent number on there? If so, try this site: http://www.bottlebooks.com/patentdater.htm

It might help with your search.

This might have been a "local" microbrew bottle given the amount of money spent on making the detailed design. Contact a couple of older breweries to see if they have any idea.

Good luck in your search. These are the types of distractions that keep me up at night

 

[olllllo]

Pheiffer http://www.pfeifferbeer.com/

Note that the cap and the bottle impression logo are the same.

 

[Cheaton]

Nailed like a drunken debutante on prom night!

 

[Brewin_CRAZY]

Nope that clearly isnt it...... Not even close.

 

[Walker]

ollllllllo, how did you find that anyway?

 

[olllllo]

I thought it might be a G Heileman product from memory, Pheiffer was bought by them.

 

[KayaBrew]

I read your post before I even looked at the photo, and I was going to guess 70's-80's era Genesee, but alas it is not.

 

[robbiex0r]

G. Heileman product makes sense, since I live in La Crosse, home of, you guessed it, Gottleib Heileman and his brewery.

Thanks olllllo

 

[jmendez29]

I would imagine it isn't that old. I remember seeing my parents drink shorties when I was a kid, and those bottles look just like it, but I don't recall if the logo was there. I lived all over Wisconsin, anywhere from Milwaukee up to Delta County in the UP. I'm trying to remember what they drank back then. Maybe Old Style?