Bottle caps - let's see them in April

The bottle is to blame.

I opened that small bottle of apple cider I bought the other day and the three of us shared it. It was a mini bottle of 4.1% cider - you can't even get drunk on this, nor do you get a little dizzy.

However, I didn't pay attention to the bottle cap which was there on the table until the next day when I was about to throw it away and my husband asked me why I didn't add it to our bottle cap collection. Maybe that alcohol affected me, not to remember about it... could be the case. So, thanks to my husband I reached that box that you could see in December in this post.

There I mentioned that it hides a collection of bottle caps which will be presented one day.

That day has arrived and at the same time, it will be the topic for the Hive Collectors community in April.

Bottle cap collection!

What do we know about the habit of collecting metallic crown caps? My husband used to collect them when he was young but the whole collection was thrown away lost. For some years my son also used to collect them and these are kept here in this box.

If you lived in the 19th century, you would not be able to collect crown caps as they were invented just in 1892 by William Painter. Thanks to him we also got the bottle opener, which is the only, or let's say the best thing to open the glass bottles with the metal crown cap.

Our collection of bottle caps is relatively small. I counted around 40 different caps of beer, and a few caps of water, soda, and rum. Many are repeated so those don't count... It is much smaller than the largest collection of this item in the world - 101,700 bottle caps, as stated here.

Let's see now together the content of this box.

Crown caps of cider beverages.

Sidra El Mayu is from the bottle that we shared the other day and the cap that shows a tree and ladders (Somersby Cider) was given to us by my niece. She likes to drink it, cold, during summer.

Crown caps of soft drinks

Although I don't drink carbonated soft drinks often, my favourite one from these that we can see in the photo is Schweppes. I also like Sprite but I don't own a bottle cap of it. Fanta is ok, we all know the flavours of Coca-Cola but there is one cap in this collection that I don't know actually what it is - the orange one with the flamingo. My son told me that it is a soft drink too, so it comes in this section.

One mysterious crown cap

I have no clue where this cap arrived from or what kind of drink was in its bottle. Maybe beer, but I really don't know. If you recognize it, feel free to reveal its origin.

Rum crown caps?

I wrote it with a question mark, as we found these caps but again my son was informed that these are caps of rum bottles. He asked Google hahaha, no, he doesn't drink rum. (hmm, I hope... 😂)
What I find cute in these caps are the bats.

Mineral water crown caps

Monte Pinos, Sierra Nevada Agua Mineral Natural and Rosa are caps of natural mineral water but here I made a mistake with La Casera. I thought it was just sparkling water but it is also flavoured... so I think I had to include this cap in the soft drinks section.

My bad. (the alcohol from the cider bottle is to blame 😂)

Beer crown caps

This is definitely the largest section of this collection. Beer, and I don't even consume beer (if @godfish hears me now... 🤐). The thing is that we found the majority of these beer crown caps. There are brands from Spain, Ireland, Germany, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Belgium, and The Netherlands and if there are more countries you can recognize from these caps, you know, feel free to inform me. 😉

...behind the scenes...

As I mentioned, there are many repeated bottle caps in this box, so these were waiting on a pile while the other caps had the photo session. I felt they had to visit this post anyway!

Do you have a collection of metallic crown caps? If not, you are still on time to make one, as this topic is open during the whole month of April. One month is quite a long time to collect a few bottle caps and participate with your entry.

But don't you worry, these topics are not limited just to the current month. I know some users will maybe bring mugs, Christmas postcards, maybe some musical instruments or puzzle collections, at any time of the year.