After looking at all of the Banana Wagons I realised that propably Only teatotallers collected banana wagons and they look boring and very similar. only a couple of variations.

Now a much more sensible wagons are BEER WAGONS.
Beer wagons are around in great abundance and variations so we should have a topic devoted to BEER wagons.
Now beer wagons are collected by serious Drinkers and also occassionally Non Drinkers and usually of a Mature Age.

Now I am not sure how many Beer wagons I have but later i will go and find them where the beer drinking bandits have hidden them and put them on show.

So let us outdo then pesky Banana car collectors who end up with Dozens of the same car where us mature collectors have dozens of different Cars.
Beer is better than Banana Smoothies. you can drink many variations of beer but only 3 or 4 types of Banana and they all taste the same.
Let the Show Begin.

NN (Hic)

Well said Nev and I thank you that I can now graduate from those pesky banana collectors to the mature collectors

I totally agree with you, beer wagons are the way to go, and have been collecting them a lot longer than those pesky bananas.

To start the ball rolling here's a short video of my special Schöfferhofer Br 185 with a rake of Schöfferhofer wagons



On a side note, I used to belong to a Beer Club (24 members) for the past 10 years. We used to meet at the end of every four weeks (as that was our flexi period for work) in an old house where we would consume four types of different international beers.

When you arrived you were given a half liter stein full of beer and after a sip or two you had to answer three questions:-

1) what country did the beer come from
2) What was the name of the beer
3) What was the alcohol content.

To say the least not many got all three right. Although we had great fun and found out that a lot of our members geographically didn't know where Slovakia was to their a....h...s. Alcohol content used to range anywhere from 1.5% to 11.9%, so after four beers no one cared where Slovakia was.....no offense to anyone of Slovak extraction, as one of the rules was that you couldn't ditch your beer, you had to drink the lot

In the time span that the club ran we had over 500 different types of international (and some Australian boutique beers - every now and then we would thrown in a VB and see what happened) beers from countries such as Belgium, Germany to Namibia and Bosnia-Herzogovina and countries I can't even spell now. We used to have special half day meetings every year, where we would "taste" 10 beers

I even managed to acquire beer wagons of the beers I had drunk.

Unfortunately the club has folded as my place of employment moved into the city and we had no place to meet discreetly.

Anyway, sorry for dribbling of course .

Bring on the beer wagons, I shout

B2

Ah yes, but that long wait, makes the second so much more tastier

Ah yes, we had names for people like that, best one would have been Goanna pockets.

And I bet he had deep pockets and short arms.

Very Nice BUT you only showed a few of them.

Very Nice, I am going to get all of mine out tomorrow and count and photo all of them


NN

Must be or no quality Control but then again it may heve been Emu a horrible Perth Brew.

NN

See you tomorrow.

Here is one of my favorites

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Hi Nev,

Thanks, thirsty work in the club house.

Ian.

Thanks Kimball & Ian.
I think I have enough but one never knows what is around the corner.

NN

On a personal note I have one banana a day and sometimes no beer.

NN

Hi John,

And here's my social guidance officer telling me I have a problem.

Ian.

Ian,

At least I'm still on the ground but you are already up in the mountains, near the clouds and I don't know how your guidance officer can reach you when you're that high up, for safety reasons, take your banana telephone with you. picture will follow

John

Dusan,

Nice composition of beer wagons and a rare beer loco.

How many of them are still in operation, and are these carriages full, half full, half empty or empty ?

First I'll start with the new style long beer wagons.

















Now for the older style long beer wagons











Tomorrow the Hobby style beer wagons.

Ian, Empty of course. you do not leave full beer wagons laying around. The beer bandits of the Local M CLub will steal, sorry , drink the contents.

NN

Love em all! I have years to catch up!! You guys know how to collect great wagons, build scenery, maintain themes and take great pictures! Give me another 10 years, at least, and I might be able contribute here :-) Greetz /roger

Hi Piet,

Great looking beercars, perfectly matched to the great looking photo's.

Ian.

Thanks Dusan

Yes, the cars are all Märklin.
I have that BR 24 too, but replaced it this year with the new one, see my website

Very Nice Dusan and pab

Dusan you never told me you had the brewary model on your layout when you ordered mine you cheeky bugga

Me not listen bah

wow fantastic Dusan, beer wagons at next meeting by the looks

Hi Dusan,

Great collection of beer wagons.

Ian.

soon I hope.

Spitz, me thinks not only have you hit the beer, the whisky but also the fermented bananas from your local berry tree The Grog in Deutschland???? Is It Schnapps

As they say in the classiscs, keep 'em comin'

Now to finish the collection.

Different shapes







Primex Beer Wagons





Fleischmann Beer Wagons













Trix Beer Wagons











Roco Beer Wagons









Piko Beer Wagons





Liliput Beer Wagons






Well that's it..........for now.

75 different breweries.
7 different makes.
141 beer wagons.

Now to start looking for some more