From the July-August, 2007 issue: "Collecting
Colored Blobtop Beers"
by David Tingen
My interest in colored blobtops started in
the mid 1960s, although I had a fascination with colored glass years before. My
first dug bottles were real jewels and, to a 10-year-old, a real find. Even the
lowly Bromo was a thing of beauty when placed in my bedroom window.
Being from the South was somewhat of a challenge to a
collector of the beer-style colored blobs and much easier for the soda
collector. The great variety of colored sodas found in the coastal cities of the
Carolinas and Georgia gave me hope that I might find those same brilliant colors
for my collection. Even though North Carolina has some nice amber bottles, the
biggest variety of colors is found mainly in the Northeast and Midwest with nice
shades of green in the West.
