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Brewery National Brewing Verified 08/09/2012
Type Flat, 12-1, Wide Date PAINT
Company American Can Company Code  

Name Colt Malt Liquor (12, F, No 45, Paint)
Details Colt Malt Liquor (Paintover). Very cool paintover example with images provided by Kurt Matson:

"I found this can along with a number of other Graf's cans in the UP of Michigan in about 1983-84'ish near Amasa, MI. I had started to rub it out shortly after I found it in the mid-80's but stopped when I saw that it was 'just a Colt 45 can'. I didn't know it was missing the '45' on the label until finishing rubbing it out when I dug it back out of my dumper boxes in late 2008. A post on the RB site about paintovers prompted me to dig out all of my Graf's that I had stored away."

No marketed examples are known to exist, but I didn't know there was even the possibility of a Detroit Malt Liquor (not Lager) without the '45' until seeing Kurt's paintover example!!!

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