High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first hint of beverage can printing go all the way back to 1909, but it was not until 1935 before the first beer were sold in cans. A brewery in the United States inquired American Can Company about the possibility of packaging their beer in cans. American Can Company is a member of the Tin Can Trust and “controlled a large percentage of business in the United States in tin cans, containers, and packages of tin.” They failed to produce a successful can.