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FOSTER POTS Limited Quantities

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PostedJan 20, 2019 at 10:00 pm

I have 9 of these pots left over from an order made for Gossamer Gear.

Cost is $20.00 each FREE shipping for BPL  viewers. This sale is only listed here at BPL.

I have only 9 pots.

Once I have 9 people sign up in this thread I will create a sale page on my store site. This offer will be for 2 weeks only

Pot with aluminum lid and plastic lid weighs in at 29 grams.

It’s the same pot as seen at Gossamer’s site:

https://www.gossamergear.com/collections/cooking/products/gvp-ultralight-stove-system

 

David Thomas BPL Member
PostedJan 20, 2019 at 10:16 pm

I’ve got one of Dan’s Foster pots – great for going SUL, but I use it almost as often when evangelizing about UL backpacking.  Even to someone who has fondled titanium cookware at REI, it’s bizarrely light for it’s volume yet reasonable stiff.

I also love the dumpster-diving ethos of it.

Adam BPL Member
PostedJan 21, 2019 at 4:07 am

I have a couple of these pots as well. Like David says, they are amazing. I’ve also pulled it out to Evangelize to other hikers! Awesome when you have a ~20L pack with gear and food for a couple of days, and they at first think you are out for a short day hike and aren’t as hardcore as them with their big packs ;-)

PostedJan 21, 2019 at 3:19 pm

Thank you everyone for comments and wanting to own a piece of history. Lots of folks out there have used my idea of adding ridges to pots Trail Designs, Minibull and others. When the Heineken Keg became obsolete, something had to take it’s place and so enter the ridged Foster cans.

I created a sale page on my site that only BPL viewers can see and order from.

http://www.woodgaz-stove.com/Ridgelined-Foster-Pots.php

PostedJan 22, 2019 at 1:51 pm

A little bit of remaining beer/ale and a little “good times were had” :dblthumb:

All 7 orders are in the post office and will start their way all across the USA

The blokes in the UK will have to make their own :dblthumb:

Normin, do you wear a hat/derby ?

 

PostedJan 23, 2019 at 12:27 am

ONLY ONE FOSTER POT LEFT

 

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PURCHASED. 

Graham F BPL Member
PostedJan 23, 2019 at 4:42 am

Not Foster, it’s Fosters. Even if the S has been removed.

If you are going to sell some history…….Check out the brothers this beer this was named after.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%27s_Group

You Americans may be surprised at the connection……mentioned in the first paragraph under “History”.

I remember these as stainless steel tins about 500 mls.  We used to stand on the empties as kids in the 1970s to see at the footy in Footscray (in Melbourne) better.

Hope you sell that last one.

PostedJan 23, 2019 at 5:11 am

Ok…..History:
It was founded in Melbourne in 1888 by two American brothers William and Ralph Foster of New York, who happened to own a refrigeration plant. Cooling was necessary to brew and store acceptable lagers in Australia’s hot climate, unlike the English-style dark ales commonly brewed at the time.

After I put the ridges on them it became known as the Foster Pot  Named after William and Ralph.

PostedJan 23, 2019 at 5:27 pm

Thank you JP. I’ll ship it out today :-)

We used to stand on the empties as kids in the 1970s to see at the footy in Footscray (in Melbourne) better.

I had to google “footy in Footscray” and found this:

Youtube video

Graham F BPL Member
PostedJan 23, 2019 at 6:35 pm

Youtube video

Here is some footy action, only highlights unfortunately. Western Bulldogs (originally Footscray) won the equivalent of the Super Bowl, there are around 100,000 people at the Grand Final and 100,000 at each of the finals games leading up to it.

An entire game if you are willing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wuY-K8i0hs

shows the contrast between two football codes well. NFL stop (more stop than start I say) start,

AFL just rolls on and on.

It was the year the bulldogs won the competition.  Fosters was made about 5 kms from there.

PostedJan 23, 2019 at 10:31 pm

AFL just rolls on and on.

That was fun to watch…….thanks!

A few years ago, on another forum, an Aussie said the taste of Foster’s is not liked in Au. Maybe that’s why the company moved to the USA….what say ye to that?

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