bcca fort wayne Three rivers chapter

BREWERY COLLECTIBLES CLUB OF AMERICA

Welcome to the home site for the Fort Wayne BCCA / NABA Three Rivers Chapter. Our objective is to promote the hobby of Breweriania Collecting through local area shows, monthly chapter meetings, and this web site.

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Our club was originally formed in 1974, by a group of local area beer can collectors, as a non for profit chapter of the Brewery Collectibles Club of America. Membership now primarily consists of craft beer enthusiasts that collect anything and everything beer related, with a few history nerds, and home brewers mixed in. We conduct a social gathering on the third Thursday of each month, at various locations, in and around Fort Wayne. Our meetings are very casual, and open to everyone. If you are interested in collecting, brewery history, or local craft beer, please fill free to contact us. 

“YOU CAN’T HAVE YOUR BEER AND DRINK IT TOO”

 But you can collect the empty cans, bottles, and signs

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Save the First Saturday in November for the

Fort Wayne Brewery Collectibles Show.

-The BCCA Three Rivers Chapter “BUY-SELL-TRADE” show is open to the public on Saturday Nov. 1st, 2025, from 8am-1pm, at the Classic Café, 4832 Hillegas Rd. Fort Wayne, IN.

  -See 95+ dealer tables, a LARGE all brewery estate sale, and our LARGE RAFFLE!!

 -Early set-up on Friday Oct. 31st from 2pm-5pm. followed by an open-house tour and party.

-*PARKING FREE / ADMISSION FREE / COFFEE & DONUTS FREE

 -This year’s local guest brewery is Fortlandia Brewing Co. They will be slinging beers from 10-1pm, and Clancy will be serving his world-famous brats from 11-12am.

-Eight-foot tables are $20ea. With or without power.

Dealer space WILL sell out quickly. Reserve your table space NOW

 contact us by email HERE

contact Don Cuney at 260-229-1556

For the past 51 years, we have conducted an all volunteer, brewery collectibles, buy-sell-trade show.  In the Convention Hall, you will see over 90+ dealer tables filled with rare and unique brewery advertisement pieces, from the pre-prohibition era, to the latest in craft beer collectibles.

Steins, signs, glasses, t-shirts, beer cans and bottles all can be found.

ENTER TO WIN IN OUR HUGE RAFFLE

three rivers chapter founding member leroy H. art BCCA #6720 (1933-2022)

OLD CROWN ALE IS BACK IN THE FORT link

now open at 1010 Spring Street, Fortlandia Brewing is Fort Wayne’s most innovative craft beer paradise. With four brewmasters in the brew house, each will be pouring their own individual character and creativity into every glass of beer

Local can of the year Alps Brau. A limited release, event can, was produced for the 2020 Fort Wayne Brewery Collectibles show. Brewed and packaged by members of the BCCA / NABA Three Rivers Chapter, with awesome help from Mike Flaherty at GnomeTown Brewing. This is a nostalgic re-make of the Cool, Crisp, Clear, Bavarian Style “Alps Brau” that was first brewed in 1957 at the Centlivre Brewery, here in Fort Wayne. After the closing of Old Crown in 1973, Peter Hand Brewing of Chicago continued to brew Alps Brau until 1980.

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