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Aspen Beer

Aspen Beer was a brand of beer manufactured by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation in the 22nd and early 23rd centuries and brewed in Aspen, Colorado, United States. The beer came in a 6"-tall 440 ml press button can with the Aspen Beer logo on it.

History[]

Aspen Beer was consumed by some members of the crew of the USCSS Nostromo in 2122; both when the crew first ate in the mess hall after awakening from hypersleep and as they were eating right before Thomas Kane's Chestburster emerged in the same location, Arthur Dallas drank Aspen Beer while another can was on the mess hall's table. Multiple cans were also in an area of the ship where Dennis Parker and Samuel Brett worked.

Behind the scenes[]

The beer cans are notably one of the few times "The Company"'s name — "Weylan Yutani" (later changed to Weyland-Yutani in Aliens) — is revealed in Alien, being written above the Aspen Beer logo. Phil Rae at one time had an Aspen Beer can as part of his collection.[1] Some production-used Aspen Beer cans have been sold following the film's release — one was acquired by the owner of the website Aliens Archive at the Phillips 1996 "Toys And Dolls" auction,[2] the Prop Store sold one in July 2004 for $749.00 and another was listed on their site in 2009.[3] The most recent one to sell was sold by The Prop Gallery in 2014 as part of their "Alien Week".[4]

Additionally, Propsummit.com (a forum dedicated mainly to props in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner) user "SKIN JOB 66" acquired an unused can label from "one of the guys who worked on the movie" in 2008 and made a limited amount of replica cans, although the cans themselves erroneously used pull tabs.[5]

Charles de Lauzirika and Ridley Scott on Prometheus

Charles de Lauzirika, wearing an Aspen Beer shirt, and Ridley Scott on the set of Prometheus.[6]

While Charles de Lauzirika was on the set of Prometheus working on the making-of documentary The Furious Gods, he wore an Aspen Beer shirt.[6]

While Aspen was not featured in the 2014 video game Alien: Isolation (instead replaced with different brands), a sketch of the character Axel done in-universe by Mike Tanaka (whose corpse appears as a sort of Easter egg in the game) released on the latter's in-universe Twitter account depicts Axel drinking Aspen Beer, with the caption "TOO MUCH ASPEN!" in the top right corner.[7]

While a can of Aspen Beer can be seen in a promotional image for Alien: Covenant, the can of beer does not appear in either the feature film or the short film prequel titled The Last Supper, during which, the promotional image was taken.

Trivia[]

  • While a real world brewery does exist in Aspen, Colorado, called Aspen Brewery Company, it was launched in March 2008 and apparently bears no relation to the Aspen Beer in Alien.[8]
  • In the 2018 children's book Jonesy: Nine Lives on the Nostromo, an illustrated adaptation of the 1979 film Alien, each can of Aspen Beer was instead named "Weyland Brew-tani."

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See also[]

  • Balaji Imperial - A similar commodity originally featured in the 1979 film Alien that went on to reappear in a number of franchise related releases.
  • Drinking bird - A similar item originally featured in the 1979 film Alien that went on to reappear in a number of franchise related releases.
  • Cornbread - A similar comestible originally mentioned in the 1979 film Alien that went on to reappear in a number of franchise related releases.
  • Samani E-125 - A similar item originally mentioned in the 1979 film Alien that went on to reappear in a number of franchise related releases.

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