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Lone Star Beer has been putting rebus puzzles on the inside of its bottle caps since 2001 (Lone Star Light came on board in 2005). See if you can solve some of these highly popular puzzles ... Plastic bottle cap
If you live in Texas and you love drinking beer (and some would say the two are synonymous), then there's a good chance you've spent at least one night on a friend's couch solving a puzzle underneath the bottle cap of a Lone Star Beer.
The picture puzzles have been challenging Texans to read small type and perform advanced cognitive problem-solving, all the while drinking beer, since 2001.
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Beer-drinkers got their first swig of the puzzles – technically called rebus puzzles – in 1950 when Lucky Lagers first featured them on its 11-oz. bottles. In 1985 when Pabst Brewing Company bought Pearl, the gimmick moved to Pearl.
Then, when Pabst purchased Lone Star-owner Stroh Brewing Company in 2000, it again transferred the puzzles to Lone Star, which began featuring the puzzles on its original beer bottle caps in 2001 and Lone Star Light in 2005.
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In the years since, the rebus puzzles have become a Texas pop culture phenomenon in honky-tonks and back porches across the state. Lone Star has even launched dual decoder apps in the iTunes and Android stores for users struggling with their harder bottle caps.
We did the work for you, though, in the Lone Star bottle cap quiz above. Test your puzzle-solve skills on 14 Lone Star rebus puzzles and post how you did in the comments below.
John Boyd joined the Houston Chronicle in June 2013. Previously, he has worked as a writer and editor at newspapers in Texas, Louisiana and Iowa.
Yellow Beer Bottle Caps He is a native Texan, life-long Astros fan and graduate of Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas.