For years I’ve asked family and friends to remove their beer caps very carefully and save them for me, fully intending to use them in an art project. Years later, I have a ridiculous quantity of beer caps and no desire to complete the originally intended project. I’ve moved beyond THAT project.

Flash forward to this year. In the studio, pouring candles, I run out of tea lite candle containers. I have thousands of wicks, but am out of the containers. As I pour our custom soy candles, I always use the tea lite candles for the overflow wax. I always mix just a little to much of the fragrance and color and hate to waste the leftover.

THIS is how the beercap candles were born and now, they are an obsession.

I have more people bringing in beer caps, and I will trade you a bucket of caps for a sack full of candles…as long as the caps are in good shape, not creased, and clean.

Now, as my inventory of beer cap candles builds, the buckets of caps are dwindling. It’s amazing how many metal caps have been saved from the landfill, because we all know that’s where they end up…you don’t usually save them for recycling.

Each Pure Soy beer cap candle will burn for approximately 1 hour. Perfect for entertaining, birthday cakes, and bathroom emergencies. Keep them in your camping kit for an emergency and in the laundry room to make it smell good. They are terrific for Dads, Moms, and chitlins of all ages.

Burn a candle, save the earth and employ Americans all in one fell swoop.

While our site is under construction, you’ll be able to purchase the candles in the shop in Downtown Defiance, online HERE or at our new Etsy Shop – Abandoned ‘Stache.