Beer departed

May 6 2008

Bill Bramanti will love Pabst Blue Ribbon beer for eternity - and he's got the custom-made beer-can coffin to prove it.

Mr Bramanti, 67, of South Chicago Heights, Illinois, ordered the casket from Panozzo Bros Funeral Home.

Then local firm Scott Sign designed the outside to look like a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer label in the company's signature colours of red, white and blue.

But Mr Bramanti doesn't intend to need the coffin soon ... so he threw a party for friends and filled his coffin with ice and his favourite brew.