A man who tasted a beer worth £ 25,000 has been named as the 'Dullest In Britain', after spending 40 years curating the UK's largest collection.
Avid collector Nick West has over 9,000 unusual and rare tinnies and started collecting his prized possessions when he was just 16-years-old.
Now 59-years-old, Nick has had to move home twice to fit them all in, after having to build an extension on his previous home to make space for the cans.
The father-of-two started his collection in 1975 after watching a report on TV about a man who sold beer to collectors in the US.
At the age of 16 Deborah, who would later become his wife.
Nick remembers how the other people at the party thought he was after he swept over the left over cans.
Nick and his wife drunk all the beer at one point in a large five-bedroomed Victorian house so Nick could display his treasures.
But the beer can now be donated to a local museum - so he can buy a smaller house.
He amassed 9,300 cans before making the 'heartfelt' decision to trim down his £ 25,000 collection - to just 1,500.
In 2015, Dull Men of Great Britain appeared in a book called 39 other considered boring. Paul Rabbitts, from Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, has visited a remarkable 300 bandstands across the UK and kept detailed records.
It also features another 'boring' Jeremy Burton, who lives near Windsor in East Berkshire, and has visited the huge number of countries he has visited.
While David Morgan, 72, from the Cotswolds, Tim Barker, who lives in Silloth, Cumbria, has been collecting more than 12,000.
A poll last time online asked People to vote for Britain's Dullest Man - and Nick took first prize.
Nick, who worked in marketing until retiring in 2017, said: 'My wife and I drank almost all the cans.
'I drank the beers and stouts and Deborah would drink the camps.
I was 16 years old, I enjoyed collecting things like stamps.
'I remember at the beginning Deborah hosted a party when we were at school and everyone thought I was weird because I was going to collect the empty cans for my collection.'
He said that Deborah grew to resent the hobby when he first met.
'It's been a massive impact on our lives', he said.
His first can was a half pint of Heineken - and the oldest in the collection dates back to 1936.
Deborah, 59, who met when he was 16 at school.
Deborah bought him a book about which can help collecting his passion for collecting.
He sold 6,000 of the cans for a sum of £ 13,500 which is helping to fund his retirement.
The other 1,800 have been given to Oakham Treasures museum in Portbury, Bristol.
He said the beer cans were 'beautifully kept and curated' around his homes with curtains to stop them being damaged by light '.
Another reason that prompted him to quit was the boom in popularity with craft berries. For the first 40 years, he was collecting between 150 and 250 cans per year.
But after the rise in craft he was collecting up to 650 a year which was too much to handle.
Nick, who lives in North Somerset, what's so obsessed with his hobby he would pick up empty cans from the street. But he was pleased with the result.
Nick added: 'I really chuffed, I'm never going to be tall or tall so I'm quite happy with my mantle of dullest man.'
Avid collector Nick West has over 9,000 unusual and rare tinnies and started collecting his prized possessions when he was just 16-years-old.
Now 59-years-old, Nick has had to move home twice to fit them all in, after having to build an extension on his previous home to make space for the cans.
The father-of-two started his collection in 1975 after watching a report on TV about a man who sold beer to collectors in the US.
At the age of 16 Deborah, who would later become his wife.
Nick remembers how the other people at the party thought he was after he swept over the left over cans.
Nick and his wife drunk all the beer at one point in a large five-bedroomed Victorian house so Nick could display his treasures.
But the beer can now be donated to a local museum - so he can buy a smaller house.
He amassed 9,300 cans before making the 'heartfelt' decision to trim down his £ 25,000 collection - to just 1,500.
In 2015, Dull Men of Great Britain appeared in a book called 39 other considered boring. Paul Rabbitts, from Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, has visited a remarkable 300 bandstands across the UK and kept detailed records.
It also features another 'boring' Jeremy Burton, who lives near Windsor in East Berkshire, and has visited the huge number of countries he has visited.
While David Morgan, 72, from the Cotswolds, Tim Barker, who lives in Silloth, Cumbria, has been collecting more than 12,000.
A poll last time online asked People to vote for Britain's Dullest Man - and Nick took first prize.
Nick, who worked in marketing until retiring in 2017, said: 'My wife and I drank almost all the cans.
'I drank the beers and stouts and Deborah would drink the camps.
I was 16 years old, I enjoyed collecting things like stamps.
'I remember at the beginning Deborah hosted a party when we were at school and everyone thought I was weird because I was going to collect the empty cans for my collection.'
He said that Deborah grew to resent the hobby when he first met.
'It's been a massive impact on our lives', he said.
His first can was a half pint of Heineken - and the oldest in the collection dates back to 1936.
Deborah, 59, who met when he was 16 at school.
Deborah bought him a book about which can help collecting his passion for collecting.
He sold 6,000 of the cans for a sum of £ 13,500 which is helping to fund his retirement.
The other 1,800 have been given to Oakham Treasures museum in Portbury, Bristol.
He said the beer cans were 'beautifully kept and curated' around his homes with curtains to stop them being damaged by light '.
Another reason that prompted him to quit was the boom in popularity with craft berries. For the first 40 years, he was collecting between 150 and 250 cans per year.
But after the rise in craft he was collecting up to 650 a year which was too much to handle.
Nick, who lives in North Somerset, what's so obsessed with his hobby he would pick up empty cans from the street. But he was pleased with the result.
Nick added: 'I really chuffed, I'm never going to be tall or tall so I'm quite happy with my mantle of dullest man.'
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Source: Daily Mail, The Sun
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