Pewter Beer Mugs

Have a cup of beer and old tin was wondring if it is safe to drink

Absolutely not! Pewter is a combination of lead and tin. Acids serve many drinks to release the lead in the body. Lead poisoning in a premature death of many of the colonial era and earlier times. Do a google on it and you will see they are indeed dangerous to use.

It depends on age. Not all led into it, ever, with less and less from 1700 by the Second World War has been almost no lead tin food. A real antique would cost $ $ $ $ and would blacken easily. New tin can be made to look old, but it is very different from the old tin lead. Report Abuse

I would say no. It is a good chance that led her, you do not want to be ingested.

I, simply wash the good ... and ensure that there is nothing stuck inside ... if there is no ...

you can get a newer one in case.

Use it to hold pencils and get a good stone or glass cup instead.