Editing Beer can pyramid (section)

== Largest beeramids ==
An [[E Clampus Vitus]] chapter based in [[Butte County, California]] stacked 14,281 beer cans into a 14-foot pyramid in 1985. The cans were sold for scrap for $140 and the proceeds donated to seal conservation.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lake |first=Perry |date=4 May 1988 |title=Clamping down on a drunk image |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/927817805/?match=1&terms=%22beer%20pyramid%22 |work=Chico Enterprise-Record |pages=25}}</ref>

Members of the [[Singapore Polytechnic]] [[rock climbing]] club constructed a beer pyramid out of 6,930 empty beer cans in 1997.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Clerkson |first=Andy |date=March 2000 |title=Stuff Scores a World Record! |work=Stuff |url=https://archive.org/details/stuff-magazine-06-2000-02-03-alicia-witt-b/page/n11/mode/1up?q=beeramid |pages=11, 103}}</ref>

In November 1999, the American staff of [[Stuff (magazine)|Stuff]] magazine built a beeramid standing 16 feet high out of 22,140 [[Miller Lite]] cans over the course of over 100 hours, with the assistance of [[University of Wisconsin System|University of Wisconsin]] engineering students. <ref name=":0" />

On 23 September 2000, the Malaysian Can team, consisting of 12 college students from the INTI College Subang Jaya, Malaysia built a free standing can pyramid created from 9,455 empty aluminium drink cans in 24 minutes at the Mid Valley Megamall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It had a square base of {{nowrap|30 × 30}} cans, measuring {{cvt|1.98|×|1.98|m|ftin}}. This feat made a successful entry into the Guinness World Record and {{asof|2008|1|27|lc=y}} this record has yet to be broken.<ref>{{cite web |title=Official World Record for Largest Beer Can Pyramid |url=http://www.intisj.edu.my/intisj/InfoAbout/GuinessWorldRecord.asp |accessdate=2008-04-01 |author=Inti College Subang Jaya, Malaysia |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080127121253/http://www.intisj.edu.my/intisj/InfoAbout/GuinessWorldRecord.asp |archivedate=2008-01-27 }}</ref>

Another attempt to break the world record Beer Can Pyramid was made with 10,660 beer cans glued into blocks and stood over {{convert|5|m|ft|frac=2}} high.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sobriquet.net/2005/10/07/beeramid/ |title=Worlds Largest Beer Can Pyramid |accessdate=2007-06-12 |author=Richard Rosalion |date=7 October 2005 |website=sobriquet.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016042237/http://sobriquet.net/2005/10/07/beeramid/ |archive-date=2007-10-16 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=hiikeeba |date=8 October 2005 |title=World's Largest Beer Can Pyramid! |website=Wort's Going on Here? |url=https://homebrewer2005.blogspot.com/2005/10/worlds-largest-beer-can-pyramid.html}}</ref> It was built by the Melbourne University Student Union in 2005, and was featured on ''[[Blokesworld]]'' and in [[mX (newspaper)|mX]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Barry |first=Evonne |author-link=Evonne Barry |title=Beer skittles old record |newspaper=[[mX (newspaper)|mX]] |pages=7 |date=2005-10-07 }}</ref>