Real Vermont Air (canned fresh)

Come for the oddity, stay for the wonder.

16 oz can of Vermont atmospheric air sealed at specific conditions. Flexible aluminum walls respond to altitude, weather, and temperature changes—making it a working barometer and altimeter.

Dimensions: 6.19" H x 2.6" diameter. Volume: 16 oz / 473 ml

Can contents: 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, <1% Argon, Carbon dioxide, trace amounts of: Lake Champlain evaporation aerosols, maple sap vapor, Vermont cheddar aging compounds, brewery particulates, flannel microbes, coniferous terpene emissions, hermit thrush air displacement, chairlift mechanical turbulence, moose pheromone, bovine methane derivatives, harvest pollen concentrations.

Full Description:

Yes, this is a can of Vermont air. But before you dismiss it as pure absurdity, know that this can is not empty but something altogether unexpected: a working barometer and altimeter sealed inside a joke.

What It Is: Over 12 quintillion molecules of Vermont atmosphere, captured at 340 feet elevation and sealed in a 16 oz aluminum can. The air inside “remembers” the exact pressure, temperature, and humidity of the moment it was canned air-tight.

How it works: Outside conditions constantly change due to weather, altitude, and temperature. But this can has flexible aluminum walls, so when the can’s internal pressure exceeds external pressure, it puffs up. When external pressure is higher, the can deflates.

What It Does: Unlike traditional novelty canned air (which uses rigid containers that just sit on a shelf), our flexible aluminum walls respond to the world around you:

Take it on a trip: Going on an airplane? Your can will begin to harden right after takeoff. If your destination is well above sea level, you’ll feel it first in the hardened walls of your pressurized can.

Take it hiking: Feel the can expand as you gain altitude—the sealed Vermont air pushing against thinner mountain atmosphere

Track weather systems: Though changes will be subtle, the can will soften before storms as atmospheric pressure drops, and firm up when high pressure moves in.

Demonstrate physics: Hold it in a bowl of warm water and the walls tighten. Chill it and they loosen. Real-time molecular science you can hold in your hand.

How We Stumbled Into This: We set out to make the most ridiculous souvenir imaginable. Every other souvenir canned air in history has used rigid metal containers, but those options don't exist in Vermont. So we used what we have plenty of in Vermont: Beer cans. Flexible aluminum cans from a local brewery, to be exact.

That "limitation" became the entire point. The can that was supposed to be a gag gift accidentally became a real scientific instrument.

No batteries. No calibration. Just elegant physics happening in real time.

Real Vermont Air. Buy it for the joke. Keep it for the science.