Thursday’s Thanksgiving Day ad is another one for Budweiser, this one from 1953. “When You Know Your Beer … It’s Bound To Be Bud, or at least that’s what the disembodied heads seem to be saying at Thanksgiving. That is a fine looking turkey she’s got there, but I’m not so sure about his beer.
Archives for November 26, 2015
Patent No. 4555034A: Beer Mug
Today in 1985, US Patent 4555034 A was issued, an invention of Ludwig Gerhards, for his “Beer Mug.” Here’s the Abstract:
A beer mug is formed of the mug container and a lid made out of wood. The lid is hingedly connected to the handle secured to the mug container and can be releasably attached to the handle by a snapping connecting device which includes a connecting element of an elastic plastics on the lid and a hinge mounted on the handle and provided with a pivot which can be snapped into a slot formed on the end portion of the elastic connecting element.
Thanksgiving Wishes From The Brookston Beer Bulletin
I just finished my family’s Thanksgiving feast, enjoyed with a 2015 magnum of Our Special Ale from Anchor Brewing, and finished a piece of peanut butter pie. Boy am I stuffed. Before I’m found drooling on the sofa, watching the Packers game, I wanted to take a moment to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving.
I’m incredibly thankful that people come here to read what I write, see what I share and drink what I drink. Thank you from the bottom of my pint glass.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving Day is here at last …
The family’s come from far and near.
The kitchen’s smelling mighty nice;
And Dad’s got Ballantine on ice.
That’s the beer we like best …
Deep-brewed to meet the “icebox test.”
We chill the bottles thoroughly …
Flavor that chill can’t kill, you see!
Priceless. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Patent No. 2222767A: Hop Picking Machine
Today in 1940, US Patent 2222767 A was issued, an invention of John Gray Charles, assigned to the Guinness Son & Co. Ltd., for his “Hop Picking Machine.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:
The present invention relates to hop picking machines of the kind in which the bine, after having been cut from the plant, is attached to a conveyor which draws it past one or more series of transverse rows of moving projections or picking fingers carried upon rotating drums, chains, or the like, and which are designed to engage the hops and pull them from the short stalks or stems by which they are attached to the bine, the arrangement being such that the effective portions of the paths of movement of the projections or picking fingers is parallel or substantially parallel to the effective portion of the path of movement of the conveyor.