Art & Beer

Beer In Ads #526: That Bud … That’s Beer

January 23, 2012

Monday’s ad is for Budweiser, from 1964. The ad features a fisherman holding a flat-top can, with his rod over his shoulder and flies stuck into his cap. But it’s really the copy that stands out in this ad, staring with the tagline “that Bud… that’s beer!” But look to the left, here’s a gem. [...]

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Beer In Art #158: Marcel Gromaire’s The Beer Drinkers

January 22, 2012

Today’s work of art is by the social realist French artist Marcel Gromaire, and the majority of his ouvre depicted characters in social settings. Our featured painting is no exception, and it shows a pair of men enjoying some pints of beer in a pub, inn or cafe. The title of the work is The [...]

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Guinness Ad #103: At The Edinburgh Zoo

January 21, 2012

Our 103rd Guinness ad is obviously a tie-in Guinness did with the Edinburgh Zoo, which makes sense since so many of the animals featured in their early advertising were zoo animals, and even often included a zookeeper, too. The animals in the first ad look more like they did in the iconic ads. In the [...]

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Beer In Ads #525: Real Gusto With A Sandwich

January 20, 2012

Friday’s ad is for Schlitz, also from 1962. It’s from their “Real Gusto” campaign, and in this one a man with a crewcut is downing his beer, while holding a sandwich in one hand.

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Beer In Ads #524: The Cowboy High Life

January 19, 2012

Thursday’s ad is for Miller High Life, also from 1962. It’s a very fake-looking western setting, just a studio with a few props — a wagon, fence and saddle. Couldn’t they have done the same shot at an actual farm or even better, a cattle ranch? Our “cowboy,” mug of beer in hand, is looking [...]

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Loving the White Rabbit

January 19, 2012

We all know good labels, packaging and artwork can help a beer sell. I may not like that a mediocre beer might sell better than a great one if it has more eye-catching artwork, but it happens all the time. It was especially true in the early days of craft beer when many people who [...]

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Beer In Ads #523: Bowling Night

January 18, 2012

Wednesday’s ad is another one for Budweiser, this time from 1962. Showing a half-dozen men of varying ages out for a night of bowling — league night, no doubt — and also drinking a few beers “between frames.” It seems likes everybody was in a bowling league in the 1950s through the 1970s. My Mom [...]

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Beer In Ads #522: Have A Glass

January 18, 2012

Tuesday’s ad is for Budweiser, from 1961. The very-red ad shows a greasy-haired bartender in uniform, handing you a glass of Budweiser. There’s a bowl of popcorn on the bar and a Bud lamp on the wall behind. The ad is part of A-B’s long-running “where there’s life … there’s Bud” campaign, showing their beer [...]

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Beer In Ads #521: Move Up To Schlitz

January 16, 2012

Monday’s ad is for Schlitz, also from 1960. The ad was suggesting that instead of staying home to watch the big horse races, that tavern keepers instead invite you “Come and Watch the Races.” It looks to me like the couple drinking Schlitz must have won their race, they look so happy.

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Beer In Art #157: Edouard Manet’s Two Women Drinking Bocks

January 15, 2012

Today’s work of art is by the prolific French artist Edouard Manet, and this is the fourth time I”ve featured a beer-themed work of art by him. This one is a pastel created in 1878. It’s known as Two Women Drinking Bocks. Today, the original is part of the Burrell Collection in Glasgow, Scotland. It’s [...]

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Guinness Ad #102: St. George & The Guinness

January 14, 2012

Our 102nd Guinness ad harkens back to a bygone era, when knights in shining armor battled fire-breathing dragons to rescue damsels in distress. When it’s really from, I have no idea. But when St. George prepares to battle the dragon in the distance, his squire first brings him pint of Guinness. “Guinness For Strength” reads [...]

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Beer In Ads #520: Back In The Days — The Good Old Days … When Beer Was Really Beer Was

January 13, 2012

Friday’s ad is for Pabst Blue Ribbon, from 1960. They seemed to focus on this nostalgia theme around that time, as if the 1890s or so was the best time ever for beer. I doubt that’s true, but it’s usually safe to make such a claim when few people who lived then are still around [...]

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Beer In Ads #519: Bottoms Up With Colt 45

January 12, 2012

In honor of Bikini Appreciation Day, Thursday’s ad is for Colt 45, from 1974. Showing the backside of a raven-haired woman in a white bikini playing the board game Bottoms Up while a side-burned lothario is looking way too intently at the game, which is especially odd since Bottoms Up is not exactly a game [...]

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Beer In Ads #518: Put The Finest Label … On Your Table

January 11, 2012

Wednesday’s ad is for Miller High Life, from 1960. The men drink beer (and at least one smokes) while watching the woman outs out all of the food. And it’s quite a spread. And in the inset pictures below you can see close-ups of two of the dishes. I’m both hungry … and thirsty.

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Beer In Ads #517: Pouring Carling Black Label

January 10, 2012

Tuesday’s ad is for Carling Black Label, from 1960, from their “People try it … and they like it” series. The ad simply shows a glass of Carling Black Label being poured into a glass. I’m thirsty. But does that glass look striped? Like it’s a crystal glass with vertical indentations? Hmm. Something is making [...]

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Beer In Ads #516: Next Time You’re Drinking Beer, Look At The Label

January 9, 2012

Monday’s ad is for Budwesier, from 1957, from their “Where’s there’s Life … there’s Bud!” series. Showing a couple presumably making dinner as the wife tosses a salad while her husband pours the beer, which she appears to find far more interesting than the salad. But what I really love is the ad copy in [...]

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