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Nauru Beer

January 31, 2012

Today in 1968, Nauru gained their Independence from Australia. Nauru Nauru Breweries None Known Nauru Brewery Guides Beer Advocate Beer Me Rate Beer Other Guides CIA World Factbook Official Website U.S. Embassy Wikipedia Guild: None Known National Regulatory Agency: None Beverage Alcohol Labeling Requirements: Not Known Drunk Driving Laws: Not Known Full Name: Republic of [...]

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Beer In Ads #531: Biere de Charmes

January 30, 2012

Monday’s ad is the third ad we’ve featured by famed illustrator Jean D’Ylen. Biere de Charmes was done in 1924 for the French brewery located in the Lorraine that was founded in 1864. The king — Gambrinus perhaps? — sitting atop a pyramid of wooden kegs with two full mugs of beer, one in each [...]

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Beer In Art #159: George Grosz’s Political Conversation, The Cafe

January 29, 2012

Today’s work of art is by the German Dadaist George Grosz. He was born in Germany, but after 1938 he painted primarily in the United States, though he returned to Berlin late in life. He was perhaps best known for his caricatures. This week’s work, completed around 1928, is known as Political Conversation, The Café. [...]

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Guinness Believer Tour

January 28, 2012

Friday night Guinness‘ P.R. firm in New York invited me to the start of the Guinness Believer Tour, which debuted in San Francisco this weekend. The idea was to introduce not just regular Guinness, but also Foreign Extra Stout and their new Black Lager to consumers, who as far as I could tell, signed up [...]

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Guinness Ad #104: St. James Gate

January 28, 2012

Our 104th Guinness ad is another group portrait of many of the iconic Guinness animals and their zookeeper. Last week it was at the zoo, this week they’re at St. James Gate, the “Home of Guinness.” Which is ironic, since I was there last night — sort of. More on that later today.

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Beer In Ads #530: Christian Staerlin’s Phienix Brewery

January 27, 2012

Friday’s ad is old one, undoubtedly from the 19th century. It’s for a St. Louis brewery, the oddly named Christian Staerlin’s Phienix Brewery. I love these old industrial illustrated love letters, showing large, gleaming colorful industrial complexes. They seem to have been quite common at one time. I wonder if anyone’s ever done a survey [...]

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Beer In Ads #529: Go Ahead. Say It. Everybody Else Does.

January 26, 2012

Thursday’s ad is another one for Schlitz, this one from 1967. Using their iconic slogan “When you’re out of Schlitz, you’re out of beer,” it’s presumably meant to be humorous. Showing an interesting contrast, with the patron in a black suit with a red tie while the serve sports a red suit, or at least [...]

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Beer In Ads #528: Mug-Carrying Gusto

January 25, 2012

Wednesday’s ad is for Schlitz, from 1966. It’s another of the “real gusto” series, this one showing a server in a white tuxedo carrying five mugs full of beer. Look closely at the foam. Does that look real to you?

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Beer In Ads #527: More That Bud … That’s Beer

January 24, 2012

Tuesday’s ad is another one for Budweiser, also from 1964 and again withe tagline “that Bud… that’s beer!” In this one, a man with a goofy-looking expression is holding a bottle of beer at a party, and appears to be drinking it straight from the bottle.

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Fun With Beer Cans & Photography

January 24, 2012

In honor of today being “Beer Can Day,” the anniversary of the first beer can’s introduction by the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Co. of Newark, New Jersey on January 24, 1935, here’s an amazing use of a beer can. Now this is recycling, or perhaps more correctly repurposing. For many years, people having been making what [...]

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Anchor Zymaster #1 To Be A California Lager

January 24, 2012

Yesterday Anchor Brewing announced their new line of beers under the “Zymaster Series,” with the first to debut during SF Beer Week in February. This morning I spoke to the Zymaster himself — Mark Carpenter — who told me a bit more about the beer. It sounds like it will be a pretty interesting beer, [...]

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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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Anchor Announces New Zymaster Series

January 23, 2012

As promised on Friday, Anchor Brewing announced today a new series of beers they’ll be debuting during SF Beer Week. The new beers will be under the series designation “Zymaster,” which Anchor describes like this: Zymaster n [Gk zyme leaven + master – more at ZYMURGY] 1: a new word coined by Anchor Brewing to [...]

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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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Ukraine Beer

January 22, 2012

Today in 1918, the Ukraine declared their Independence from Soviet Russia and unified the same day, a year later in 1919. Ukraine Ukraine Breweries Baltika Breweries Chernomor Brewery Chernihiv Brewery Desna / Чернігів Donetsk Brewery Lugansk Brewery Lvivske L’vivska Brewery / Перша Приватна Броварня Obolon Pivzavod Rogan Radomyshl Beer and Beverages Plant Slavutich Slavutich Brewery [...]

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Alaska Barleywine Festival 2012 Winners

January 22, 2012

Here are the winners from this weekend’s Great Alaska Beer & Barley Wine Festival in Anchorage, Alaska. Black Raven Brewing, Redmond, Washington Firestone Walker Brewing, Paso Robles, California Silver Gulch Brewing & Bottling, Fairbanks, Alaska And the Best Winter Beer: Kodiak Island Brewing, Kodiak, Alaska Congratulations to all the winners. Thanks to Tom Dalldorf from [...]

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