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Archives for July 10, 2013

Beer In Ads #928: How American It Is … To Want Something Better

July 10, 2013 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad for Ballantine Ale, from 1945. Anticipating the post-war boom in home construction, it shows a couple looking over the blueprints for their new home, although the salesman holding them looks a little sleazy to me.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Ballantine, History

The Beer Belly Of America, Part 1

July 10, 2013 By Jay Brooks

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Today’s infographic is part one of three, created by Floating Sheep in 2010, using data collected in 2008. It’s from a post entitled the Beer Belly of America. The first map shows geographic references to bars vs. grocery stores, and where (in red) the bars are mentioned more frequently (and then they compared census data, which corroborated their findings).

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Click here to see the map full size.

Filed Under: Just For Fun Tagged With: Infographics, Statistics, United States

How To Open A Beer Compilation

July 10, 2013 By Jay Brooks

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My brother-in-law sent me this video this morning. There are a million ways to open a beer bottle, and this video includes a lot of different ones, including a few that seem pretty impractical (rendering the beer undrinkable) and some that look downright dangerous, but then there also some clever and funny ones, too. Enjoy.

Filed Under: Beers, Just For Fun Tagged With: Humor, Video

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