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Beer In Ads #3178: Oktoberfest 2007

November 15, 2019 By Jay Brooks Leave a Comment

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Friday’s ad is for the Munich Oktoberfest, from 2007. From the late 1800s until the 1970s, poster art really came into its own, and in Europe a lot of really cool posters, many of them for breweries, were produced. This poster is for the Munich Oktoberfest, which began September 21 and runs through October 6. Originally I thought from now until then I’d post posters from the German folk festival, but now that Oktoberfest is over I think I’ll just keep going. From what I can tell, official Oktoberfest posters started being produced each year beginning in 1952. This poster was created by German artists Alexander Heininger and Ursula Kölle.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Festivals, Germany, History, Oktoberfest

Beer Birthday: Grant Wood

November 15, 2019 By Jay Brooks 1 Comment

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Today is the 57th birthday of Grant Wood, co-founder and brewmaster at Revolver Brewing in Granbury, Texas. For many years, Grant worked at the Boston Beer Co., making Samuel Adams beer, and many of their more experimental offerings, which is where I first got to know him. I knew he’d left to open his own place back home, and he sent me a text at the end of the GABF awards a couple of years ago inviting me to stop by his booth to see what he’d been up to. Not surprisingly, what that was is making great beer. All of the beers I tried were terrific. Join me in wishing Grant a very happy birthday.

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Grant on the floor at this year’s GABF.

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Grant with Revolver’s first keg sold.

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In case anybody was confused as to what they were doing; that’s Grant on the far left.

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Grant back in his Sam Adams’s days two-fisting a pair of Sam Adams Light Beer, before he traded them in for a pair of revolvers. [Note: photos purloined from Facebook.]

Filed Under: Birthdays Tagged With: Texas

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