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Archives for February 29, 2020

Beer In Ads #3275: They All Drink The Beer Of La Croix De Lorraine

February 29, 2020 By Jay Brooks Leave a Comment

Saturday’s ad is for Brasserie et Malterie de la Croix de Lorraine,” from the early 20th century. From the late 1800s until the 1980s, poster art really came into its own, and in Europe a lot of really cool posters, many of them for breweries, were produced. I’ve been posting vintage European posters all last year and will continue to do so in 2020. This poster was for La Croix De Lorraine, a brewery in Bar-le-Duc, a commune in the Meuse area of France, located in the northeast. The brewery is named for the Cross of Lorraine, a particular type of cross common to the area. This one shows fove different people all drinking a large mug of beer with the text above reading “ils Boivent tous la Biere de La Croix de Lorraine de Bar le Duc,” which translates to “they all drink the beer of La Croix de Lorraine from Bar le Duc.” I don’t know who the artist is that created the poster.

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

Beer Birthday: Jessica Jones

February 29, 2020 By Jay Brooks Leave a Comment

Today is the 36nd birthday of Jessica Jones, who’s the former COO of Ninkasi Brewing. Several years ago, she left Ninkasi and became the Chief Marketing Officer and Director of Strategy for Enjoy Beer, the startup founded by Rich Doyle after he left Harpoon, but as far as I know it never really caught on as they’d hoped. Anyway, I haven’t talked to her in quite a while, and it appears she and her husband have moved to Eugene, Oregon and they’ve started a honey business, Queen’s Bounty Raw Honey. But since she’s one of the few people I know born on leap day, I wanted to still post about her birthday this year.

When I first met Jessica, she was blogging at beer as the Thirsty Hopster and helped do some of the behind-the-scenes setup when I founded the Bay Area Beer Bloggers. She then put her education to good use by getting a job with Firestone Walker, and found that she liked working for a brewery. So she went back to school and got her MBA, before moving to Portland. Since 2011, she’s been keeping Ninkasi Brewing humming, and keeping Jamie in line. It’s been fun to watch Jessica’s evolution in the beer world, and how amazing she’s made Ninkasi. And I expect she’ll do great things in her new position, as well. Join me in wishing Jessica a very happy birthday.

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At the Hard Liver Barleywine Festival in Seattle, in 2009. Clockwise from left; Shitwig (a nickname, I believe), Jessica, her sister and her sister’s friend.
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At the end of the Celebrator Anniversary Party in 2009.
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With Nicole Erny and, The Beer Chef, Bruce Paton, at his Beer & Chocolate Beer Dinner several years back.
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Jessica at the Falling Rock, along with her sister (bottom left) and friends, during an SF Beer Week event at the Falling Rock during GABF in 2008.
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Jessica and Scott Perkins at GABF in 2009.

Filed Under: Birthdays Tagged With: Oregon

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