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Beer In Ads #1353: A Better Beer Naturally

October 24, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Friday’s ad is for Gretz Beer, from 1951. This is from a series of billboard ads from the same year I stumbled upon, though I’m sure the originals in color are more spectacular. In this Gretz ad, they’re advertising it as “a better beer naturally.” I wonder what they meant by that? There;s a clue in this wonderful sentiment that ends the ad. “Made the old-fashioned way — slowly — naturally.” I guess every other brewery was making their beer a completely different, and unnatural, way. Oh, and fast, too.

Gretz-1947

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



Comments

  1. Gary Gillman says

    October 26, 2014 at 3:09 am

    Jay no doubt they meant the beer was aged longer than the norm in this period.

    Gary

  2. Gary Gillman says

    October 26, 2014 at 3:22 am

    Actually, I think I found the final answer to the natural question: the beer wasn’t artificially carbonated(sees mother period ad in this piece):

    http://hiddencityphila.org/2012/06/whats-up-with-the-gretz-brewery/

    That smokestack really speaks to a by-gone era, doesn’t it? Good to see the Gretz family still involved in the beer business albeit a different branch from brewing.

    Gary

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