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Beer In Ads #1491: Barley Brings Health And Vigor

March 11, 2015 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad is still another one for Anheuser-Busch’s “Malt-Nutrine,” this one from 1911. This is another ad for A-B’s non-alcoholic health drink, marketed with snake-oil salesman enthusiasm. “Barley Brings Health and Vigor” continues that tradition but works only “when ably malted and fermented with the tonic properties of Saazer Hop as in Anheuser-Busch’s Malt-Nutrine.” But I especially love this testimonial. “Thousands of delicate women will testify to its food and tonic qualities.”

A-B-1911-Malt-Nutrine

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



Comments

  1. Beerman49 says

    March 12, 2015 at 8:48 pm

    The last line’s one helluva quaint LYAO!

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