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Beer In Ads #924: Early American Pioneer

July 4, 2013 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is an Independence Day ad featuring Early American Pioneer Ben Franklin. In this ad, he’s flying a kite — at night, oddly — but I guess that’s so we can see the three-ring Ballantine logo in lightning.

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



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