Wednesday’s ad is for John Smith’s XXX, from around 1950. John Smith’s is a UK brand and although it’s not part of their current line-up of beers, I presume that the XXX was their strong beer. The smiling man holding the beer looks really familiar as a British comedian of the time, but I can’t quite place who it might be. Anyone have a thought?
Tuesday’s ad is for No. 3 Scotch Ale, from William Younger’s, possibly from 1913. I like its simplicity, and especially the beautiful label.
Monday’s ad is for Frankfurter Bürgerbräu Bock, presumably a German brand from Frankfurt. I”ve always like this poster, using the traditional imagery but in an artistic way, the boy feeding beer to the goat, or is that a kid feeding beer to a kid?
Today’s infographic features a map of the 13 original colonies and the historic breweries located in each of them.
Click here to see the map full size.
Friday’s ad is for Birra di Borgofranco, a stylized ad for the Italian beer, possibly from 1911. I couldn’t find anything about the brewery itself. Still, what’s with the waitresses hat. That’s a pretty odd-looking chapeau, or should I say cappello. And the complexion on the man about to spill that beer on his tuxedo? Is he a zombie?
Thursday’s ad is for Bürgerliches Brauhaus, a 19th century Munich brewery that in the 1920s merged with Löwenbräu. This poster was created by famed German artist Ludwig Hohlwein.
Today’s infographic is an interesting one. It’s a chart of beer styles created by Brian Roth, marketing director for Leon Farmer & Company, a beer distributor in Georgia.
From the Leon Farmer website, you can download a ginormous version of the chart.
Wednesday’s ad is another one for Biere Paillette, from Brasserie Paillette in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France. This one shows a woman with a beer in her hand, sitting on a wooden cask and floating high above an ocean sunrise (or is that sun setting?), with a large ocean liner coming toward us full steam ahead. What does all this imagery mean? I haven’t a clue. Does anyone?
Tuesday’s ad is for Paillette Speciale Pils, from Brasserie Paillette in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France. The ad was created by Herve Morvan, who’s oftern referred to as The Genius of French Poster Art.
Monday’s ad is for Bieres de Longwy, a French beer, I believe. That’s a guess, but Longwy is in northeastern France. Why doesn’t every pint of beer have such a lovely woman swimming in it?
