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Beer In Ads #2636: Picnic Time With Ballantine’s Brewer’s Gold

May 10, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is for is by Ballantine Ale, from 1957. In the 1950s, Ballantine advertised the hop variety “Brewer’s Gold” as “a rare strain of choice hops” and even registered it as a trade-mark, although Brewers Gold is widely available today. In this ad, at least a dozen people are at a backyard picnic, with lots of conversations going on simultaneously. I love the blonde woman front and center smiling wildly and stretching out her hand with a beer glass in it so she can get a refill. Looks like a great party.

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

Beer In Ads #2635: Pool Time With Ballantine’s Brewer’s Gold

May 9, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad is for is by Ballantine Ale, from 1957. In the 1950s, Ballantine advertised the hop variety “Brewer’s Gold” as “a rare strain of choice hops” and even registered it as a trade-mark, although Brewers Gold is widely available today. In this ad, two couples are enjoying a swim at a swimming pool. The smarter couple is already out of the pool and pouring themselves a beer. But at least they’ve poured beers for the other pair as they lag behind but are finally coming to join them.

Ballantine-1957-swim-time

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

Beer In Ads #2634: Boating Time With Ballantine’s Brewer’s Gold

May 8, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Tuesday’s ad is for is by Ballantine Ale, from 1957. In the 1950s, Ballantine advertised the hop variety “Brewer’s Gold” as “a rare strain of choice hops” and even registered it as a trade-mark, although Brewers Gold is widely available today. In this ad, a couple took a rowboat across a lake and have stopped at a secluded spot, where another couple was waiting for them, having already laid down a blanket and were settled with glasses of Ballantine Ale. But it looks like they have enough beer to go around.

Ballantine-1957-rowing-time

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

Beer In Ads #2633: More Pirates For Ballantine’s Brewer’s Gold

May 7, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Monday’s ad is for is by Ballantine Ale, from 1958. In the 1950s, Ballantine advertised the hop variety “Brewer’s Gold” as “a rare strain of choice hops” and even registered it as a trade-mark, although Brewers Gold is widely available today. In this ad, a pair of pirates are holding (maybe burying) a chest of gold but on the sand with them is a ginormous glass of Ballantine Ale.

Ballantine-1958-pirates

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

Beer In Ads #2632: Bartenders For Ballantine’s Brewer’s Gold

May 6, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Sunday’s ad is for is by Ballantine Ale, from 1958. In the 1950s, Ballantine advertised the hop variety “Brewer’s Gold” as “a rare strain of choice hops” and even registered it as a trade-mark, although Brewers Gold is widely available today. In this ad, a bartender is showing off a ginormous glass of Ballantine Ale to a mountain man of some kind.

Ballantine-1958-bartender

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

Beer In Ads #2631: Pirates For Ballantine’s Brewer’s Gold

May 5, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Saturday’s ad is for is by Ballantine Ale, from 1958. In the 1950s, Ballantine advertised the hop variety “Brewer’s Gold” as “a rare strain of choice hops” and even registered it as a trade-mark, although Brewers Gold is widely available today. In this ad, a pirate appears to have found some liquid gold in the form of a ginormous glass of Ballantine Ale.

Ballantine-1958-pirate-time

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

Beer In Ads #2630: Conquistadors For Ballantine’s Brewer’s Gold

May 4, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Friday’s ad is for is by Ballantine Ale, from 1958. In the 1950s, Ballantine advertised the hop variety “Brewer’s Gold” as “a rare strain of choice hops” and even registered it as a trade-mark, although Brewers Gold is widely available today. In this ad, a conquistador appears to have found El Dorado, the fabled city of gold, and among the gold was te liquid kind, specificially a ginormous glass of Ballantine Ale.

Ballantine-1958-conquistador

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

Waxing Nostalgic Extemporaneously For The Next Session … Today!

May 4, 2018 By Jay Brooks

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For our 135th Session, our host will be Alistair Reece, who writes Fuggled. For his topic, he’s taking a look back in Sepia Tones, by which he challenges us to “indulge in a little beer nostalgia, a bit of personal beer history you might say.”

Until this morning, we were without a host, so a big thanks to Alistair for stepping up last minute and hosting. (That also means right now you should think about hosting June or beyond!) So understandably his topic is lean, although not so mean. Here are his instructions on participating:

What kind of things would be suitable topics for today? Well, here’s some suggestions:

  • Discontinued beers that you miss.
  • Breweries you once loved that are no longer around.
  • Beers that are simply not what they once were.
  • Your early steps in the world of beer drinking, whether craft or just in general.

There you have it, get melancholy, drag up memories of good times gone by, and join us in this month’s Session.

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So no time to waste, it’s already the first Friday of May, so time to start waxing nostalgic and write your session post today. Then post a link to your session post at the original announcement or I imagine you could tag him on Twitter, too. Either way, don’t delay. Time’s a wasting.

Filed Under: Beers, Breweries, Just For Fun, The Session Tagged With: Announcements, History

Beer In Ads #2629: Prospectors For Ballantine’s Brewer’s Gold

May 3, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is for is by Ballantine Ale, from 1958. In the 1950s, Ballantine advertised the hop variety “Brewer’s Gold” as “a rare strain of choice hops” and even registered it as a trade-mark, although Brewers Gold is widely available today. In this ad, a Prospector is in a cave, panning for gold (which is odd, because usually you pan in a river or stream, but he must have said the magic words, “It’s the Genuine,” and a glass of liquid gold appeared to him. Or maybe he’s starting to hallucinate, which would at least explain why he’s panning for gold without a water around.

Ballantine-1958-prospector

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

Beer In Ads #2628: Cowboys For Ballantine’s Brewer’s Gold

May 2, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad is for is by Ballantine Ale, from 1957. In the 1950s, Ballantine advertised the hop variety “Brewer’s Gold” as “a rare straion of choice hops” and even registered it as a trade-mark, although Brewers Gold is widely available today. In this ad, a Cowboy is out in the desert, sitting on a chest of gold, but seems most happy about that ginormous glass of beer that’s appeared before him like an oasis, as he recites the magic words, “It’s the Genuine.”

Ballantine-1958-cowboy-2

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

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