Today’s infographic is entitled Types of Beer, though it shows just eight varieties, four lagers and four ales. It was created by Six Degrees Brewing, a new, in planning brewery, in Rapid City, South Dakota.
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Tuesday’s Christmas Eve ad is for Schlitz, from 1952. It’s a beautiful illustration of an attractive woman carrying a tray with two beers on it caught beneath some mistletoe just as a dashing young man leans in, presumably to exact the kiss demanded of being under the mistletoe. Hoppy Holidays. You can see the artwork alone on my Beer in Art Tumblr.
Today’s infographic comes from a story in the HuffPo entitled The Secret History Of The War On Public Drinking, which includes some surprising details. For example, while I think most people believe that drinking in public has been illegal almost forever, ordinances banning public drinking didn’t start being enacted until around 1975. Only about 2% of Americans live in a place which allows public drinking, which is odd when you consider it’s perfectly legal unless a state, town or municipality decides to actively ban it. More backroom mischief by the prohibitionists is more like it. The map below shows where you can and can’t have a beer in your hand in a public place.
While no one in their right mind condones driving drunk, a fact utterly lost on prohibitionists like MADD and Alcohol Justice, I thought the latest video PSA from the OLCC (Oregon Liquor Control Commission) was a clever holiday video employing holiday music and lights showing nearly two-dozen synonyms for being drunk. I wonder if they got these from my list of around 5,000 Drunk Words? Please be safe this holiday season.
Monday’s holiday ad is for Schlitz, from 1966. I guess it’s a humorous ad, but not to George. While wrapping George’s gift of a six-pack of Schlitz — George is not this guy’s best friend, presumably — he decides to drink one of the cans of beer, thinking to himself. “I wonder if George will mind getting a 5-Pak.” Yes, I think he will. But I think what George will mind most of all is getting such a shitty present to begin with. Sheesh.
Earlier today I was on NPR for an hour-segment of KQED Forum, along with master cicerone Nicole Erny and 21st Amendment brewmaster and co-founder Shaun O’Sullivan. The host was Dave Iverson and although they titled the show The Year in Beer, we really covered a wide range of topics on beer more generally.
We talked for about an hour, and easily could have kept going all day long, especially if we’d had beer to drink. If you missed it live, you can hear the whole thing by pressing the gold triangle above. Enjoy.
Me, Dave Iverson, Shaun and Nicole at the KQED studios after the show.
Today’s infographic is entitled Hops: A Homebrewers’ Guide, and was created by the Brew Beer Blog. It’s a chart of two dozen hop varieties with some of their basic characteristics.
Sunday’s holiday ad is for Budweiser, from 1959. Part of Bud’s “Where There’s Life … There’s Bud” series, the ad shows a woman who’s busy wrapping presents, while an unseen hand is pouring her a beer. See the delight on her face? I also love the ad copy for this one. “Just a warm wish to you and yours for a happy, perfectly wonderful Holiday Season.” Even back in the late 1950s the war against Xmas was raging. “Holiday Season?” Bah.
Today’s infographic takes a look at how much money you could save by making your own beer at home. In makes some assumption, then goes through calculations of how much to costs to make versus buy beer. It was created by Dimespring, a financial website.
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Saturday’s ad is for Boswell’s Ales & Porter, from early last century. A Canadian beer brand, beginning in 1909, it became part of National Breweries Limited, although it apparently Boswell’s originally opened in 1668, making it North America’s 2nd oldest brewery and Canada’s first (According to a 1910 newspaper ad).
