Thursday’s ad is yet another one for Tiger Beer, from a nautical series of beautiful illustrations. This ship has “Cargo Is Securely Locked, Crew Have No Access To Keys” painted on the back of the ship. Damn, and I wanted to open one.
Happy Beer Day Iceland
Today’s infographic is entitled Happy Beer Day Iceland and although Beer Day in Iceland is actually March 1, today in 2006, the first microbrewery there opened. Created by Weemss, it’s mostly a history of beer, and (humorously) they misspelled Guinness.
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Visualizing Alcohol Use
Today’s infographic uses a simple graphic technique for Visualizing Alcohol Use, showing a variety of metrics using the same dot matrix.
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Beer In Ads #959: No Tiger Beer Left Onboard Overnight
Wednesday’s ad is another one for Tiger Beer, from a nautical series of beautiful illustrations. This ship has “No Tiger Beer Left Onboard Overnight” painted on its side. I wonder where they store it each evening? Or maybe the crew drinks it all every night?
The High Life: A Tower of Beer For Your Retirement
Today’s infographic is a funny one, created by Roth IRA to show just how much beer you could sock away if you “save just $1 per day starting at age 25.” I guess my tower would be significantly shorter. Called The Awesome Tower of Beer, which by age 70 would be 5,736 feet tall.
Beer In Ads #958: Warning: Anti-Climb Paint
Tuesday’s ad is for Tiger Beer, probably no more then a decade old, but it’s a beautiful illustration. I confess I had no idea what “anti-climb paint” was, but therein lies the jokes.
Beer Consumption Infographic
Today’s infographic shows Beer Consumption in the United States. It was created this year for Visual Toy Magazine, whatever that is.
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Beer In Ads #957: Six Appeal
Monday’s ad is for Colt 45, from probably the late 1960s or 1970s. Most of the malt liquors seemed to advertise its sex appeal — god knows why? — so the play on words with “six appeal” is at least a little clever. And how about that hard plastic six-pack holder. I can’t say I remember those, but they must have been used before the softer ones that are ubiquitous today.
Fighting The Beer Revolutionary War In The Next Session
For our 79th Session, our host is Adrian Dingle, better known online simply as Ding through his Dings Beer Blog. Not surprisingly, he’s decided to shake things up with a provocative topic, the USA versus Old World Beer Culture.
Anyone with any inkling of my online, in-person and blogging presence in the American beer world since 2000, will know that the whole of my beer experience in that time has been colored by, sits against the backdrop of, and forms the awkward juxtaposition to, my English beer heritage and what has been happening the USA in the last few years. Everyone knows that I have been very vocal about this for a very long time, so when it came to thinking about what would be a great “Session” topic, outside of session beer, it seemed like that there could be only one topic; “What the hell has America done to beer?,” a.k.a., “USA versus Old World Beer Culture.”
This probably won’t be pretty, and you’re probably not gonna like it much, but hey, what’s new?
So on Friday, September 6, let the battle begin. What do you think America has done to beer? And in comparison, what about England? Are we at war? Are we having a beer war? Or is the “special relationship” intact? Grab your musket, a pewter tankard of some session beer (however you define it!) along with your laptop, and let slip the dogs of beer war.
Time To Enter Our Beer Writing Contest
If you write about beer in print or online or broadcast, please consider joining over 100 of your colleagues in the newly reformed North American Guild of Beer Writers. Even if I can’t persuade you to join, if you’ve written something you’re proud of between July of last year and June 30 of this year, you should enter it in our NAGBW Writing Contest, which is open to non-members as well as guild members. Our goal is to raise the level of beer writing by rewarding the best efforts of our colleagues. “NAGBW’s awards honor the best beer and brewing industry coverage in seven categories. Journalism, feature writing, freelance authors, blogs and broadcast or published in print or online are eligible.” Don’t delay, because the deadline is coming up fast; it’s August 26.
The seven categories are for Best Book, Magazine Writing, Newspaper (Paid Circulation) Writing, Brewspaper/Free Zine Writing, Beer Blog, Beer and Food Writing, and Broadcast/Podcast. The cost to compete is $30 per entry (but only $15 for members — see, you should join).
Submit your entry or entries online through our partner Submittable by next Monday, August 26. Again, that’s for work published or broadcast between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013. Online submissions are accepted at submittable.com, and print books may be mailed to: Lucy Saunders, Attn: NAGBW Awards, 4230 N. Oakland Ave. #178, Shorewood, WI 53211.
If you have any questions, contact www.nagbw.org via our website, drop me a line, or simply comment here. Award winners will be announced during GABF, date and time to be announced shortly. Perhaps I’ll see you there?