Monday’s ad is for Pabst Blue Ribbon, from May 1942. This one involves a ping pong, err … table tennis, match and was created by well-known illustrator Albert Dorne. Using the Pabst tagline about 33 to 1, that’s also the score in the game, which sparks a bit of a goofy discussion.
CraftBeer.com, the consumer website for the Brewers Association released today the results of an online poll that took place in the last half of August. Here’s how they arrived at the 2013 Great American Beer Bar Selected by CraftBeer.com Readers. “CraftBeer.com asked readers to nominate their favorite craft beer bars in the country, and received over 5,000 nominations, a 117 percent increase from last year. The choices were then narrowed down to the 10 most nominated bars in each of the five regions of the country. Over 37,000 votes were cast in total, a 23 percent increase from last year, resulting in the top three overall and regional winners. Voting was conducted from August 19 until August 30.” I’ve never been to any of the top three, so I guess I’ve got some travel plans to make.
The overall winners were roughly on the eastern half of the country.
The Pacific (west coast) winners are as follows:
Great to see the Toronado making the list.
Today’s infographic is an interesting one, created by Olivia Vander Tuig at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, during the Spring of this year, in collaboration with Annie-Locke Scherer and Madelyn Willey. The infographic compares the beer brands Pabst Blue Ribbon, Guinness, Miller High Life, and Heineken, and was made as a companion for a travel studio about branding and factory experience called Behind the Brand.
Click here to see the infographic full size. You can also download a much larger version from dropbox.
For our 80th Session, our host is Derek Harrison, who writes online at It’s Not Just the Alcohol Talking. His topic for this session asks bloggers to weigh in on the question that pundits and business analysts have been asking and answering frequently in recent months, Is Craft Beer a Bubble?
It’s a good time to be in the craft beer industry. The big brewers are watching their market share get chipped away by the purveyors of well-made lagers and ales. Craft breweries are popping up like weeds.
This growth begs the question: is craft beer a bubble? Many in the industry are starting to wonder when, and more importantly how, the growth is going to stop. Is craft beer going to reach equilibrium and stabilize, or is the bubble just going to keep growing until it bursts?
So on Friday, October 4, let us know where you stand on the bursting bubble hypothesis. Is the bubble precarious and ready to pop any second or as solid as a glass ball?
Today’s infographic is a mouthful: Private-Label, Craft Beers See Sales Growth. You probably already know this, by private label beers are beers produced under a generic or unique brand name by a brewery to be sold exclusively at a particular store, or more often chain of stores. The infographic was created by Supermarket News.
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Today’s infographic is entitled Learn About Beer and features a seemingly random assortment of beery factoids.
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Friday’s ad is for Pabst Blue Ribbon, from April 1942. It’s a bowling themed ad, a popular sport in beer ads, at least up until the 1960s or 70s. The man bowling didn’t convert a split, sailing the ball between two pins, placing his 200 game in jeopardy, apparently. Luckily using some pretty tortured 33 to 1 logic, he managed to make his 200 game and beat the competition by 20 points.
Today’s infographic is another one created by Eddie’s Alehouse in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, this one showing a list of kinds of beer, with their range of color plotted on a chart, divided by ales and lagers.
Thursday’s ad is for Schmidt’s of Philadelphia, from around the 1960s. Showing a couple preparing for a party, the husband is pulling one beautiful beer — Schmidt’s, naturally — out of the refrigerator.
Today’s infographic was created by Eddie’s Alehouse in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, showing many of the types of beer they carry on a chart showing where each falls on two axis, one for fruity and malty, and the other sweet and bitter.
