Our 116th Guinness ad shows the intrepid zookeeper in his home surrounded by eight of his zoo animals, as if they live there when the zoo is closed. The seal is serving the zookeeper a Guinness on a tray as he relaxes on a comfy chair, legs up on a turtle. The tagline, “Guinness is welcome in the home” must have been advertising bottled product for sale.
Friday’s ad is the fourth, and final, in our series of ads for Lucky Lager, brewed in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. This ad shows the “age-dated beer” being enjoyed in Alaska. You can tell because he’s wearing a parka and there’s a toem pole in the background. Actually, it says so on the copy, it could have been anywhere in the west, really.
Thursday’s ad is the third in our series of ads for Lucky Lager, brewed in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. This ad shows the “age-dated beer” being enjoyed in a wooded setting by someone dressed as a lumberjack, as far as I can tell. “He cuts down trees, he eats his lunch, he goes to the lavatory ….”
Wednesday’s ad is the second in our series of ads for Lucky Lager, brewed in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. This ad shows the “age-dated beer” being enjoyed on what I’m guessing is a hunting trip in the woods.
Today in 1980, Zimbabwe gained their Independence from the UK.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Breweries
Zimbabwe Brewery Guides
Other Guides
Guild: None Known
National Regulatory Agency: None
Beverage Alcohol Labeling Requirements: Not Known
Drunk Driving Laws: BAC 0.08%
Alcohol Consumption By Type:
Alcohol Consumption Per Capita (in litres):
WHO Alcohol Data:
Patterns of Drinking Score: 4
Prohibition: None
Tuesday’s ad is the beginning of a series of ads for Lucky Lager, brewed in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. This ad shows the “age-dated beer” being enjoyed on some sort of ranch in the desert.
Today in 1946, the French Mandate of Syria ended, giving Syria their Independence.
Syria
Syria Breweries
Syria Brewery Guides
Other Guides
Guild: None Known
National Regulatory Agency: None
Beverage Alcohol Labeling Requirements: Not Known
Drunk Driving Laws: BAC 0.05%
Alcohol Consumption By Type:
Alcohol Consumption Per Capita (in litres):
WHO Alcohol Data:
Patterns of Drinking Score: 2
Prohibition: None
This is my sixth annual annotated list of the Top 50 so you can see who moved up and down, who was new to the list and who dropped off. So here is this year’s list again annotated with how they changed compared to last year.
Some new companies made the list, one from a merger — Gordon Biersch and Rock Bottom — now CraftWorks Breweries & Restaurants, along with Bear Republic, Blue Point, Lost Coast (which had been on the list two years ago), Narragansett and Ninkasi.
Off the list was Straub, Independent Brewers United (IBU), which was swallowed up by North American Breweries, Kona Brewing, which was folded into the Craft Brewers Alliance, and individually Gordon Biersch and Rock Bottom were combined into CraftWorks Breweries & Restaurants.
If you want to see the previous annotated lists for comparison, here is 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2006.
The Brewers Association has also just announced the top 50 breweries in the U.S. based on sales, by volume, for 2011. This includes all breweries, regardless of size or other parameters. Here is the new list:
Here is this year’s press release.
The Brewers Association just announced the top 50 breweries in the U.S. based on sales, by volume, for 2011, which is listed below here. For the fifth year, they’ve also released a list of the top 50 craft breweries based on the new definition adopted by the Brewers Association a few years ago, and updated earlier this year. Here is the new craft brewery list:
Five breweries are new to this year’s Top 50 Craft Breweries list; Anderson Valley, Founder’s, Four Peaks, Left Hand and Smuttynose. Here is this year’s press release.
I’ll have my annual annotated list shortly.