Monday’s ad is a 1949 ad for Rheingold Beer, featuring Miss Rheingold for that year, Pat McElroy. In the ad, Miss McElroy is holding the trophy she and her dog have just won. Based on her outfit, I think Miss Rheingold must have been a Green Bay Packers fan.
Monday’s ad is a 1948 ad for Rheingold Beer, featuring Miss Rheingold for that year, Pat Quinlan. In the ad, Miss Quinlan is on board a boat of some kind, hoisting maritime signal flags spelling out “D-R-Y,” as in Rheingold Extra Dry.
The August 2011 standings will soon be released for Wikio’s Beer Blogs. This month there’s a new sheriff in town, who leapfrogged over Jeff, from Beervana, and me as we were do si do-ing around the beer blogging dance floor earlier this year. Congratulations to the folks at The New School as they ascend to the top spot. Here’s what happened to the Top 30 over last month:
| 1 | The New School (+2) |
| 2 | Brewpublic (+2) |
| 3 | Beervana (-1) |
| 4 | Brookston Beer Bulletin (-3) |
| 5 | Appellation Beer: Beer From a Good Home (+2) |
| 6 | Drink With The Wench (+4) |
| 7 | A Good Beer Blog (-2) |
| 8 | The Daily Pull (+1) |
| 9 | Washington Beer Blog (-1) |
| 10 | The Not So Professional Beer Blog (+6) |
| 11 | The Stone Blog (-5) |
| 12 | BetterBeerBlog (+11) |
| 13 | Brewer’s Log (Blog) (+8) |
| 14 | KC Beer Blog (=) |
| 15 | The Brew Lounge (+2) |
| 16 | The Brew Site (+16) |
| 17 | Hoosier Beer Geek (+8) |
| 18 | Oakshire Brewing (-5) |
| 19 | Seattle Beer News (+9) |
| 20 | The Session Beer Project™ (-5) |
| 21 | It’s Pub Night (-10) |
| 22 | Seen Through a Glass (-10) |
| 23 | Craft Austin (-4) |
| 24 | Top Fermented (+5) |
| 25 | The Potable Curmudgeon (-3) |
| 26 | San Diego Beer Blog (-8) |
| 27 | Beer at 6512 (-3) |
| 28 | Musings Over a Pint (-2) |
| 29 | Beer-Stained Letter (+13) |
| 30 | I Love Beer (+11) |
Ranking made by Wikio
As usual, I included the relative movements of each blog from last month. Last month — and for the past few — movement among the top of the list was limited and things were fairly static. All that’s changed this month, as only one of the top 30 is in the same position as last month, and only three moved up or down only one spot. That means of the remaining 26, each one moved at least two spots along the continuum. Things are shaking up.
This month’s champion mover was The Brew Site, who jumped 16 places. As always, I continue to stress that this is just a bit of fun and that we shouldn’t take it too seriously. Until next month ….
Today in 1876, Colorado became the 38th state.
Colorado
Colorado Breweries
Colorado Brewery Guides
Guild: Colorado Brewers Guild
State Agency: Colorado Liquor Enforcement Division
Package Mix:
Beer Taxes:
Economic Impact (2010):
Legal Restrictions:
Data complied, in part, from the Beer Institute’s Brewer’s Almanac 2010, Beer Serves America, the Brewers Association, Wikipedia and my World Factbook. If you see I’m missing a brewery link, please be so kind as to drop me a note or simply comment on this post. Thanks.
For the remaining states, see Brewing Links: United States.
After we marched from McMenamin’s Crystal Ballroom to the Tom McCall Waterfront Park and the Oregon Brewers Festival, the ceremonial keg was brought into the park by the Hammerheads from this year’s parade host brewery, McMenamin’s.
Hammerheads and the ceremonial cask.
The Hammerheads and the Ruby Witches McMenamins’ folks positioned themselves in front of the stage.
Then Art Larrance got things started.
This year’s parade host represented by Brian McMenamin, took the ceremonial hammer.
And passed it off to next year’s host, the Cascade Barrel House.
Then Grand Marshall Fred Eckhardt had a few words for the crowd, before tapping the first keg.
Fred, tapping the keg.
Fred drinking the first toast to OBF 2011.
Fred and me catching up with a pint after the ceremonies.
Our 79th Guinness uses the tagline “Opening Time Is Guinness Time.” In this case, the opening refers to the oyster, with a smiling pint of Guinness resting inside. The slogan at the bottom is the common “Guinness is good for you.” My one question, is since when did oysters have eyes?
Friday’s ad is a 1951 ad for Rheingold Beer, featuring Miss Rheingold for that year, Elise Gammon. In the ad, Miss Gammon is ready for the hunt, surrounded by hound dogs. Did Americans ever do the full British fox hunts? Because old ads sure seem to use the theme a lot.
Thursday’s ad is a 1956 ad for Rheingold Beer, featuring Miss Rheingold for that year, Millie Merritt. In the ad, Miss Merritt is wearing an exotic red dress sitting in the old barn with her squeeze box accordion, waiting for the performance, as the sign behind her promises, to take place “tonig.”
Although I missed last year’s Oregon Brewers Festival for the first time in many years, it felt like it had been at least five years since I’d been back. That’s how much I missed Portland, and I was thrilled to be there again. After the Brewer’s Dinner Wednesday night, I attended the brunch, this year held at McMenamin’s Crystal Ballroom, and helped setup for the event beforehand, as well. After everyone feasted and prepared their stomachs for the day’s drinking, what looked to be close to 1200 people lined up for the parade. That’s just a guess, but it was easily the biggest crowd I’d seen for the parade, and this was my third time, of the five so far. Many of the usual suspects were there, the band, the Rogue Friars, people in kilts, people wearing literal hopheads, etc. This year’s Grand Marshall was Portland legend Fred Eckhardt who led the parade via pedicab down to the Tom McCall Waterfront Park, the annual home of the beer festival. Here are some photos from the parade. Enjoy.
Pedicab leading the OBF Parade with Grand Marshall Fred Eckhardt and OBF founder Art Larrance.
Here we come.
… walking down the street,
We get the funniest looks from …
Everyone we meet.
After arriving at the festival grounds, it was time to tap the keg and officially start the festival. Look for the ceremonies coming soon in part 2.
Wednesday’s ad is a 1948 ad for Rheingold Beer, featuring Miss Rheingold for that year, Pat Quinlan. In the ad, Miss Quinlan is carrying two baskets with three puppies and kittens in each. With the garden in the background, it almost looks like she’s just come back from picking them.
