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Beer Birthday: Ken Allen

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Today is also the birthday of Ken Allen, former owner of Anderson Valley Brewing. Ken sold the brewery and retired to Belize, at least during part of the year. Join me in wishing Ken a very happy birthday.

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Owner Ken Allen, former AVBC salesman Ed Chainey, me, Ralph Woodall, from HopUnion and Ken’s former wife.

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Celebrator publisher Tom Dalldorf (whose birthday is also today) with Ken at the 2006 Boonville Beer Festival.

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Ken, with Larry Bell, from Bell’s Brewing, along with Ed and Carol Stoudt, from Stoudt’s Brewing, at the Craft Brewers Conference in Austin, Texas, in 2007.

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Ken with new Anderson Valley Brewery owner Trey White at last year’s CBC in Chicago.

Beer In Ads #392: There’s Fun A-Field With Rheingold!

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Wednesday’s ad is from 1959 and is for Rheingold beer. It features a formal horse riding outing and Miss Rheingold for that year, Robbin Bain, the 19th woman to hold the title. The tagline for the ad is “There’s Fun A-Field With Rheingold!” Personally, I don’t know how much fun you could have in such stiff attire, but I’m not much of a horse person anyway.

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Arkansas Beer

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Today in 1836, Arkansas became the 25th state.

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Arkansas Breweries

Arkansas Brewery Guides

Guild: Arkansas Brewers Association

State Agency: Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Division

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  • Capital: Little Rock
  • Largest Cities: Little Rock, Fort Smith, North Little Rock, Fayetteville, Jonesboro
  • Population: 2,673,400; 33rd
  • Area: 53182 sq.mi., 29th
  • Nickname: The Natural State
  • Statehood: 25th, June 15, 1836

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  • Alcohol Legalized: December 5, 1933
  • Number of Breweries: 4
  • Rank: 48th
  • Beer Production: 1,857,115
  • Production Rank: 34th
  • Beer Per Capita: 20.2 Gallons

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Package Mix:

  • Bottles: 26%
  • Cans: 69.3%
  • Kegs: 4.6%

Beer Taxes (Under 5%):

  • Per Gallon: $0.24
  • Per Case: $0.53
  • Tax Per Barrel (24/12 Case): $7.27
  • Draught Tax Per Barrel (in Kegs): $7.27
  • 1% excise tax upon all retail receipts derived from the sale of beer (for child care development fund and plastic greater than 24 ounces. education programs)

Beer Taxes (Over 5%):

  • Per Gallon: $0.20
  • Per Case: $0.45
  • Tax Per Barrel (24/12 Case): $6.20
  • Draught Tax Per Barrel (in Kegs): $6.20
  • 1% excise tax upon all retail receipts derived from the sale of beer (for child care development fund and plastic greater than 24 ounces. education programs)

Economic Impact (2010):

  • From Brewing: $58,485,135
  • Direct Impact: $304,251,893
  • Supplier Impact: $118,438,145
  • Induced Economic Impact: $155,562,087
  • Total Impact: $578,252,125

Legal Restrictions:

  • Control State: No
  • Sale Hours: On Premises: 7 a.m.–2 a.m. (Class A Private Club)
    10 a.m.–5 a.m. (Class B Private Club)
    7 a.m.–1 a.m. (Restaurant)
    Off Premises: 7 a.m.–1 a.m. (Mon.–Fri.)
    7 a.m.–midnight (Sat.)
  • Grocery Store Sales: Yes
  • Notes: Has numerous dry counties and other dry areas, but private clubs can serve even in dry areas.
    Alcohol sales are generally prohibited on Sundays, but exceptions can be made through local option (usually for restaurants and private clubs).
    No sales on Christmas Day.

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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.

Beer In Art #131: John Quinton Pringle’s Man with a Drinking Mug

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This week’s work of art is by a Scottish artist, John Quinton Pringle, who around 1904 painted Study of a Head, which is also known as Man With a Drinking Mug.

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Here’s how the National Gallery of Scotland, where the painting is hung, describes Pringle and the work:

Pringle trained as an optician in 1874 and ran his own business as optician and electrician from 1896 to 1923. He used his shop as a studio after hours painting predominantly small canvases, like this painting. From around 1895 he developed an interest in French Impressionism, which influenced this work. This is one of three portraits Pringle made of an elderly man who frequented the Saltmarket area of Glasgow and visited the artist in his shop. The sitter was nicknamed ‘Kruger’ due to his supposed likeness to Paul Kruger, the Boer resistance leader and president of the Transvaal republic in South Africa. The painting is thought to date from 1904 – it is signed and dated but Pringle’s style makes it difficult to read.

You can read Pringle’s biography at Wikipedia and see a few more of his paintings at the WikiGallery and there are links to even more of his paintings at ArtCyclopedia.

Guinness Ad #72: Fishing

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Our 72nd Guinness ad is again from the “Guinness For Strength” series, with a fisherman reeling in a whale-sized fish, presumably thanks to the pint of Guinness sitting next to his chair. The fish looks every bit as surprised, even a little scared, as the dog and the fisherman.

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And here’s a slightly different variation of the ad.

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Beer In Ads #388: The Bud Hair Flip

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Thursday’s ad is a 1960 ad for Budweiser. It’s yet another in the “Where there’s life … there’s Bud” series. In the ad, apparently the sound of beer being poured into a glass is enough to turn her head fast enough that her hair flips around and the expression on her face screams “surprise!”

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