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Beer In Ads #2782: Come Along With Me …

October 3, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad is for Genesee Beer, which was founded in Rochester, New York, originally along the Genesee River, but in 1878 they moved up into Rochester proper. Their Genesee Cream Ale, in the simple green can, was one of our go-to beers when I was in high school. Since 2009, the brewery has been part of North American Breweries. This ad, from the 1950s, features a ginormous can of Genesee Beer on a raft in a lake, next to a woman fishing. Below is the simple tagline “have a Genesee!”

Genesee-1950s-fishing

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Genesee, History

Beer In Ads #2781: Cross-Country Hops

October 2, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Tuesday’s ad is for Genesee Beer, which was founded in Rochester, New York, originally along the Genesee River, but in 1878 they moved up into Rochester proper. Their Genesee Cream Ale, in the simple green can, was one of our go-to beers when I was in high school. Since 2009, the brewery has been part of North American Breweries. This ad, from 1970, features a can of Genesee Beer next to a full weirdly squat stemmed glass of beer. The background is a hop field near harvest time with the tagline “We do everything to bring you beer.”

Genesee-1970-cross-country-hops

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Genesee, History, Hops

Beer In Ads #2780: We Take It From Here To Beer

October 1, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Monday’s ad is for Genesee Beer, which was founded in Rochester, New York, originally along the Genesee River, but in 1878 they moved up into Rochester proper. Their Genesee Cream Ale, in the simple green can, was one of our go-to beers when I was in high school. Since 2009, the brewery has been part of North American Breweries. This ad, from 1970, features a can of Genesee Beer next to a full glass of beer. The background is a field of barley with the tagline “We take it from here to beer.”

genesee-1970s

Genesee-1970-we-take-it

Filed Under: Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Genesee, History

Beer In Ads #2779: For Real Enjoyment Break Open This Page

September 30, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Sunday’s ad is for Schaefer Beer, “first produced in New York City during 1842 by the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company.” This ad, from 1957, features a background that is designed to look like just another page in the newspaper, but with a case of Schaefer beer, and a pair of hands trying to open the case and get to the cans of beer. I guess the idea was that you’d turn the page and it would look so real you’d try to grab a beer off the page.

Schaefer-1957-newsprint

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, History, Schaefer

Beer In Ads #2778: Make Mine Schaefer

September 29, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Saturday’s ad is for Schaefer Beer, “first produced in New York City during 1842 by the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company.” This ad, from 1939, features an older, smiling “Coach-type” of bartender filling a glass of beer from a tap. It’s a shame that bartenders no longer routinely wear bow-ties. I guess John Holl missed his calling.

Schaefer-1939-make-mine

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, History, Schaefer

Beer In Ads #2777: Schaefer Centennial

September 28, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Friday’s ad is for Schaefer Beer, “first produced in New York City during 1842 by the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company.” This ad, from 1942, features an illustration of their first brewery in 1842 to celebrate their 100th anniversary.

Schaefer-1942-centennial

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, History, Schaefer

Beer In Ads #2776: You Can’t Beat It!

September 27, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is for Schaefer Beer, “first produced in New York City during 1842 by the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company.” This ad, from 1946, features a Sousaphone player wearing a band uniform and drinking a beer. “You Can’t Beat It!” he seems to be saying, but I’m not sure if he’s talking about playing in a band or drinking a beer while playing in a band. This takes me back to my high school days when over the summers, I played in a semi-pro marching band where we were paid to march in fireman’s parades, and afterwards there was usually kegs of beer for us.

Schaefer-1946-sousaphone

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, History, Music, Schaefer

Beer In Ads #2775: Glass After Glass After Glass

September 26, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad is for Schaefer Beer, “first produced in New York City during 1842 by the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company.” This ad, from 1950, features Schaefer’s then-new beer Pale Dry, “So light … so dry glass after glass after glass.” Behind the glass of beer are several roadmaps (so kids, before there was Google Maps or GPS people used roadmaps to drive from one place to another) for vacation destinations like New Jersey, New York State, or New England. I guess the idea is that Pale Dry is so pale you can read a map through it?

Schaefer-1950-maps

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, History, Schaefer

Beer In Ads #2774: Line’s Busy!

September 25, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Tuesday’s ad is for Schaefer Beer, “first produced in New York City during 1842 by the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company.” This ad, from 1941, features a simple line of Schaefer Light Beer bottles with the tagline, “Line’s Busy!”

1941-Schaefer-Beer-bottle-lineup-photo-vintage-print

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, History, Schaefer

Beer In Ads #2773: Schaefer For The More Than One Beer Man

September 24, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Monday’s ad is for Schaefer Beer, “first produced in New York City during 1842 by the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company.” This ad, from 1971, features a close-up illustration of a man pitching a softball. Since the playoffs for MLB are around the corner, this might get you in the mood.

Schaefer-1971-softball-2

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Baseball, History, Schaefer, Sports

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