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Beer In Ads #1340: Saturday Afternoon At Sportsman’s Park

October 11, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Saturday’s ad is another one from the United Brewers Industrial Foundation, from 1945. This was the year before the “Beer Belongs” series began. These were similar, and used the “Beer Belongs” tagline, but were unnumbered stand-alones. They each featured a painting by a well-known artist or illustrator of the day, along with many of the elements that would later appear in the “Home Life in America” series. In this ad, the painting is called “Saturday Afternoon at Sportsman’s Park,” by artist Edward Laning. Seemed like the perfect ad after the Giant’s victory in game 1 today, plus it is Saturday, of course.

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And here’s a close up of Laning’s artwork.

SaturdayAfternoon at Sportsman's Park by Edward Laning, close-up of artwork

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

Beer In Ads #1339: Harvest Time

October 10, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Friday’s ad is another one from the United Brewers Industrial Foundation, from 1945. This was the year before the “Beer Belongs” series began. These were similar, and used the “Beer Belongs” tagline, but were unnumbered stand-alones. They each featured a painting by a well-known artist or illustrator of the day, along with many of the elements that would later appear in the “Home Life in America” series. In this ad, the painting is called “Harvest Time,” by artist Doris Lee.

Harvest Time by Doris Lee, 1945

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

Beer In Ads #1338: Western Barbecue

October 9, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is another one from the United Brewers Industrial Foundation, from 1945. This was the year before the “Beer Belongs” series began. These were similar, and used the “Beer Belongs” tagline, but were unnumbered stand-alones. They each featured a painting by a well-known artist or illustrator of the day, along with many of the elements that would later appear in the “Home Life in America” series. In this ad, the painting is called “Western Barbecue,” by artist Fletcher Martin.

Western Barbecue by Fletcher Martin, 1945

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers, Food & Beer Tagged With: Advertising, Brewers Association, Food, History

Beer In Ads #1337: Sailing In California Waters

October 8, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad is another one from the United Brewers Industrial Foundation, from 1945. This was the year before the “Beer Belongs” series began. These were similar, and used the “Beer Belongs” tagline, but were unnumbered stand-alones. They each featured a painting by a well-known artist or illustrator of the day, along with many of the elements that would later appear in the “Home Life in America” series. In this ad, the painting is called “Sailing in California Waters,” by artist Julien Binford, who did at least one additional ad in this series.

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

Beer In Ads #1336: Ski Trail

October 7, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Tuesday’s ad is another one from the United Brewers Industrial Foundation, from 1945. This was the year before the “Beer Belongs” series began. These were similar, and used the “Beer Belongs” tagline, but were unnumbered stand-alones. They each featured a painting by a well-known artist or illustrator of the day, along with many of the elements that would later appear in the “Home Life in America” series. In this ad, the painting is called “Ski Trail,” by artist Marianne Appel.

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

Beer In Ads #1335: Quail Hunt

October 6, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Monday’s ad is another one from the United Brewers Industrial Foundation, from 1945. This was the year before the “Beer Belongs” series began. These were similar, and used the “Beer Belongs” tagline, but were unnumbered stand-alones. They each featured a painting by a well-known artist or illustrator of the day, along with many of the elements that would later appear in the “Home Life in America” series. In this ad, the painting is called “Quail Hunt,” by artist Julien Binford.

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

Beer In Ads #1333: This Book Isn’t Worth Reading …

October 4, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Saturday’s ad is another one from the United States Brewers Foundation, this one from 1941. As far as I know this one’s not from a specific series. The point of the ad is that for one book not worth reading you wouldn’t tear down an entire library, and likewise you wouldn’t condemn the entire beer industry for a few bad retailers. Of course, that’s exactly what prohibitionists due, extrapolating any behavior as not reflecting on the bad actor, but on the industry as a whole.

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

Beer In Ads #1332: How Does The Brewing Industry Compare To Other Industries As A Taxpayer?

October 3, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Friday’s ad is another one from the United States Brewers Foundation, from 1951. This a series of ads they did in 1951 using a Q&A format aimed at highlighting different positive aspects of beer and the brewing industry.

Q
How does the Brewing Industry compare to other industries as a taxpayer?

A
It ranks fourth in excise taxes alone, which amounts to almost $700,000,000 annually.

And as the ad points out, that’s in addition to “the many millions in property, income and corporation taxes paid” by breweries, not to mention state excise taxes.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Brewers Association, History, Taxes

Beer In Ads #1331: How Much Does The Brewing Industry Pay In State Excise Taxes?

October 2, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is another one from the United States Brewers Foundation, from 1951. This a series of ads they did in 1951 using a Q&A format aimed at highlighting different positive aspects of beer and the brewing industry.

Q
How much does the Brewing Industry pay in state excise taxes?

A
Last year, state excise taxes on beer amounted to over $193 million.

And that’s in addition to the over $700 million in federal excise taxes, plus all of the other business taxes that every business pays.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Brewers Association, History, Taxes

Beer In Ads #1328: What Products, Besides Beer, Come From The Brewing Industry?

September 29, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Monday’s ad is another one from the United States Brewers Foundation, from 1951. This a series of ads they did in 1951 using a Q&A format aimed at highlighting different positive aspects of beer and the brewing industry.

Q
What products, besides beer, come from the Brewing Industry?

A
Vitamins, yeast and cattle feeds are important industry by-products.

Apparently brewing yeast is the best source of B vitamins every found, and it even may have rid the world of pellagra, “the dread diet-deficiency disease” that I’ve never heard of, although it persists in Africa, Indonesia, North Korea and China. Then there’s also spent grain given as feed for livestock, as common then as now.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Brewers Association, Health & Beer, History

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