Tuesday’s ad is for Heilman’s Old Style, though it looks old it could easily be newer but designed to look that way. I love the ginormous beer can towering over the hills in the foreground, with even taller mountains in the distance. A beautiful picture, it’s too bad the beer wasn’t better.
Today’s beer video is part six, and the final part, of the film The American Brew that was produced by Anheuser-Busch’s Here’s To Beer campaign in 2008. The DVD is still actually available from Amazon. Enjoy.
Monday’s ad is for Hull’s Export Beer, from “Connecticut’s only brewery,” according to the ad. Hull Brewing was founded in 1852 by Ph. Fresenius, and was bought by the Hull family when Prohibition ended, but it later closed in 1977. At one point there were at least 22 breweries in New Haven, Connecticut, so this ad must be later, after all the rest had closed.
Today’s beer video is part five of the film The American Brew that was produced by Anheuser-Busch’s Here’s To Beer campaign in 2008. The DVD is still actually available from Amazon. Enjoy.
Sunday’s ad is for Feigenspan P.O.N. Ale, from sometime before 1943, which was when the Christian Feigenspan Brewing Co. was bought by Ballantine. P.O.N. stands for “Pride of Newark,” which is the in New Jersey city where the brewery was founded in 1875. I especially like the ad copy toward the bottom. “Don’t say a word … say P.O.N.”
Today’s beer video is part four of the film The American Brew that was produced by Anheuser-Busch’s Here’s To Beer campaign in 2008. The DVD is still actually available from Amazon. Enjoy.
Saturday’s ad is for San Miguel, from 1958. A smiling woman reaches out for a glass of Pale Pilsen, the most popular beer in the Philippines.
Today’s beer video is part three of the film The American Brew that was produced by Anheuser-Busch’s Here’s To Beer campaign in 2008. The DVD is still actually available from Amazon. Enjoy.
Friday’s ad is for Schlitz, from 1952. In this case the interruption that’s so pleasant is the little woman bringing her man, who’s busy working on the taxes, a beer. He certainly looks pleased. In my household it’s my wife doing the taxes, while I cheer her on from the sidelines, while both of us drink beer.
This is pretty cool news. Egypt’s minister of antiquities, Mohammed Ibrahim, is reporting today that a group of archeologists from Japan “have unearthed the tomb of an ancient beer brewer in the city of Luxor that is more than 3,000 years old.” According to Ibrahim, “the tomb dates back to the Ramesside period and belongs to the chief ‘maker of beer for gods of the dead’ who was also the head of a warehouse,” adding “that the walls of the tomb’s chambers contain ‘fabulous designs and colors, reflecting details of daily life … along with their religious rituals.'”
Inside the brewer’s tomb. [Photo: Supreme Council of Antiquities]
The Luxor tomb “is home to a large and famous temple complex built by Amenhotep III and later by Rameses II. The “Japanese team found the tomb during work on another tomb belonging to a top official under Pharaoh Amenhotep III, who died around 1354 BC.” See the BBC for the full story, though there’s not too much about it yet. Apparently, after it’s fully excavated they plan on opening it to visitors. Now that’s a vacation I’d sign up for.
A wall inside the brewer’s tomb. [Photo: Supreme Council of Antiquities]