Brew Biz: Werts and All
By Ken Carman
This month’s topic: entering your beer for competition
Beer Ad: Schultz and Dooley
Beer Facts
This column is dedicated to things The Professor discovers along the way to researching other things related to beer. It will appear randomly, depending upon when material presents itself.
Surely you remember…
But did you know it was started by the Griesedieck brothers who brewed beer? The Wiki entry is a little contradictory, insinuating that they made this during the Depression but closed their doors in 1920: long before the Depression. The some of Griesediecks eventually ran Falstaff and may have had cnnections with AB. (Once again, Wiki is unclear.)
Interesting sidebar: the original recipe for root beer was proven carcinogenic and outlawed long before cigarettes.
Beer and Television: Perfectly Tuned In
Early beer advertising icons: Utica Club’s Schultz and Dooley and Black Label’s Mabel
Written by Carl H. Miller
“Beer makers have been searching for the perfect beer commercial nearly since television exploded onto the American scene in the late 1940s. In those pioneer days, nobody–not the advertisers, not the ad agencies, not the TV stations–knew exactly what made for a good commercial. Indeed, the earliest beer commercials consisted of everything from live demonstrations of how to cook a Welsh rarebit using beer to the noisy rumble of a studio audience muddling through a rendition of the brewer’s theme song.”
“Surprisingly, it was not the nation’s largest beer makers who led the brewing industry’s charge into television. Rather, most of TV’s pioneer beer advertisers were regional brewers. In 1945, New England’s Narragansett Beer sponsored the first telecasts of Boston Red Sox games, though neither the brewery nor the baseball team seemed overly confident about the then-infant medium. In fact, Sox management granted Narragansett the sponsorship rights free of charge, telling brewery officials, ‘We don’t know what we’re doing, and neither do you.'”
Beer Profile: EKU 28
The Professor apologizes. One of Mr. Becham’s reviews seems to have been hidden in his box by a server he was unfamiliar with at the time. Here’s to reading even more in the future.
Reviewed by Tom Becham
Beer Profile: Troubadour Obscura Mild Stout
Reviewed by Ye Olde Scribe
Continue reading “Beer Profile: Troubadour Obscura Mild Stout”
Beer Profile: McSorley’s Irish Pale Ale
Courtesy beeridiot.com
(YOS says: “Good site… but in this one case: BAD BEER.)
Reviewed by Ye Olde Scribe
Scummy to the Max
Written by Ye Olde Scribe
What NOT To Do After Drinking Beer
Brit in death plunge after beer festival
A British reveler died after plunging from a hotel window following a day’s heavy boozing at a German beer festival.
Police believe he had stepped on to a sixth-floor window ledge to go to the toilet and lost his balance.The 25-year-old victim, a shipbuilder from Plymouth, was part of a group of British workmates visiting the Oktoberfest in Munich.
Police – who would identify him only as Richard O for legal reasons – said he died instantly.
Spokesman Christoph Reichenbach said: “The man returned to the hotel alone at around 4am on Sunday. All the indications are that he was very drunk.
“We believe he lost his way as he was trying to find his way back to his room. In order to relieve himself he’d opened a window and climbed on to the ledge.”
Police say his trousers had been undone when he plunged but were torn off by the speed of the fall.