Last Chance to Go Guinness! (Remember, my entry code is DASH)
One final reminder, if you were interested in participating in helping Guinness the stout get into Guinness the book, this is your last chance. (Remember, too, you’ll help me earn a little money and...
View ArticleSoHo Trees Hacked in Front of Heineken Billboard
SOHO — The Parks Department is hunting for the mystery hatchet man who illegally cut off the tops of a pair of trees that obscured a Tribeca Film Festival and Heineken billboard in SoHo, officials...
View ArticleHeineken Offers to Replace Chopped Trees in Front of SoHo Billboard
Heineken Offers to Replace Chopped Trees in Front of SoHo BillboardMANHATTAN — Just hours after the news broke that someone had illegally lopped off the tops of a pair of trees that obscured a giant...
View ArticleThe New Beer Frontier
BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme this week did a report on the American craft-beer scene and how it’s starting to influence brewmasters in England. Among the brewers interviewed are guys from Harpoon,...
View ArticleAds of the Week: Beeeeeeer
I meant to post this just prior to Mother’s Day, but you know how life can be… The New-York Historical Society Museum and Library is hosting an exhibition on the history of brewing in New York. Prior...
View ArticleAd of the Week: The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous
September 6, 1937, issue of Life. Let’s just have some fun with this, shall we? From the Library of Congrass, a 1903 song proclaiming the famous Schlitz slogan:...
View ArticleAd of the Week: Budweiser
Sticking with beer, here’s one from Life‘s September 13, 1937, installment.
View ArticleChurchkey
From Food Republic comes this rundown of cool and interesting beer-can designs. I was never a can collector; my next-door neighbor was, when I was a kid, and he was a fat, sweaty, loud-mouthed bully,...
View ArticleAd of the Week: Pabst’s Racial Problem
Look at this. Just … look at this. From the July 25, 1938, issue of LIFE: From the very same issue, a letter to the editor: And the context? They ran right next to each other. The disparity between...
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