With today being National Lager Day, the thought of doing a Vintage Beer Calendar came straight into my brain as naturally as a Stella Artois goes down the gully! Let’s take a quick look at what a future Vintage Beer Calendar might look like – a Full 12 Pack of Ice Cold lager loveliness!
Print shows a scene at the North Pole where polar bears are enjoying mugs of lager beer, with a trompe-lœil effect showing overheated people, with fans and sunshades, and one man reaching into the scene for a frosty “fresh and cold” mug of lager beer offered to him by a polar bear. Contributor: A. Hoen & Co. Date: 1877H. & J. lager beer. Joseph Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle seated on keg being pulled by goats with satyrs on either side. Contributor Names Drummond, Dominick I., approximately 1830-1899.Val. Blatz’s premium export, Milwaukee lager beer. Print of advertisement for Val. Blatz’s Milwaukee Lager Beer showing a brewer raising a glass of beer, and a bird’s-eye view of the brewery. Wittemann Brothers, 1879.Print shows a broadside advertisement of a young woman serving beer to two well-dressed men seated at a table in a garden-like setting with a picture of the U.S. Capitol in the background. They raise their glasses as though in a toast; the waitress is setting a third glass on the table. Date: 1888Acme Beer, 1914People drinking lager beer. Date: 1879Print of advertisement for the F. Heim & Bro. Brewing Company showing a man holding up a glass of beer, and a bird’s-eye view of the brewery. Contributor: Wittemann Brothers. Date: 1880What a perfect name for a Vintage Beer. OLD STYLE. 1950’s.Australian for Beer, mate.Just got LUCKY.Didn’t make the cut for our Vintage Japanese Prints calendar but will do fine here!
A post with a nice finish…. Got any ideas for a vintage Pop-Culture Calendar you’d like to see? Drop us a line and maybe we’ll take it up for consideration. Until then, enjoy your National Lager Day!!
