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Anybody remeber these...I never heard of 'em and Dad was a wholesale distributor...
The beer bag lady
By Lew Cady
Once upon a time, according to Marcia Butterbaugh, beer didn?t come in six-packs or 12-packs. "So when your grandpa bought bottles of beer to bring home, the bar or liquor store would use a paper bag to make them easy to carry. Gramps usually reused the bag to bring back his empties. These beer bags were provided by breweries and bore beer names, logos, slogans and the like."
Marcia ought to know. The Kansas City beer lover has one of the two biggest collections of beer bags --190 bags, all different. Gary Brinkmeyer of Charleston, IL, has the other.
Marcia has been a beer bag lady for years, haunting flea markets in her quest for yet another beer bag. "Flea markets are where I?ve found most of them," she says. "They usually cost about two bucks each. The most I?ve paid for one is $25. That was a Capitol."
Beer bags were produced in several sizes. Some were designed for carrying six bottles, some for 12, some for quarts. Most were made pre-Prohibition, but a few were produced after the repeal. And some of the latest ones were even made to carry cans.
The advent of the six-pack carrier put an end to the need for beer bags. "My guess is the last beer bags were produced in the mid-1930s," Marcia says.
Not all breweries bothered to make bags, but brewers in the St. Louis area, especially Falstaff and Hyde Park, were prolific suppliers. "I?ve got maybe 10 different Hyde Parks and probably 20 different Falstaffs," she says. "And surprisingly enough, only four or five different beer bags from Anheuser- Busch."
Beer bags were, basically, shopping bags with beer advertising on them. They came in white or manila with two different kinds of handles. Rope handles-which came in various colors. And so-called continental handles which were wide, flat paper strips glued to the outside of the bag. If the bag was stapled, it was an early model; the later ones were glued.
Printing was one- or two-color, and that?s the best part of most beer bags; they often had terrific graphics and wonderful slogans that weren?t used elsewhere.
Hyde Park: "Seldom Equaled-Never Excelled."
Budweiser: "The Table Beer of America."
Kingsbury: "Aristocrat of Beer."
And if you ordered a couple of bottles of each? That, of course, would be a mixed bag.
The beer bag lady
By Lew Cady
Once upon a time, according to Marcia Butterbaugh, beer didn?t come in six-packs or 12-packs. "So when your grandpa bought bottles of beer to bring home, the bar or liquor store would use a paper bag to make them easy to carry. Gramps usually reused the bag to bring back his empties. These beer bags were provided by breweries and bore beer names, logos, slogans and the like."
Marcia ought to know. The Kansas City beer lover has one of the two biggest collections of beer bags --190 bags, all different. Gary Brinkmeyer of Charleston, IL, has the other.
Marcia has been a beer bag lady for years, haunting flea markets in her quest for yet another beer bag. "Flea markets are where I?ve found most of them," she says. "They usually cost about two bucks each. The most I?ve paid for one is $25. That was a Capitol."
Beer bags were produced in several sizes. Some were designed for carrying six bottles, some for 12, some for quarts. Most were made pre-Prohibition, but a few were produced after the repeal. And some of the latest ones were even made to carry cans.
The advent of the six-pack carrier put an end to the need for beer bags. "My guess is the last beer bags were produced in the mid-1930s," Marcia says.
Not all breweries bothered to make bags, but brewers in the St. Louis area, especially Falstaff and Hyde Park, were prolific suppliers. "I?ve got maybe 10 different Hyde Parks and probably 20 different Falstaffs," she says. "And surprisingly enough, only four or five different beer bags from Anheuser- Busch."
Beer bags were, basically, shopping bags with beer advertising on them. They came in white or manila with two different kinds of handles. Rope handles-which came in various colors. And so-called continental handles which were wide, flat paper strips glued to the outside of the bag. If the bag was stapled, it was an early model; the later ones were glued.
Printing was one- or two-color, and that?s the best part of most beer bags; they often had terrific graphics and wonderful slogans that weren?t used elsewhere.
Hyde Park: "Seldom Equaled-Never Excelled."
Budweiser: "The Table Beer of America."
Kingsbury: "Aristocrat of Beer."
And if you ordered a couple of bottles of each? That, of course, would be a mixed bag.
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:nono: It's still a little early for Christmas Decor in the brews thread, please use two golf balls through the month of Nov. :mj07: :toast:
Bad-Bone-Man,Good stuff. I`m one of the "older"
Madjackers and I don`t remember "beer bags"!
What I do remember,is going to my Aunt&Uncle`s
house in Toledo,Oh.@4th of July picnic &tthere was
lots of"Back-Yard "beer:Strohs,Old Dutch,Carlings Black Label,&Burger.#7 here & Wife on way to Melborne,Australia.:mj06: :00hour
as a kid, 'riding the truck' with the driver....I remember stamping 6 packs of Old Milwaukee @ .29 cents on summer Holidays, bottles in the box carton, buy 10 cases, get on free for the retail.
:mj07: I don't remember the bags :mj07:
I also remember...
nickel and dime beers at 7 am in the morning...farm communties
as a kid a bar owner in Horton, KS pulling a gun on the driver I was with...:scared no shots fired
almost cutting my middle right finger off tossing a case of returnable bottles ....going home (apt) and soaking it in Vodka :mj07:
..The day I was stopped by the Highway Patrol for a log book check...my B-Day...didn't fill it out that afternoon...Trooper gave me a ticket and said, "Happy Birthday"
I'm ramblin', but I remeber....:toast:
nickel and dime beers at 7 am in the morning...farm communties
as a kid a bar owner in Horton, KS pulling a gun on the driver I was with...:scared no shots fired
almost cutting my middle right finger off tossing a case of returnable bottles ....going home (apt) and soaking it in Vodka :mj07:
..The day I was stopped by the Highway Patrol for a log book check...my B-Day...didn't fill it out that afternoon...Trooper gave me a ticket and said, "Happy Birthday"
I'm ramblin', but I remeber....:toast:
