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Beer Label Books

By Bob Kay

Volume 1 includes 1950 and earlier labels from States west of the Mississippi

AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, KS, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY

Volume 2 includes 1950 and earlier labels from these Eastern and Southern States

AL, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, KY, LA, MA, ME, MD, MS, NC, NH, NJ, RI, SC, TN, VA, VT, WV

Volume 3 includes 1950 and earlier labels from these Central States

AR, IA, IN, MI, MN, MO

Volumes 1, 2 and 3 are $39.95 plus $3.95 S/H each

Now accepting orders for all 3 volumes!!

Payment methods accepted: Check, cash or Paypal

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These are all soft cover, spiral bound, full color books! Each book contains about 130 pages with 3000+ labels pictured, each with city, state, brewery or supplier, date period and value estimate.. Labels are sorted geographically by state, city and brewery (when known).

Mail Payment or direct inquiries to: Orders should include:

Bob Kay Beer Labels, Inc. Complete Mailing Address

PO Box 1805 email address & Telephone Number

Batavia, IL 60510-6805 Vol’s 1, 2 & 3 are $39.95 each; .Include S/H:

Phone 630-879-6214 S/H to US is $3.95: to Canada is $6.00

email: beerlabel@comcast.net S/H to Europe is $14.00

Web site: http://www.bobkaybeerlabels.com/ Be Sure to Specify which Volumes!!

Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3

Available Now! Avail. June 2008 Avail. Sept. 2008

What about other states?

Wisconsin Beer Labels — The First 75 Years: Available Now!!!

A book compiled by Bob Kay, Tye Schwalbe, John Steiner, & Herb Page

A soft cover, spiral bound, full color book with 218 pages and 2500+ labels.

Cost is $50 plus $4.95 S/H Order from:

Tye Schwalbe or John Steiner

145 West Avenue South N57415128 Mesa Drive

La Crosse, WI 54601 Menomonee Falls, WI 53501

Phone 608-519-0451 Phone 262-252-3513

email: tyesan2@charter.net email: steinerbears@aol.com

Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York books are under consideration for 2009.

Each would be a separate volume about the same size as US Beer Labels, Vol’s 1, 2 and 3.

This is US Beer Labels, Volume-1 Page 2:

Catalog Abbreviations

Douglas AZ (1) p

Copper City BC (2)

Non-Intoxicating, 2% (3) d

Example for Page 3 Label # 17

Date Period:

pp pre-prohibition; pre-1920

w World War-1 c1918-20: In the 2 years before national prohibition beer was limited to 2.75%w as a WW-1 conservation measure.

p Prohibition c1908-37: National prohibition was from 1920-33, however wet and dry dates for individual states vary widely. Most states repealed prohibition in 1933, however the process took longer in some. Alabama and Kansas were last in 1937.

h h-permits were used in the early to mid-1920s for tonic’s which were usually sold in drug stores. Alcohol levels varied with the prevailing legislation; usually between one-half and 2%v.

L L-permit c1928-33: Around 1928 an L-Type permit was added to cereal beverage (1/2%v) labels. Since national prohibition lasted 13 years, the L-permit serves to identify labels used in the latter half of prohibition. Many breweries were operating as distributors during this period and the L-Permit shows the real supplier.

u U-permit c1933-36: Immediately after the repeal of prohibition the fed’s required brewers to show their permit to produce beer on their labels. This was designated the U-permit. This requirement was stopped in 1935 however communication to brewers was poor and brewers were allowed to use up their inventory of labels on hand . A listing of known U-permit numbers for all 12 districts can be found at: http://www.mi-brew.com

i IRTP c1933-50: Immediately after repeal brewers were also required to print a tax-paid statement on their labels. This statement appeared in two forms: Tax paid at the rate required by internal revenue law, or the shorter version, Internal Revenue Tax Paid. This requirement was stopped in March of 1950, however brewers were allowed to use up their inventory of labels.

(1) City & State: For the Brewery of Origin. When the brewer is unknown the location of the distributor or bottler is listed.

(2) Brewery of Origin: BC = Brewing Company; BCp = Brewing Corporation; Bry = Brewery; Brg = Brewing; B’s = Breweries; etc. An asterisk (*) after the Brewery of Origin means the brewery is not listed on the label but has been determined or estimated from available information.

(3) Noteworthy Comments: This is a catch-all for information of interest on the label. This may include bottlers, distributors, agents, bogus brewery names, permit numbers, key-word variations between similar labels etc. Because of space limitations, only the key words are shown for changed sentences or phrases. These changes often arose from discussions with label examiners. An example is ...best imported hops... versus ...imported hops… on similar labels.

Date Period: See listing below. More detailed dating information can be found in the preface.

Value Estimate: $ estimate.