Out of the 49 million adults in the UK it apparently only takes three idiots to complain for a 60-year-old advertising slogan to be banned by the Advertising Standards Authority.
The phrase “Take Courage” has been in use by the brewers of Courage since at least 1950, when the beer still came from the [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 18, 2009
Take Courage in the face of idiocy
April 2, 2009
Befuggled: doubts about a hop’s birth
Bang, bang, another beery myth hits the floorboards, or at least staggers back badly wounded, after excellent work by Kim Cook in an article called “Who produced Fuggle’s Hops” just published in the latest (Spring 2009, issue 130) edition of Brewery History magazine.
The story repeated everywhere about Fuggles, one of the two classic English hop [...]
