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VIDEO: Whitbread Best, Christmas 1987

Part of a series of wordless musical jokes from one of the Big Six and starring, we think, Carry On actress Liz Fraser. The last time we saw one of those green-grey ceramic keg fonts in the wild was the Palm Tree in Mile End, East London, a few years ago.

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VIDEO: Beer Drinking Ritual, Lima, Peru

In 2010, journalist Dan Collyns (@dancollyns) joined a group of Peruvian Sunday league football players for a post-match beer: there’s one glass, one bottle per round, and rather a wet floor.

(Here’s the original video as it appeared on the BBC news website, rather than as a dodgy YouTube upload.)

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beer in fiction / tv videos

VIDEO: Chas & Dave – Courage Best

This advertisement for Courage Best from 1979 does the rounds fairly frequently and it’s obvious why: authentic period cinematography, a catchy tune based on a hit single, and a brilliant statement of ‘brand identity’. Thirty-five years later, with extra layers of retro-nostalgic charm, it’s surely due a revival by the current brand-owners.

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VIDEO: Bavarian Brewing, 1910

Footage (mostly) from 1910 of the brand new Humbser Brewery in Fürth, near Nuremberg, with a rather unnecessary voice-over.

PS. We’re not sure of the ethics of embedding this one — obviously ripped from Bavarian TV, but we’re assuming that’s a problem for YouTube and, anyway, it’s mostly made up of what must now be public domain footage.

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VIDEO: 10 Objects #9 — Token

This is the 9th in our series of really short films The Strange Rebirth of British Beer in 10 Objects.

It’s about a beer festival token and the development of the modern British beer festival.

With thanks to David Shipman, one of the directors of the Birmingham Beer Bash for donating the token.