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50s and 60s fonts9/22/2023 ![]() That was a time when major beer corporations had yet to take a stranglehold of the market, meaning that you could still buy a six pack of a tasty, regional brew. In the grooviest era of the 1960s and ‘70s there was nothing better than hanging out in your backyard on a hot summer’s day, listening to some tunes and cracking open a cold one with the boys. Thanks to nostalgia for defunct beers, there's also the phenomenon of "zombie" beers - brands that have been preserved or revived because they mean something to some people, but that might not be the same recipe or brewery from back in the day. What used to be a local industry, with certain brands dominating a state or few, turned into a national industry, and many ubiquitous beers - your Ballantines, Rheingolds and Falstaffs - went out of business or were swallowed up. Defunct beer brands are plentiful, thanks to quirks of distribution systems and mergers. It is a sad lesson: the things we love will come and go, even beer.
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