Ladies of Beer
Sure, beer can have the reputation as a guy’s drink (think Homer Simpson), but as these examples from the Button Museum can attest, ladies and beer have a long history together. Clockwise from top right: 1. Valley Forge Beer button from the 1940′s/1950′s. The beer survived Prohibition and was brewed up into the 1980′s. 2....
How To: Buttons For Craft Beer Week
Looking for a way to promote your brewery during Craft Beer Week and the summer festival season? Check out these four creative and fun ways to use buttons for your brewery: Sell Them This one’s kind of a no-brainer, but selling buttons is an easy and cost effective way to let the world know about...
How to Make Buttons for Your Brewery, Part 2
Last week we shared a couple tips for making brewery buttons and we’re back with even more great ideas for promoting your craft brews through pinbacks. Read on for ideas that work day and night, make distribution a cinch and take the hassle out of coming up with artwork for your buttons. 1. Glow in...
How to Make Buttons for your Brewery, Part 1
Are you a burgeoning (or established) craft brewer? Making buttons for your brewery is a natural choice for getting the word out about your delicious beverages. Customers will love getting and wearing your buttons– there’s nothing that a beer lover loves more than telling everyone about their new favorite brew! Plus, the button wearer becomes...
Happy Drink Beer Day!
It’s Drink Beer Day! Party like it’s 1987 and have a beer with Spuds. For more historic beer buttons, check out the Busy Beaver Button Museum at buttonmuseum.org.
Aesthetic Apparatus Loves Beer
Check out the custom bottle openers Aesthetic Apparatus ordered up a few weeks ago: When asked about his button project, Michael Byzewski said, “Well, I guess we’re big fans of beer. We are major backers of the Hops & Barley Party.”
Photos: We Want Beer at Busy Beaver
Thanks to everyone who came out for Busy Beaver’s Chicago Craft Beer Week event on Wednesday, May 23. We had a full house of enthusiastic beer and button lovers. Hope you enjoyed a look at a century’s worth of brewery buttons from the Busy Beaver Button Museum! A special thanks to Piece Brewery and Pizzeria...
Beavers Love Beer
We’re hard at work getting ready for tonight’s We Want Beer event. If you can’t see from the photo, the Beaver is wearing a vintage 1970s hat made from Old Chicago beer cans with hand-crocheted details. We think she looks stunning. RSVP to denise@busybeaver.net for tonight’s event and the beaver might even let you try on that...
Tonight! We Want Beer at Busy Beaver
Join us on tonight for our Chicago Craft Beer Week event “We Want Beer: The history of brewing in America as told through the pin-back button.” Get a private tour of the Busy Beaver Button Museum and see a century’s worth of historical beer buttons when you join us on tonight, 5:00pm to 8:00pm, at...
Busy Beaver Top 5: Chicago Craft Beer Week 2012
Chicago Craft Beer Week begins tomorrow— which events will you be attending? We know that Busy Beaver’s “We Want Beer“ event on May 23rd will be on your list, of course, but we also hope you’ll check out these events being hosted by a few of our brewery button customers: 1. Half Acre Party at...
We Want Beer! Button Preview
In preparation for the upcoming We Want Beer event on May 23 we here at the Beaver Dam have been busy pulling all of the great beer buttons from the Button Museum archive. Check out these two beautiful buttons from Van Nostrand’s Bunker Hill Brewery: These buttons look to be from 1896, the same year...
May 23: We Want Beer!
Join us on May 23 for our Chicago Craft Beer Week event “We Want Beer: The history of brewing in America as told through the pin-back button.” Get a private tour of the Busy Beaver Button Museum and see a century’s worth of historical beer buttons when you join us on Wednesday, May 23rd 5:00pm to...
