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Jim Beam is a brand of bourbon whiskey. It is currently the best selling brand of bourbon in the world. Founded in 1795, the Jim Beam distillery has been family operated for seven generations. The brand was given the name “Jim Beam” in 1933 after Colonel James B. Beam, who rebuilt the business following Prohibition. The company produces several varieties of bourbon and whiskey, as well as food products that include bourbon as an ingredient. Although the Beam / Noe family is still involved, Jim Beam Bourbon is owned by Beam Global Spirits & Wine, which is in turn owned by holding company Fortune Brands (NYSE: FO), both headquartered in the suburbs of Chicago, in Deerfield, IL.
During the late 1700’s a group of immigrants from Germany came to America who would leave a lasting impression on the American spirits business. Members of the Boehm family, eventually changing the spelling to “Beam,” settled in the lush bluegrass hills of Kentucky. Johannes “Jacob” Beam (1770–1834) found the land rich for farming and began experimenting with the corn and grains that grew on his farm, blending them with the clear spring water that flowed nearby. The mix was run through a still and aged in barrels, producing a liquid that came to become known as bourbon, possibly named after Bourbon County, Kentucky. Jacob Beam sold his first barrels of corn whiskey around 1795. The whiskey was first called Old Jake Beam, and the distillery was known as Old Tub.

This Jim Beam tin sign would look great hanging over someones bar.

 In cocktails
 
A 1 litre bottle of Southern Comfort.Southern Comfort is used in the creation of many popular cocktails, including “Alabama Slammer”, “Red Death”, “A Piece of Ass”, “Red Devil”, “Greek Sex on the Beach”, “Crash & Burn”, “‘57 Chevy”, “Sloe Comfortable Screw”, “SloScrew”, “Slo Sunrise”, “Rickstasy”, “SocaCola”,”SoCoCello” and “SoCo-LoCo”, “SoCo Manhattan”, “Blind Andy”, “SoCo Andy”, “Liquid Cocaine”, “Steamboat” and “Funky Cold Medina. “Southern Comfort and club soda make a drink called “an old woody”.

One of the earliest Southern Comfort-based cocktails to be marketed was the Scarlett O’Hara, concocted in tribute to the release of the film adaptation of Gone with the Wind in 1939. The mixture includes Southern Comfort, cranberry juice, and fresh lime.

In a more recent advertising campaign, the company suggests mixing it with lime juice to make a Soco and lime.

When Southern Comfort is taken as a shot and chased with orange soda, it gives the distinct taste of an Orange Creamsicle. Another popular mix that incorporates juice is the “Adam’s Apple,” a combination of Southern Comfort and apple juice. Apple cider can also be used in this drink.

In New Zealand, Southern Comfort is often mixed with Lemon & Paeroa.

Southern Comfort is a bourbon whiskey based 0 fruit and spice liqueur produced since 1874. It is made from a blend of bourbon whiskey, mango, orange, grape, vanilla, beetroot, sugar, and cinnamon flavors. The Brown-Forman Corporation owns the Southern Comfort brand.

Southern Comfort is available as 100 US proof (50% alcohol by volume), 80 US proof (40% alcohol by volume), 70 US proof (35% alcohol by volume) and 42 US proof (21% alcohol by volume). Southern Comfort Reserve, is a blend of Southern Comfort and 6-year-old bourbon and is 80 proof. Outside of the Americas, Southern Comfort is distilled in Fox & Geese, just outside Dublin City, Ireland.

Anyone who has a bar or restraunt will love to have this Southern comfort tin sign to display.

The Coors Brewing Company is a regional division of the world’s fifth-largest brewing company, the Molson Coors Brewing Company. According to the Molson-Coors website, the division is the third-largest brewer in the U.S. The brewery in Golden, Colorado is the world’s largest on a single site.

In 1873, German immigrants Adolph Coors and Jacob Schueler, a successful Denver businessman, established a brewery in Golden, Colorado. Coors invested $2,000 in the operation to Schueler’s investment of $18,000. In 1880, Coors bought out his partner in “The Golden Brewery”. It is said to take its flavor from the pure water of the Rocky Mountains.

In 1916, Colorado went dry with Prohibition. However, years before the Volstead Act went into effect nationwide, Adolph Coors with his sons Adolph Jr. and Grover and Herman had established the Adolph Coors Brewing and Manufacturing Company, which included the Herold Porcelain and other ventures. The brewery was converted into a malted milk and near beer venture. Coors sold much of the malted milk to the Mars Candy Company for the production of confection. Manna was a “near beer” which is like the non-alcoholic beverages of today. Coors relied on the porcelain company as well as a cement and real estate company to survive. In 1933, Coors was one of only a handful of breweries that survived Prohibition. Grover was responsible for the malted milk operation and Herman soon left Golden for Inglewood, California to open the H.F. Coors Porcelain Company. H.F. Coors’ company is not connected with the beer or other Coors-related corporations. Grover later was a sales official in the California region for the brewery.

According to the Coors website, in 1959, Coors became the first American brewer to come in an all-aluminum two-piece beverage can. Coors currently operates the largest aluminum can producing plant in the World in Golden, known as the Rocky Mountain Metal Container. RMMC is a joint venture between Ball Metal and Coors (2003-current). Bill Coors is the “Father of the Aluminum Beer Can.” Coors invented the pollution free push tab can in the 1970s, however the consumer disliked the top and it was discontinued soon after. The long and current slogan of “Silver Bullet” to describe Coors Light is not for the beer, it is for the silver colored can the beer is packaged in. Coors Light was once produced in the yellow bellied cans like Coors Banquet; however, when the yellow was removed and the can was mostly silver, many dubbed the beer as ” The Silver Bullet.”

Many of Coors’ slogans, including “Brewed With Rocky Mountain Spring Water,” “America’s Fine Light Beer,” and “Banquet,” are from the Post World War Two era. Currently Coors Banquet, the original Coors beer, is only brewed in Golden. Coors Light is the number one selling beer in the Molson-Coors profile and is a huge factor to the MillerCoors joint venture.

For much of its history, Coors beer was a regional product mostly confined to the American west by legal restrictions. This made it a novelty on the east coast, and visitors returning from visits to the western states often made a point of bringing back a case. This iconic status was reflected in pop culture: in 1977 the movie Smokey and the Bandit centered on an “illegal” shipment of Coors from Texas to Georgia. Boston Red Sox great Carl Yastrzemski was such a big Coors fan that when he loaded up the team plane with multiple cases of Coors for the return trip to the East Coast, some of his teammates jokingly wondered if the plane would be able to successfully take off. The company finally established nationwide distribution in the U.S. in the early 1990s.

This Coors beer tin sign would make a great gift for anybody.

On September 19, 1966, the conglomerate W.R. Grace & Co. agreed to buy 53% of Miller from Mrs. Lorraine John Mulberger (Frederick Miller’s granddaughter who objected to alcohol) and her family. On June 12, 1969 Philip Morris (now Altria) bought Miller from W.R. Grace for $130 million, outbidding PepsiCo. On May 30th, 2002, it was acquired by South African Breweries from Philip Morris for $3.6 billion worth of stock and $2 billion in debt, to form SABMiller; with Philip Morris retaining a 36% share at that time, with voting rights of 24.99%.

On August 14, 2006, Miller Brewing announced it had completed the purchase of Sparks and Steel Reserve brands from McKenzie River Corporation for $215 million cash.  Miller had been producing both products prior to this purchase.

On October 9, 2007, SABMiller and Molson Coors agreed to combine their U.S. operations in a joint venture called Miller Coors. SABMiller is to own 58% of the unit, which is to operate in the U.S. and Puerto Rico but not Canada, where Molson Coors is strongest. Molson Coors is to own 42%, but the parties are to have equal voting power.

For the guys that have their own man-cave this Miller beer tin sign is for you.

Miller Brewing Company is the second largest American style beermaker and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It is owned by SABMiller. Miller owns breweries in Albany, Georgia; Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin; Eden, North Carolina; Fort Worth, Texas; Irwindale, California; Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Trenton, Ohio.

Miller has bought up the rights to the Hamm’s Brewery brands.Miller Brewing Company was founded in 1855 by Frederick Miller when he purchased the small Plank-Road Brewery. The brewery’s location in the Menomonee Valley provided easy access to raw materials produced on nearby farms.

For people who are into tin signs and collecting them this  beer tin sign is for you.

According to the Jack Daniel’s website, founder Jasper Newton “Jack” Daniel was born in September 1850, although seemingly no one knows the exact date because the birth records were destroyed in a courthouse fire. If the 1850 date is correct, he might have become a licensed distiller at the age of 16, as the distillery claims a founding date of 1866. Other records list his birthdate as September 5, 1846, and in his 2004 biography Blood & Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel author Peter Krass maintains that land and deed records show that the distillery was actually not founded until 1875. Daniel was one of thirteen children, of Welsh and Scottish descent.

Because Jack Daniel never married and did not have any children, he took his favorite nephew, Lem Motlow, under his wing. Lem had a head for numbers, and was soon doing all of the distillery’s bookkeeping. In 1907, due to failing health, Jack Daniel gave the distillery to his nephew. Lem Motlow then gave the distillery to his children, Robert, Reagor, Dan, Connor, and Mary, after his death in 1947.

Jack died in 1911 from blood poisoning that resulted from an infection. The infection allegedly began in one of his toes, which Daniel injured one early morning at work by kicking his safe in anger when he could not get it open (he was said to always have had trouble remembering the combination).

Tennessee passed state wide prohibition laws in 1910 preventing the legal distillation of Jack Daniels in the state, as a result Lem Motlow moved the distillery to St Louis, Missouri and Birmingham, Alabama, though none of the production from these locations was ever sold due to quality problems. The introduction of prohibition through the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution stopped production in St Louis; production in Alabama having been stopped by that state’s prohibition laws. Production ceased but even the passing of the Twenty-first Amendment did not allow production in Lynchburg to restart as the state prohibition laws were still in effect. Lem Motlow, as a Tennessee state senator, helped repeal these laws allowing production to restart in 1938. The five year gap between national repeal and Tennessee repeal is commemorated in the Jack Daniel’s 75th anniversary of the end of prohibition gift pack having a second bottle commemorating the 70th anniversary of the reopening of the distillery.

Distillation was halted nationally again between 1942 and 1946 because of the war effort. Lem Motlow did not allow the production of Jack Daniels to restart again until 1947 when they could obtain the required quality of grain.

When the company was later incorporated, it was incorporated as “Jack Daniel Distillery, Lem Motlow, Prop., Inc.” This has allowed the company to continue to include Lem Motlow, who died in 1947, in their marketing, as mentioning him in the advertising is technically just citing the full corporate name. Likewise, the advertisements continue to say that Lynchburg has only 361 people, while the official (2000 census) population is 5,740. This is allowable because the entire label was trademarked in the early 1960s when this figure was the actual population cited by the Census Bureau; changing the label would require applying for a new trademark or forfeiting trademark protection. However, the census population includes all of Moore County, as the county and city governments are consolidated. Moore County, where the Jack Daniel’s distillery is located, is one of the state’s many dry counties. Therefore, while it is legal to distill the product within the county, it is illegal to purchase it there. However, a state law has provided one exception: a distillery may sell one commemorative product, regardless of county statutes. Jack Daniel’s now sells Gentleman Jack and Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel at the distillery’s White Rabbit Bottle Shop.

Tennessee whiskey is filtered through sugar maple charcoal in large wooden vats prior to aging. Tennessee whiskey is not bourbon whiskey, as defined by Title 27 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 1, Part 5, Section 5.22

Jack Daniel’s is a brand of Tennessee whiskey that is among the world’s best-selling liquors and is known for its square bottles and black label. It has been prominently featured in movies, songs, and novels, and is strongly linked to rock and roll, country music, American biker culture, Jimmy Page, Frank Sinatra, Keith Richards, Lemmy and Slash. The brand is produced in Lynchburg, Tennessee by Jack Daniel Distillery, which has been owned by the Brown-Forman beverage company since 1956.

Tennessee whiskey is filtered through sugar maple charcoal in large wooden vats prior to aging. Tennessee whiskey is not bourbon whiskey, as defined by Title 27 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 1, Part 5, Section 5.22

If you own or run a place that serves Jack Daniels then this Jack Daniels tin sign is a must to have for your collection.

Cornerstone of the B&O, laid July 4, 1828 by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, now displayed at the B&O Railroad MuseumConstruction began on July 4, 1828, when Charles Carroll of Carrollton did the groundbreaking, and the first section, from Baltimore west to Ellicott’s Mills (now known as Ellicott City), opened on May 24, 1830. It was decided to follow the Patapsco River to a point near Parr’s Ridge (now known as Mount Airy) where the railroad would cross a height of land and descend into the valley of the Monocacy and Potomac rivers. Further extensions opened to Frederick (including the short Frederick Branch) December 1, 1831, Point of Rocks April 2, 1832, Sandy Hook December 1, 1834 (the connection to the Winchester and Potomac Railroad at Harpers Ferry opening in 1837), Martinsburg May 1842, Hancock June 1842, Cumberland November 5, 1842, Piedmont July 21, 1851, Fairmont June 22, 1852, and its terminus at Wheeling, West Virginia (then part of Virginia) on January 1, 1853. The narrow strip of available land along the Potomac River from Point of Rocks to Harpers Ferry caused a legal battle between the B&O and the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal as both sought to exclude the other from its use.A later compromise allowed the two companies to share the right of way.

The state of Maryland granted the B&O a charter to build a line from Baltimore to Washington, D.C., in 1831, and the Washington Branch was opened in 1835. This line joined to the original mainline at Relay, Maryland, crossing the Patapsco on the Thomas Viaduct, which remains one of the B&O’s signature structures. This line was partially funded by the state, and was operated separately until the 1870s, with the state taking a 25% cut of gross passenger receipts. This line was built in stone, much like the original mainline; by this time, however, strap rail was no longer used for new construction. Most of the stone bridges on the Old Main Line did not last long, being washed out by the periodic flooding of the Patapsco River and replaced at first by Bollman Truss bridges. The Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad to Annapolis connected to this line at Annapolis Junction in 1840. As an unwritten condition for the charter, it was understood that the state would not charter any competing line between Baltimore and Washington.

This railroad tin sign is a must for any railroad collector’s collection.

The Union Pacific Railroad was incorporated on July 1, 1862 in the wake of the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. Under the guidance of its dominant stockholder Dr. Thomas Clark Durant, the namesake of the city of Durant, Iowa, the first rails were laid in Omaha, Nebraska. They were part of the railroads that came together at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869 as the first transcontinental railroad in North America. Subsequently, UP took over three Mormon-built roads: the Utah Central Rail Road extending south from Ogden, Utah, to Salt Lake City, the Utah Southern Railroad extending south from Salt Lake City into the Utah Valley, and the Utah Northern Railroad extending north from Ogden into Idaho; and it built or absorbed local lines that gave it access to Denver and to Portland, Oregon, and the Pacific Northwest. It acquired the Kansas Pacific (originally called the Union Pacific, Eastern Division, though in essence a separate railroad). It also owned narrow gauge trackage into the heart of the Colorado Rockies and a standard gauge line south from Denver across New Mexico into Texas (both parts of the Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf Railway).

 
Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad gather on the 100th meridian, which later became Cozad, Nebraska, approximately 250 miles (400km) west of Omaha, Nebraska Territory, in October 1866. The train in the background awaits the party of Eastern capitalists, newspapermen, and other prominent figures invited by the railroad executives.UP was entangled in the Crédit Mobilier scandal of 1872. Its early troubles led to bankruptcy during the 1870s, the result of which was reorganization of the Union Pacific Railroad as the Union Pacific Railway on January 24, 1880, with its dominant stockholder being Jay Gould. The new company also declared bankruptcy, in 1893, but emerged on July 1, 1897, reverting to the original name, Union Pacific Railroad. Such minor changes in corporate titles were a common result of reorganization after bankruptcy among American railroads. This period saw the UP sell off some of its holdings; the Union Pacific Railway, Central Branch became the Central Branch of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the Southern Branch was acquired by the newly-incorporated Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad in 1870. However, the UP soon recovered, and was strong enough to take control of Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) in 1901 and then was ordered in 1913 by the U.S. Supreme Court to surrender control of the same. UP also founded the Sun Valley resort in Idaho in 1936, the UP engineering department in Omaha designed the first ski chairlift that summer. The Missouri Pacific and Missouri Kansas Texas both came back into the UP fold in the 1980s. In 1996, UP finally acquired SP in a transaction envisioned nearly a century earlier.

The headquarters of UP has been in Omaha, Nebraska, since its inception. Currently they are housed in the Union Pacific Center, completed in 2003. Other important UP facilities in Omaha have included the Union Pacific Railroad Omaha Shops Facility and the Harriman Dispatch Center.

This railroad tin sign is a must for any railroad collector’s collection.