I don’t know if this falls into the unreasonable wife catagory, but it is humorous.
There is a store in my area that shelves individual bottles of beer, and leaves the cardbord boxes out, so that the customer is free to pick a variety for purchace. Once every couple of weeks I do just that, and sometimes I pick themes. Sometimes they are all different varietys from the same brewer. Sometimes they are all stouts, or porters.
Well…tonight, as my wife saw me unloading my beer into the fridge she exclaimed with disappointment in her voice" My God honey, you bought heraldic beer!!!...you really need to get a hobby."
My reply was " I’ve got two, heraldry and beer:D"
She just shook her head in disbelief.
I’ll post pics of the labels as I drink them.
Perhaps you should consider taking the pictures BEFORE you drink them? 
Hall/Perdue;54088 wrote:
My reply was " I’ve got two, heraldry and beer:D"
Great combination.
There’s a 2-pint beer with a good heraldry on it that is a bit expensive (picture coming soon). I decided the Super Bowl was the perfect special occasion to buy such a beer.
When my wife found out how much the beer cost she said "why didn’t you just buy a 6-pack, it would have been cheaper" My response "But this one has a nice coat of arms i can post on my heraldry forums, and i won’t have any leftover since I don’t like to drink my beer on work nights"
Hall/Perdue wrote:
She just shook her head in disbelief.
So I know the feeling well!!!
Linusboarder;54113 wrote:
When my wife found out how much the beer cost she said "why didn’t you just buy a 6-pack, it would have been cheaper"
Wives. And then when you point out that camping at the lake for two weeks would be cheaper than her planned flight to Paris, they suddenly don’t get the concept of saving money…
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Heraldic Beer label as promised.
Hall/Perdue;54166 wrote:
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Heraldic Beer label as promised.
Hey, my wife’s favorite beer! Now if I could just interest her in heraldry…
Many years ago my then-roommate picked up a set of crystal beer glasses at a yard sale. He wound up giving them to me when I moved out because he never gained an appreciation for beer. I don’t know anything about this particular beer and can’t seem to find a logo on the Net. Anyway, I pulled one out from the cupboard and here are some pics:
http://www.hectorcito.com/heraldry/BeerGlass.jpg http://www.hectorcito.com/heraldry/BeerGlassDETAIL.jpg
The arms differ from those on a bottle currently on eBay.
A strange combination of name and arms. Franz-Joseph usually refers to the emperor of Austria-Hungary, but these are the Bavarian arms. Unless its a reference to Franz-Joseph Strauss, the longtime leader of the main Bavarian political party, the CSU, but that would seem unlikely.
The Franz-Joseph Jubelbier appears to have been brewed by the Privatbrauerei Franz Joseph Sailer. They have gone out of business, so I guess we’ll never know. :confused:
Finally, have some pictures of beer/wine heraldry i’ve been drinking:
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/6274/sa401284sy1.jpg http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6730/sa401288rc9.jpg
This next one interests me quite a bit, because It is different arms than the ones that are used for there more popular lighter beer. There’s 2 hoe’s instead of one:
kmansfield;54219 wrote:
The Franz-Joseph Jubelbier appears to have been brewed by the Privatbrauerei Franz Joseph Sailer.
Ah, I guess that would explain it—named after the firm’s founder, no doubt.
Linusboarder;54220 wrote:
This next one interests me quite a bit, because It is different arms than the ones that are used for there more popular lighter beer. There’s 2 hoe’s instead of one:
My guess is that they are using a "double spade" here as Optimator is a dopplebock (literally double bock).
Reviving an old thread. Here are arms on a Boddington Ale label
And note Spanish Bourbon arms at bottom of Bacardi rum label:
