Vintage Oldenberg Brewing Company Outrageous Bock Beer Label Fort Mitchell Kentucky Microbrewed Bock Beer Collector Label 1990s 🍺 midcentury_medical_collectible NOS stands for New Old

NOS stands for New Old Stock — meaning the item was produced for commercial use but was never actually used

wider than it is tall — the classic proportions of a can or crock label from an era when American food packaging was a matter of letterpress craft

multicolor lithograph produced with evident care and skill for an industry that has largely vanished from American manufacturing

In Halifax County specifically — whether North Carolina or Virginia — the likely point of sale would have been the variety stores serving Roanoke Rapids

Vintage Oldenberg Brewing Company Outrageous Bock Beer Label Fort Mitchell Kentucky Microbrewed Bock Beer Collector Label 1990s 🍺 midcentury_medical_collectible NOS stands for New OldDo You Remember When Fort Mitchell Had Its Own Brewery? The Story Behind Oldenberg's Outrageous Bock There's a particular kind of nostalgia that belongs entirely to the craft beer world of the early 1990s a time before taprooms were on every corner, before "microbrewery" was a marketing buzzword, and before anyone had fully figured out what American craft beer was going to become. It was a time of genuine experiments, of passionate founders betting