Description: THIS IS A 1977 NEWSWEEK cover with BILLY CARTER using INFLUENCE PEDDLING to sell his Brad of BILLY BEER. Billy Beer is a brand of beer first made in the United States in July 1977, by the Falls City Brewing Company. It was promoted by Billy Carter, whose older brother Jimmy was then the president of the United States. In October 1978, Falls City announced that it was closing after less than a year of Carter's promotion. The beer was produced by Cold Spring Brewing, West End Brewing, and Pearl Brewing Company. In 2018 Uptown Brewing Company and Billy Beer, Inc. entered into a partnership with Greene County, North Carolina to build a 10,000 sq. foot production facility at the North West Greene Industrial Park. After Billy Beer ceased production in 1978, advertisements appeared in newspapers offering to sell Billy Beer cans for several hundred to several thousands of dollars each, attempting to profit from their perceived rarity. However, since the cans were actually produced in the millions, the real value of a can ranged from 50 cents to one dollar in 1981. In the eighth episode of season 9 of The Simpsons, "Lisa the Skeptic," Homer is hoarding Billy Beer cans, anticipating that they will rise in value. He drinks one of the beers and says wistfully, "We elected the wrong Carter." In the opening of Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, Daffy Duck works as a DeLorean salesman, and offers "a free gift pack of ice-cold Billy Beer with each and every purchase." In the episode "Shoeway to Heaven" of season 9 of Married With Children, Al is dumbfounded and asks the reporter "well what happened in the seventies?," to which the reporter replies "the Ford Pinto, Diff'rent Strokes and Billy Beer." Over ten songs about Billy Beer were released in the 1970s and early '80s. William Alton Carter (March 29, 1937 – September 25, 1988) was an American farmer, businessman, brewer, and politician. The younger brother of U.S. President Jimmy Carter, he promoted Billy Beer and Peanut Lolita; and he was a candidate for mayor of Plains, Georgia Item in good asw seen condition, please see pics PLEASE SEE PICS TO DETERMINE CONDITION. Multiple purchases can combine shipping. PLEASE USE THE "ADD TO CART" BUTTON TO COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS .
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