Ballantine

Ballantine is an American brand of beer. The brand is best known for Ballantine Ale, a pale ale that is one of the oldest brands of beer in the USA.

Some statisticians refer to Venn diagrams as Ballentine's (note spelling) because the beer cans label looks like a Venn diagram.

The abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning said of gallery owner Leo Castelli, that "he could sell anything. He could even sell beer cans." The artist Jasper Johns heard of this statement, and produced a series of castings in bronze of Ballantine Ale cans, with labels painted on, under the title Painted Bronze.

Sources

• Gujarati, Damodar N., Basic Econometrics, 2d. ed., (New York: McGraw-Hill), 1988, ISBN 0070251886
• Kennedy, Peter, "Ballentine: A Graphical Aid for Econometrics," Australian Economics Papers, v. 20, 1981, pp. 414-416.

External links

• Painted Bronze by Jasper Johns
• History of Ballantine Ale