This pair of Harp lager beer glasses from the 1960s each have both English (Harp lager beer) and Chinese (红舌狗白啤酒, literally translated as ‘red tongue dog’ lager beer) words on them. ‘红舌狗’ or ‘red tongue dog’ is the Chinese equivalent for the brand name ‘Guinness’ in Singapore. The symbol on each glass is a red dog, instead of a ‘harp’, and these glasses would have been produced to market the Harp lager beer in Singapore during the 1960s. Harp lager was first produced in 1960 as a bottled beer by the Guinness company in response to the trend among drinkers in Britain and Ireland towards continental lager. The brand was marketed with the Brian Boru (prominent figure in medieval Ireland) harp/Trinity College harp as its emblem which is the same as the Guinness harp emblem. By 1964, the product was being sold on draught and led in its category for sales. Diageo, a British multinational alcoholic beverage monopoly headquartered in London, England, and the world's largest producer of spirits and a major producer of beer and wine, separated the brand from Guinness in 2005.
