Monday’s holiday ad is for the Canadian beer O’Keefe Ale, from 1958. With the slogan “… dans l’esprit des fetes!” — “in the holiday spirit” — it features a fetching couple under the mistletoe pouring a glass of O’Keefe Ale.
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Does O’Keefe still exist? In my grocery store days (mid-70′s in a MD suburb of DC when I was the beer & wine buyer – Montgomery Co was the distributor, but brewery sales reps visited w/the promo stuff), I think we sold that brand (lager & ale, a la Molson), but never any special holiday brew.