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Beer In Ads #574: Recipe For Pleasure

by Jay Brooks on March 29, 2012 · 1 comment

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Thursday’s ad is yet another one for Miller High Life. This ad’s theme is a “Recipe For Pleasure,” with the High Life bottle is surrounded by food to pair with it; hot dogs, onions, hamburgers and mustard. Who’s hungry now?

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Beer In Ads #573: Enjoy Life

by Jay Brooks on March 28, 2012 · 0 comments

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Wednesday’s ad is yet another one for Miller High Life, this time simply showing a bottle and beer glass on a silver tray. ALso on the tray is a fancy bottle opener and an orchid, which naturally shows how fancy it is.

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Beer In Ads #572: A Wedding Toast

by Jay Brooks on March 27, 2012 · 1 comment

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Tuesday’s ad is another one for Miller High Life, this time showing a wedding couple in what looks like to me eerie tropical moonlight. Apparently it’s Waikiki, Hawai. The happy pair is being toasted with Miller High Life. It must have been a quickie wedding, there’s only four guests (or witnesses) at the reception. The server on the left looks like she’s wearing a “Girl in the Moon” outfit.

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Monday’s ad is for Miller High Life, showing the “new look” bottles in a champagne bucket filled with ice. Fancy, right? It may be I’m so used to High Life being a subpremium that nothing can persuade me to see it as a high end beer. Oh, and the new look? “Now it’s labelled in foil!”

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Beer In Ads #524: The Cowboy High Life

by Jay Brooks on January 19, 2012 · 1 comment

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Thursday’s ad is for Miller High Life, also from 1962. It’s a very fake-looking western setting, just a studio with a few props — a wagon, fence and saddle. Couldn’t they have done the same shot at an actual farm or even better, a cattle ranch? Our “cowboy,” mug of beer in hand, is looking down at his new boots as the little filly on the other side if the fence looks on. I’m just not buying it.

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Wednesday’s ad is for Miller High Life, from 1960. The men drink beer (and at least one smokes) while watching the woman outs out all of the food. And it’s quite a spread. And in the inset pictures below you can see close-ups of two of the dishes. I’m both hungry … and thirsty.

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Beer In Ads #501: Miller High Life’s Christmas Barn

December 19, 2011

Monday’s holiday ad is for Miller High Life showing an idyllic country scene complete with newly fallen snow, a barn and silo, with a small chapel in the distance, as a horse and sleigh pulls two couples through the white landscape. Ah, Christmas like it never was.

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Beer In Ads #413: A Night On The Town

July 13, 2011

Wednesday’s ad is for Miller high Life, from 1948, and shows a fancy party and a swanky restaurant with a spiffy view looking out and down on whatever city it’s supposed to be. And at the center of it all, the server is bringing a pilsner glass of Miller High Life.

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Beer In Ads #400: Home Is Where The Miller Is

June 24, 2011

Friday’s ad brings our Miller High Life week to a close. I’m not sure when the ad is from, but it’s a safe bet it was at least when needlepoint was popular. Although if my memory serves me, I think this is actually crewel. My mother, grandmother and several aunts were addicted to sewing and [...]

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Beer In Ads #399: Quality Is Always In Good Taste

June 23, 2011

Thursday’s ad is yet another one for Miller High Life, the Champagne of Bottle Beer, this one from 1956. This one seems less about sophistication, and more about a return to a simpler, down home, country lifestyle. But it looks like a set, and nothing like an actual home. It just seems odd. “Aren’t we [...]

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Beer In Ads #397: Enjoy Life With Miller High Life!

June 22, 2011

Wednesday’s ad is another one for Miller High Life, the Champagne of Bottle Beer, from 1948. Again, the attempt is to make it appear more sophisticated, as it’s served on a silver tray, with a garnish of an orchid and a handsome looking bottle opener resting on the tray, too. With that presentation, how could [...]

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Beer In Ads #396: Miller High Life Bowls

June 21, 2011

Tuesday’s ad is for Miller High Life, the Champagne of Bottle Beer, but in a more down-to-earth setting: the bowling alley. I don’t know the age of the ad, but it feels Fifties. The ad copy claims the beer is “Sparkling … flavorful … distinctive.” Don’t they look like they’re having fun?

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Beer In Ads #395: Champagne of Bottle Beer

June 20, 2011

Monday’s ad is from 1948, and is for Miller High Life, which even then was being touted as the Champagne of Bottle Beer. It’s an obvious visual device to put the beer into a champagne bucket, but it works.

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Beer In Ads #358: Miller’s Six-Bottle Man

April 28, 2011

Thursday’s ad is also from 1983, but is for Miller Brewing. The ad welcomes us to “Miller Time” and features a bearded man in a plaid shirt (at first I thought he might be a lumberjack, but alas it doesn’t look like flannel) holding six bottles of Miller High Life in both hands, that is [...]

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Beer In Ads #348: Miller’s High Life On The Farm

April 14, 2011

Thursday’s ad is for Miller High Life, showing a time capsule of a scene on what appears to be a farm. But one of those genteel farms of yesteryear. There’s a horse stable in the background, and in the field there’s a groups of dogs and three people who look ready for an English-style fox [...]

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Beer In Ads #343: Go First Class With Miller High Life

April 7, 2011

Thursday’s ad is for Miller High Life from 1957 showing a delicious-looking meal of steak with a number of side dishes, like roasted tomatoes, peas in mushroom caps(?) and onion rings. And how about that big pat of butter on top? I’m hungry now. The tagline is great, too. “For the taste of your life [...]

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