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Beer In Ads #294: Miller High Life, For The Taste Of Your Life

January 21, 2011

Friday’s ad is for Miller High Life from 1956, displaying a busy, chaotic mess of images including a high life bottle being poured into what looks like a ceramic stein. Then there’s a loaf of a bread and summer sausage with a knife to cut it and napkins (one red and one with a checkerboard [...]

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Beer In Ads #278: Season’s Greetings From The Moon

December 31, 2010

Friday’s holiday ad for New Year’s Eve is a Miller High Life ad from 1948 features their iconic “Girl in the Moon” sitting on a crescent moon toasting the world with a beer. It seems a fitting way to finish 2010 and welcome the promise of a new year. Hoppy New Year everybody.

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Beer In Ads #273: Seasons Greetings From Miller High Life

December 25, 2010

Saturday’s holiday ad is for Miller High Life from 1949 and features their “Girl in the Moon” wishing everyone “Seasons Greetings.” I normally don’t keep the “Beer in Ads” series running through the weekend, but there’s just too many great Christmas beer ads not to. And mores specifically, “A Holiday toast to you from the [...]

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Beer In Ads #257: Miller, There’s Only One Favorite

December 3, 2010

Friday’s holiday ad is from 1951 and is for Miller High Life. I love the retro cartoons, they remind me of the Schlitzerland ads from around the same time. There’s the Santa suit, hanging the mistletoe, putting on the feast and greeting the guests with the Christmas tree in the window.

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Beer In Ads #235: Colt 45 On The Playboy Jet

November 3, 2010

Wednesday’s ad is for the malt liquor Colt 45 and a contest where someone could win a “completely unique weekend on Playboy’s Jet.” I picked the ad because I’m getting on a plane early tomorrow morning and it is decidedly not the Playboy Jet. Does Playboy even have the jet anymore? My guess is no, [...]

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Beer In Ads #222: Bob Uecker, Mr. Baseball

October 22, 2010

Friday’s ad is the fourth baseball-themed one, which I’ll be continuing through the World Series. The ad is from 1982 and features baseball personality Bob Uecker, who Johnny Carson dubbed “Mr. Baseball.” This was one his earliest ads for Miller Lite, when they started trying to convince men to drink a low-calorie beer. It features [...]

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Beer In Ads #213: Miller Bock Beer

October 11, 2010

Monday’s ad is for a bock beer in honor of the Dutch holiday, Bokbierdag. I don’t know when, but at one point Miller Brewing made a bock. The ad features the iconic Miller witch riding a white goat. And here’s a label for the beer, though I’d guess it’s older than the ad.

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Beer In Ads #130: Miller High Life & Ping Pong

June 15, 2010

Tuesday’s ad is for Miller High Life, most likely from the late 1950s or 60s, when ping pong in paneled rec rooms was all the rage. And how about that tagline? “Sparkling … flavorful … distinctive.”

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Sucked Into The Vortex

May 7, 2010

This came out a month ago but somehow it escaped my notice then. MillerCoors unveiled their latest gimmick to sell more beer to wholesalers meeting in Las Vegas. According to Brand Week, it’s called the Miller Vortex and described as “a bottle with specially designed interior grooves that ‘create a vortex as you’re pouring the [...]

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Beer In Ads #97: Miller High Life Goes Fishing

April 28, 2010

Wednesday’s ad is from 1946 and is a beautiful painting of two people fishing. It’s for Miller High Life and is surprisingly uncluttered for the time period. It looks like the fisherman got his hook caught in the woman’s shorts, which is pretty funny in an odd way.

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MillerCoors: Is A Global Merger Possible?

March 22, 2010

Several sources are pointing out a Reuters interview last week with Peter Swinburn, head of MolsonCoors. In that interview, Swinburn suggests that while he considers his company to be a “buyer,” he doesn’t discount the notion that MolsonCoors could be a takeover target. He further remarked that “SABMiller, Molson’s partner in the MillerCoors joint venture, [...]

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Beer In Ads #64: Miller High Life Witch

March 12, 2010

Friday’s ad is for Miller High Life featuring the “Girl in the Moon,” which was originally created in the early 1900′s by an unknown artist. The beer itself debuted in 1903 and was advertised with the girl in the moon from the beginning, though to me she looks more like a witch. I think it’s [...]

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Beer In Ads #44: Miller High Life Plays Chess

February 15, 2010

Monday’s ad originally was published September 15, 1958 and is for Miller High Life, “The Champagne of Bottled Beer.” It’s a beautiful illustration of a man playing chess with only the beer, bottle and Miller logo in color. The art has an MC Escher quality to it, and though it’s signed, even at the original [...]

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