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Beer In Ads #1464: Pronounce It Mick-A-Lobe

February 12, 2015 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is for Michelob, from 1967. Apparently, in the late Sixties people still had trouble pronouncing Michelob. It reminds me of the packaging on Lagunitas, which includes “Say ‘lah-goo-knee-tuss'” on their carriers because when the brewery first opened, founder Tony Magee worried that most people wouldn’t know how to pronounce the name of the small west Marin town. So okay, it’s “Mick-A-Lobe,” “Now that’s an order.” Also, “In beer, going first class is Michelob. Period.” Sadly, that is how the brand was positioned. It even seemed to work for a while.

mick-a-lobe

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Anheuser-Busch, History, Michelob



Comments

  1. Dean says

    February 14, 2015 at 2:27 pm

    You forgot to mention, yet another mysterious half-full bottle next to a full mug. ?????

    BTW, looking forward to class on Wednesday!

    • Jay Brooks says

      February 14, 2015 at 2:48 pm

      Ha, good catch. There was so much else going on in the ad, that I left that one go.

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