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Beer In Ads #1688: Hem And Haw On Flavor

September 24, 2015 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is for Schlitz, from 1963. This is from the “Real Gusto” series that Schlitz ran for a few years in the 1960s. This one featured, unusually, a ginger man, but it was this sentence in the ad copy that really caught my eye. “It’s brewed light (with just the kiss of the hops) yet it doesn’t hem and haw on flavor.” That’s an awesome turn of phrase. Next time I find a weak beer, it will definitely “hem and haw on flavor.”

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, History, Schlitz



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