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Beer In Ads #205: Ballantine Clown

September 29, 2010 By Jay Brooks

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Wednesday’s ad is an early ad for Ballantine, one of the first to use their iconic three-rings of “body,” “purity” and “flavor.” Unfortunately, it also features an ugly, frightening clown — but then I hate clowns.

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



Comments

  1. Mr. Nuts says

    September 30, 2010 at 10:02 pm

    Yeah, the clown’s unfortunate. Especially when the three rings story is such a cool one.

    Later ads did a much better job of communicating the heritage of the rings in a more sophisticated, and effective, manner.

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