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Beer In Ads #2264: The Crisp Refresher

May 2, 2017 By Jay Brooks


Tuesday’s ad is for Ballantine, from 1959. In this ad, another simple one, a full glass of Ballantine Beer hovers above a beautiful ocean with a man fishing from a rock below. I’m not quite sure why that makes it “the largest-selling beer in the East” or why it’s “the crisp refresher,” but I am inexplicably thirsty.

Ballantine-1959-ocean

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



Comments

  1. Don Butters says

    February 8, 2018 at 4:53 pm

    Didn’t one of these ads have a Chinese guy who said, “Ballantine, largest-selling beer in East.” And the sound effects person punctuated the end of the commercial by bashing a gong?

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