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Beer In Ads #238: When One Is Out Of Schlitz, One Is Out Of Beer

November 8, 2010 By Jay Brooks

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Monday’s ad is for Schlitz, from — I’m guessing — the swinging, sophisticated sixties with a play on their famous slogan “when you’re out of Schlitz you’re out of beer” being rendered more proper, as “When One Is Out Of Schlitz, One Is Out Of Beer.”

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



Comments

  1. beerman49 says

    November 11, 2010 at 1:12 am

    Jay – the “When you’re out of … ” slogan ran for years, but I think the bottle is mid 70’s.

    I worked in a grocery store (SE edge of Montgomery Co, MD – DC suburb, heavily “blue-collar” & lower-income) 1971-78 . I cahsiered, stocked, & later ordered mucho beer. Those days, Miller High Life used “shortneck” bottles like that; Bud & the regional cheapies used no-neck “squatties”. All came in paper-enclosed 6’s for safe & easy stacking on the bottom shelf of an open cooler. If I remember right, Schlitz ran big promos when introducing that bottle. When I started, we sold Schlitz in cans & quarts only; before that bottle came out, we didn’t sell it in bottles because there was no reasonably safe way to stack 2 layers of bottles in the open cooler we had.

    Anchor’s bottle is very similar, but the neck is shorter, & they fill much more close to the top than Schlitz did those bottles (at least .5″ airspace).

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