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Beer In Ads #2662: Beer Hunting Season

June 5, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Tuesday’s ad is for Schmidt, from the 1980s. The ad shows two proud men who’ve just bagged a big one on their hunting trip. Tied up on top of their wood-paneled Jeep is their quarry: a ginormous can of Schmidt Beer. As a kid, those collectible Schmidt beer cans with pheasants and other game birds were everywhere. I had a friend whose father traveled for work and brought home beer cans from where he went. Their basement rec room was literally covered in floor-to-ceiling custom shelves built to hold beer cans, and there were a lot of Schmidt cans among them. I don’t know why more breweries didn’t do likewise, or don’t do so today. Anyway, this is obviously a promotional poster, but it’s the best kind of advertising: the kind that doesn’t hit you over the head and is cool enough that you’d want to hang it up in your hunting lodge or basement bar.

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Filed Under: Beers Tagged With: Advertising, History



Comments

  1. Carl Glass says

    June 9, 2018 at 6:37 am

    As a one time beer can collector, I too loved the Schmidt cans with all the different wildlife.

    Oskar Blues had a 3 can series, where each can had part of a mural, about a year ago. You could put the 3 cans side-by-side to see the entire piece of art work.

    Nice, but not as impressive as the Schmidt cans.

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