Tuesday’s ad is for Michelob, one of the brands created by Anheuser-Busch as a draft-only beer in 1896. It was first packaged in 1961, and its distinctive teardrop bottle won a design award the following year. But that was replaced in 1967 “for efficiency in the production line,” but reverted to a traditional bottle in 2002. This ad is from 1968, and features a Michelob bottle anthropomorphized with eyelashes and a speech bubble saying “Sometimes I wonder if you like me for myself … or just my shape. Hmm. And of course, at the bottom of the ad, is the tagline “In Beer, Going First Class Is Michelob.”
