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Beer In Ads #327: George Sanders For Blatz

March 9, 2011 By Jay Brooks

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Wednesday’s ad is for Blatz Beer, and features Hollywood leading man George Sanders, whose most famous role was probably in All About Eve in 1950, though I know him for playing Simon Templar in the Saint series in the 1940s (I’m a huge fan of Leslie Charteris’ “The Saint” books, movies and TV shows). The funniest part of this ad is the headline: “I’ve been to Milwaukee, I ought to know … Blatz is Milwaukee’s Finest Beer!. Yeah, ’cause to visit a place is to know everything about it. I’m not exactly sure when the ads is from, though there’s a small “100” in the lower right-hand corner suggesting 1951, which would have been the Blatz Brewery‘s 100th anniversary, having been founded in 1851.

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Comments

  1. beerman49 says

    March 11, 2011 at 10:11 pm

    Of the lousy choices available for “Milwaukee’s Finest Beer” before craft brews, PBR wins hands down in my mind – but is it even brewed there these days since being bought out by a label-owning megabrewer? It was malty, but had enough hops for reasonable balance

    Blatz (if it still exists) & Schlitz (” the beer that made Milwaukee famous” per their ads, & which, like Miller, lacked hops) have been reduced to generic status, as have many of the older regional lagers throughout the country. Forget Miller products – they never heard of hops! LMAO when I see their current ads for “triple hopped” Lite – must be one cluster each at 3 stages during the boil 🙂

    I’m a “hophead”, but if circumstances in a bar (no micros/good imports available on tap/bottled) reduce me to drinking “old name” lager, my #1 is Yeungling back east; here in CA, I don’t worry much, except in Korean, Chinese, Mexican, & low-end “chain” restaurants or the occasional “dive” I might find myself in.

    That ad was not preposterous for its time (few knew better), but certainly would be over the edge now.

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