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Trumer: Push The Button

September 26, 2012 By Jay Brooks

trumer
Just push the button, don’t hesitate. Seriously, just push the button below to watch others push the button. It’s a never-ending cycle of button pushing. Enjoy.

Filed Under: Beers, Breweries, Just For Fun Tagged With: Advertising, Austria, Video

Beer In Ads #701: Wonderful Beer

September 25, 2012 By Jay Brooks


Tuesday’s ad is again for Drewery’s, and I believe it’s probably a still from an animated television commercial. It has the stylized look of the animation from that period of time. It must have been a fun commercial.

drewrys_b

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

Beer In Ads #700: Reinheitsgebot Replica

September 24, 2012 By Jay Brooks


Monday’s ad is the 700th ad in this series! So I wanted to make it something special. This is a replica poster of the original 1516 Reinheitsgebot, one of history’s best marketing gimmicks. I’m not sure who it was created to promote, but it’s still a pretty cool piece of breweriana. Happy 700th.

reinheitsgebot-replica

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

How To Win The Battle For The Last Beer

September 24, 2012 By Jay Brooks

tiger-new
San Diego Brewing tweeted this cool ad for Tiger Beer, which they called a “funny commercial for crappy beer.” I don’t think of Tiger as a great beer certainly, more a middle-of-the-road industrial lager. But I may be biased since they had the good sense to make custom View-Master reels a few years ago. At any rate, the commercial is pretty clever, even if it may not make you rush out for some of the beer.

Filed Under: Beers, Breweries, Just For Fun Tagged With: Advertising, Asia, Video

Beer In Ads #699: Still More Flavor, Less Filling, More Fun!

September 21, 2012 By Jay Brooks


Friday’s ad is again from perhaps the 1950s, a third one for the Indiana brewery Drewerys. It uses the slogan “more flavor, less filling, more fun!” THis one has a third different model making faces to express each idea. Hilarious, that’s Big D. Yet again.

Drewrys-Big-D-2

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

Heineken James Bond Ad

September 21, 2012 By Jay Brooks

007-2 heineken
I know I should be complaining that the Ian Fleming character James Bond would never drink Heineken — and I have in the past — but this new commercial for Heineken, which debuted today, is too much fun. I’ve been a huge Bond fan since my dad took me to see Thunderball in the theater when I was six. So this is an especially fun ad since it features items, and people, from previous Bond films. How many can you spot?

Filed Under: Beers, Just For Fun Tagged With: Advertising, Film, Video

Beer In Ads #698: More More Flavor, Less Filling, More Fun!

September 20, 2012 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is from perhaps the 1950s, another one for the Indiana brewery Drewerys. It also uses the slogan “more flavor, less filling, more fun!” THis one has a different model making faces to express each idea. Hilarious, that’s Big D. Again.

Drewrys-Big-D-3

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

Beer In Ads #697: Compare The Real Ale Flavor Of This Genuine Ale

September 19, 2012 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad is again possibly from the 1950s, and is another ad for the Indiana brewery Drewerys. This one features a Canadian Mountie and the following confusing tagline. “Canada’s Pride Brand Since 1877 … A Product of U.S.A.”

Drewrys-Old-Stock

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

Beer In Ads #696: More Flavor, Less Filling, More Fun!

September 18, 2012 By Jay Brooks


Tuesday’s ad is from perhaps the 1950s, for the Indiana brewery Drewerys. I’m assuming this is before Miller introduced their Lite beer and the slogan “tastes great, less filling.” Drewerys is using the somewhat similar “more flavor, less filling, more fun!” How about the faces the model is making to express each idea. Hilarious, that’s Big D.

Drewrys-Big-D

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

Beer In Ads #695: Heute Bock

September 17, 2012 By Jay Brooks


Monday’s ad is from 1890, and is for a German, or at least German-speaking, country. The text, “Heute Bock,” translates as “today bock.” I’ve no idea if the ad, undoubtedly a poster of some kind, is for any particular brewery. It looks hand-colored. My guess is it was from a book of some sort. At the top is §11, which here in the states that symbol § is generally used in legal writing for “section” but in Europe it means paragraph in the same way we use the pilcrow sign ¶. So this was likely the cover or title page for Paragraph 11 of something. Anybody got a better explanation, or know what it’s from?

Bock-beer-1890

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

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