Vintage TV Beer Commercials
A friend forwarded a link this weekend to a classic beer commercial, which promptly started me on a 30-minute binge of vintage suds ads via You Tube. I thought I’d share some of the pain. First up: Hamm’s.
PBR, before its ironic hipness:
Schlitz, with McLean Stevenson proving, once again, that he’ll do anything for a buck:
Schaefer, for when you really want to get drunk:
Schlitz, your preferred disco-era suds:
Miller Lite, more disco era, complete with blatant racism:
Miller High Life, what every ’50s-era hostess craves:
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2:34 pm
I love the vintage beer commercials. More than I love the vintage beer.
8:35 am
The Miller Lite disco man one is fake. The giveaway? COMIC SANS… released in 1994.
12:08 pm
The Miller Lite 70’s man is clearly home-made. At first I thought, why would a professional ad agency use Comic Sans? Then I thought, oh right, they wouldn’t.
12:45 pm
Where are the vintage rainier ad’s? The running rainiers and the motorcycle ad’s are far better than these..
3:59 pm
Does anybody have a copy of the Schaefer Beer commercial where the “rookie” is made to sing the Schaefer jingle and he is a knockout? Nearly makes them all cry. Better than the Britain’s Got Talent surprises.
4:24 pm
It is hard to believe that this was a sales booster some decades ago. It is believable that people used to take those commercials seriously.
5:35 pm
i was also looking for the “rookie on the barrel” Shaefer commercial with no luck!!!
6:22 pm
What about OLYMPIA. The Artiesians were cool.
3:53 am
Haha i love with bear
8:50 am
you’re forgetting some of the best from UC (maker of Saranac):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn7b2djfMKY&feature=related
9:17 am
Not only that(comic sans), but groovy is spelled wrong.
12:07 am
what a great collection of ads!
6:27 am
I added this post to my favorites <3 More of this plz
11:54 am
It was a beer commercial in the 60’s. A man lived next door (reaching distance across an alley to a brewery). He was watching a ball game and gets up and uses a fishing pole with a hook and reaches across the alley into the window of the brewery next door and grabs a bottle of beer off the conveyor line. He opens it up and sits down to watch the ball game. I do not remember what kind of beer the commercial was but it had to be a classic. Would love to see it again……… thanks