Historic Beer Ads
In case you travel back in time and need to pick a beer.
- Better Know a Beer Cap #83: Bud Select 55, a discontinued and now obsolete one-up on Miller 64. From that romantic, bygone stretch of the early 2000s where calorie conscious drinkers hadn't yet discovered Michelob Ultra, yet still thought Bud Light was just too dang viscous.
- Astra reminding you to beware of "Schlägertypen" or "thug types." I consider this one of the funnier beer ads I've seen, with an unusual streak of socioeconomic commentary (laudatory). (I explain a bit more in alt text)
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- If anyone has one of these caps lying around I'd love to discuss a trade.
- Bottle cap for Peoples Beer, an Oshkosh, WI brewery bought by Theodore Mack in 1969, making it one of the country's first Black-owned breweries. Not my cap, just a rando internet photo, though I'm hoping to acquire one.
- You can read more about the Peoples story here: www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2020/7/...
- Shiner, circa 2008.
- Biere Croix de Lorraine. Not to be confused with Coeur d'Alene.
- Heard some folk wanted to keep politics out of beer. lol If y'all knew how many racist and sexist ads I leave outta this feed...
- Better Know a Beer Cap #81-82: Johnny Appleseed hard cider, circa 2014. A wholly astroturfed Anheuser-Busch creation, a counter (I assume) to Angry Orchard. Looks like the brand was discontinued around 2017-2018. cc @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social
- Budweiser, likely from a mag like Ebony, but I'm not 100% sure. Unknown date.
- This is interesting, I didn't realize Carling's ramp-up of US production had happened in the 40s. I mainly know their ads from the 50s, and their laser focus on bougie dudes. (via Duke University)
