Coors was unavailable east of the Mississippi. The whole premise of the movie "Smokey and the Bandit" was to run a truckload of Coors from Texarkana to Atlanta for a big party. "The boys are thirsty in Atlanta, and there's beer in Texarkana, and we'll bring it back no matter what it takes!"
I recall this myth from Indiana State in the 70s - the trunkload of Coors - but don't recall ever tasting one til I got to CA, where there are so many home brews that no one drinks Coors
I was born in 1974, so these commercials were before my time. My grandfather bought some Busch Bavarian and the people he had over thought it was a classy beer back then.
This is when beer actually TASTED like beer...real beer drinkers don't want their beer to taste like pumpkin spice or grapefruit or oranges or over hopped...young people nowadays think they are on the cutting edge of beer Brewing but in reality they don't know Jack shit about it...pabst blue ribbon is the best beer on the planet, and it hasn't changed since 1844...all these modern beers SUCK!!!
Fun commercials I like the Piles once best Drewreys was the beer my mother loved best Coors really but they did not sell it in Chicago back in the 50's to 70's in the Chicago area
No screw off caps, no pop tops. You had to have a can and bottle opener, also commonly known as a "church key" for those who are old enough to remember....
Since I am a child of the 60s, I certainly do remember when beer can had to be opened with a opener. And if it was a can, you had to put in two holes for better flow...
I'm 69. When I drank I preferred beer 🍺. Overall I preferred Coors, and not light beer. Although I've virtually tried them all. When I was 16 to the age of 19 I worked at a Beer and Wine store in Dallas. The owner back in the early 70s had no problem with us drinking on the job as long as we could maintain working. 😂. So I'd try out every beer and bottle of wine inside the cooler vault. Some of that stuff was extra tough. Like thunderbird and md 2020. Back then cigarettes were 50 cents a pack and a six pack was $ 1.49 + 7 cents tax making the total $1.56. A case was $ 5.66. It was different then. Just like all passing times. Times change but people basically remain the same within. As good or as bad as ever. As smart or as dumb as ever. Cops back in Dallas in those days just made you pour out your alcohol and told you to go home if they caught you driving drunk. The only time you'd see someone get arrested was if they had a wreck while driving drunk. And of course no intrusive seat belt laws or state babysitting laws like it being illegal to ride in the back of pickup trucks existed.
My late father knew a thing or 2 about beer, he was mostly a Michelob drinker but he also enjoyed Old Style & Pabst Blue Ribbon on occasion. My granddad was big on Falstaff & Old Milwaukee.
nice compilation, I was sad today to find out piels has been discontinued. I love my Sam Adam's, Becks etc. but still like an old fashion beer now and then.
Interesting that the Coors commercials--even back when the first in this set was filmed--had that pilsner sitting on a rock by the river/rapids. That's one thing I loved about the Coors commercials of the 70s.
WOW, You had some I heard of and never heard off. I only have had Bud, Coors, Pabst, Blatz and Miller that you had in the video. Thanks Val. Good stuff
I remember travelling west-to-east, base (Clovis, NM) to home (Louisville, KY) on leave during my USAF days and having my dad call and remind me: "OK, son, bring the Coors Beer east and I'll buy the White Castles (burgers) for you to take west!"
Drewerys beer originated in the late 1870’s in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Wikipedia says it became very popular in western Canada. The U.S. product was brewed in Indiana.
Love these commercials! The days when every beer tasted like seltzer water compared to the top craft beers of today. I would love to go back in time as a kid and hand my Grandpa a Dogfish, Ommegang Abbey Ale or Founder's Breakfast Stout.
3:46- "Bert & Harry Piel" [Bob Elliott & Ray Goulding] were the famous duo who pitched Piels Beer from 1955 through 1960. In 1962, they briefly returned......but the reason most people laughed at their commercials, and didn't buy enough Piels was because it had a LOUSY taste! These new spots lasted about a year- and Piels was sold to a Detroit brewing firm in 1963 (which also made Stroh's, Drewery's, and several other regional brands). Piels' New York breweries closed for good, ten years later. Today, Pabst markets the "Piels" brand.
Anyone know the beer commercial with an iron worker 10 or 20 floors up on the steel frame, and the chorus line is "Because I'm a bare handed man, and I do the work I like best"???? Probably mid to late 60's maybe early 70's.
Stag is still popular in my area around St Louis Missouri. I am 70 and in my teens Stag was every bit as big as Bud and Busch. They just did not have the marketing team
I remember the beers taste & color from the 50's & 60's. To bad all those Cleveland breweries are gone now. And so is the flavor...what I can only remember to describe as, " that good beer flavor" that lingered in the mouth for just a lil bit. Better hop balance & malt flavors back then. I've tried three times already to duplicate the beers from those days. close, but not there yet. I think they used more malt & hops compared to corn & rice adjuncts like today's BMC's.
I always wondered what those beers back then tasted like. Especially the ones that are no longer around. I know Pabst makes a bunch of them, but I don't think they are the same as what they were back then. Even in the '70's I remember getting a case of Hamms for $3.99. It was good, cheap beer with flavor. Not sure if the '70's recipe was the same as in the '50's, but what is made now by PBR is garbage.
You rarely see beer commercials on Television any more. There used to be loads of them years ago !
Coors was unavailable east of the Mississippi. The whole premise of the movie "Smokey and the Bandit" was to run a truckload of Coors from Texarkana to Atlanta for a big party.
"The boys are thirsty in Atlanta, and there's beer in Texarkana, and we'll bring it back no matter what it takes!"
Theodore Hamm lent Adolph Coors money on the condition Coors would not sell east of the Mississippi
@@Playsinvain Hamm's, the beer repressing.
@@msquaretheoriginal nice. Not only for Coors, but also for the nostalgia freaks and collectors. In my case maybe Hamm’s the beer regressing
I recall this myth from Indiana State in the 70s - the trunkload of Coors - but don't recall ever tasting one til I got to CA, where there are so many home brews that no one drinks Coors
I was born in 1974, so these commercials were before my time. My grandfather bought some Busch Bavarian and the people he had over thought it was a classy beer back then.
19:30 I'm definitely wrapping my tankard handle in rawhide like the Jax ad.
The quality on some of these is absolutely superb.
This is when beer actually TASTED like beer...real beer drinkers don't want their beer to taste like pumpkin spice or grapefruit or oranges or over hopped...young people nowadays think they are on the cutting edge of beer Brewing but in reality they don't know Jack shit about it...pabst blue ribbon is the best beer on the planet, and it hasn't changed since 1844...all these modern beers SUCK!!!
I get great appreciation from seeing these commercials about beer!!! It's a must see
Joe Conte Augustiner!!
Fun commercials I like the Piles once best Drewreys was the beer my mother loved best Coors really but they did not sell it in Chicago back in the 50's to 70's in the Chicago area
I’d like to sip out of the Hamm’s can at 8:47. What a classy design!
No screw off caps, no pop tops. You had to have a can and bottle opener, also commonly known as a "church key" for those who are old enough to remember....
Since I am a child of the 60s, I certainly do remember when beer can had to be opened with a opener. And if it was a can, you had to put in two holes for better flow...
I still have several , in 2 different Lengths !!
25 years my dad’s bar had only blatz on tap.. bar was packed, and the keg was changed every couple of days. Freshness from the tap
I'm 69. When I drank I preferred beer 🍺. Overall I preferred Coors, and not light beer. Although I've virtually tried them all. When I was 16 to the age of 19 I worked at a Beer and Wine store in Dallas. The owner back in the early 70s had no problem with us drinking on the job as long as we could maintain working. 😂. So I'd try out every beer and bottle of wine inside the cooler vault. Some of that stuff was extra tough. Like thunderbird and md 2020. Back then cigarettes were 50 cents a pack and a six pack was $ 1.49 + 7 cents tax making the total $1.56. A case was $ 5.66. It was different then. Just like all passing times. Times change but people basically remain the same within. As good or as bad as ever. As smart or as dumb as ever. Cops back in Dallas in those days just made you pour out your alcohol and told you to go home if they caught you driving drunk. The only time you'd see someone get arrested was if they had a wreck while driving drunk. And of course no intrusive seat belt laws or state babysitting laws like it being illegal to ride in the back of pickup trucks existed.
My late father knew a thing or 2 about beer, he was mostly a Michelob drinker but he also enjoyed Old Style & Pabst Blue Ribbon on occasion. My granddad was big on Falstaff & Old Milwaukee.
Strohs Ironcity rollingrock
The Coors ads are like nature documentaries.
Boring AF
nice compilation, I was sad today to find out piels has been discontinued. I love my Sam Adam's, Becks etc. but still like an old fashion beer now and then.
Interesting that the Coors commercials--even back when the first in this set was filmed--had that pilsner sitting on a rock by the river/rapids. That's one thing I loved about the Coors commercials of the 70s.
My uncle loved black label till he couldn't get it anymore
Still in Canada i think
WOW, You had some I heard of and never heard off. I only have had Bud, Coors, Pabst, Blatz and Miller that you had in the video. Thanks Val. Good stuff
Incredible! Thanks for all the work that went into posting this stuff!
remember when my grandda poured salt own the lip of his pabst can and dranked away
I want a beer!
L'Chaim! 🍺
Great to see Terry Becker in the Schmidt's banjo clip (Sharkey from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea).
I remember travelling west-to-east, base (Clovis, NM) to home (Louisville, KY) on leave during my USAF days and having my dad call and remind me: "OK, son, bring the Coors Beer east and I'll buy the White Castles (burgers) for you to take west!"
good deal
My grandfather was stationed at Cannon air force base in the seventies.
If he's still with us, ask him how...uh, unique...Clovis was! (I was there '74-'79.)
I was stationed there from 1980-1984. I heard the area is overrun with gangs now. Sad
Hamm lent Adolph Coors money on the promise to not sell east of the Mississippi
Drewerys beer originated in the late 1870’s in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Wikipedia says it became very popular in western Canada. The U.S. product was brewed in Indiana.
Love these commercials! The days when every beer tasted like seltzer water compared to the top craft beers of today. I would love to go back in time as a kid and hand my Grandpa a Dogfish, Ommegang Abbey Ale or Founder's Breakfast Stout.
17:33. 1957. Animation by Joop Geesink's "Dollywood" unit in Amsterdam.
Barry, is there NOTHING you don't intimately know?
Thanks for posting this video. So much fun watching these old commercials. The jingles were pretty terrific I think. How about that Budweiser voice?
Bob and Ray?? Mabel....BLACK LABEL.
My dad got so drunk as well as the shits from Miller beer. LOL He was a Schlitz man. Damn Miller beer !
Nah your dad was just a weak puss that can't handle REAL beer
Maybe he should have drunk Guinness for starters. 🍺🍻🇮🇪🍀😁
@@dariowiter3078 What's wrong with Foster's Australian Lager? 🇦🇺
That first Schmidt's commercial looks like it was filmed on top of the Munster house.
That's Universal Studios Backlot, my friend! 😁😁😁😁😁
Delicate. Strange. Wondrous.
3:46- "Bert & Harry Piel" [Bob Elliott & Ray Goulding] were the famous duo who pitched Piels Beer from 1955 through 1960. In 1962, they briefly returned......but the reason most people laughed at their commercials, and didn't buy enough Piels was because it had a LOUSY taste! These new spots lasted about a year- and Piels was sold to a Detroit brewing firm in 1963 (which also made Stroh's, Drewery's, and several other regional brands). Piels' New York breweries closed for good, ten years later. Today, Pabst markets the "Piels" brand.
MillerCoors makes Pabst, Hamm's, and the original Schlitz at their Milwaukee brewery.
Anyone know the beer commercial with an iron worker 10 or 20 floors up
on the steel frame, and the chorus line is "Because I'm a bare handed
man, and I do the work I like best"???? Probably mid to late 60's maybe
early 70's.
The Schmidts commercial sounds like a German Army recruitment ad.
I miss the good old days of Schmidt's. My grandfather always had a case in fridge in his bar in the basement. It was the first beer I ever tasted.
My first beer was Michelob regular.
Ja wohl, mein kommandant! 😁
@@dariowiter3078 Ein schönes bier! 🍺
I don't remember now when it changed anymore, but I can and do remember when you couldn't get Coors east of the mississippi................
The Theodore Hamm lent Adolph Coors money n the condition he would not sell beer east of theMississippi
Mr. Magoo is gonna get really shite faced with 3 cases of Stag beer.
Stag is still popular in my area around St Louis Missouri. I am 70 and in my teens Stag was every bit as big as Bud and Busch. They just did not have the marketing team
But he'd never get blind drunk....since he couldn't see straight, anyway 🥸
the Drewrys commercials were the best.
17:10- Mel Blanc, voice-over. Dick Tufeld, announcer.
Is that Mary Tyler Moore at 3:00?
No
Wish I could go back and show him how to pour a beer out of a tap.. three-quarters of the glasses is foam!!
Does anyone know what year the Pabst and Blatz commercials aired?
14:45- Ed Prentiss
Coors is still Brewed only in golden Colorado
And as racist towards the Latino community as ever.
@@distantandvague Who cares, really. They're n-words, anyway. 😒😒😒😒😒
scary face on the tree at 00:59
the first commercial seems almost dirty
piels brothers the original barttles and james
That's Bob & Ray doing those Piels beer commercials. 😆😆😆😆😆
Holy crap commercials were really dragged out
"Why do people like you like big D best?" Lolololololololololol
I remember the beers taste & color from the 50's & 60's. To bad all those Cleveland breweries are gone now. And so is the flavor...what I can only remember to describe as, " that good beer flavor" that lingered in the mouth for just a lil bit. Better hop balance & malt flavors back then. I've tried three times already to duplicate the beers from those days. close, but not there yet. I think they used more malt & hops compared to corn & rice adjuncts like today's BMC's.
I find it interesting that you have the Keystone bitter beer face!
Huh. Really? I have Bell's Palsy in the right side of my face. So it's not some made up face...not intentionally.
+unionrdr I meant no offense Sir.... I have filter issues! My mum says I have a face for radio!lol!
OK. my bad, I guess? It's hard to " read" inflections. Face for radio...ouchkabbible...
I always wondered what those beers back then tasted like. Especially the ones that are no longer around. I know Pabst makes a bunch of them, but I don't think they are the same as what they were back then. Even in the '70's I remember getting a case of Hamms for $3.99. It was good, cheap beer with flavor. Not sure if the '70's recipe was the same as in the '50's, but what is made now by PBR is garbage.
What? Where the Bear Whiz Beer ad?
You mean Hamm's? 😆
@@luisreyes1963 OK, a Hamm's will do if you've got a spare - see Firesign Theater for BWB
I know where my friends are
No Malt Liquor In The 50's And 60's?
Why is a bear afraid of a wolf??
The bear's a moron.
Cartoon logic.
Apparently Jax was the first beer sold in a six pack, or something.
Joy of living...lol what a joke , and they baught that line...lol😢
I payed for bees online and it hadn’t come yet