If you have young kids, then this is their day. First, you have to strap them into the super hero or cartoon character costume that they excitedly picked out last weekend. Then you herd them out the door and into the street where you cautiously lead them from neighbor’s house to neighbor’s house […]
Filed under: Beer, halloween costumes, holiday on October 31st, 2009 | No Comments »
Now, c’mon, this is funny!
The tag line, if you couldn’t quite make it out, is “Anything but sweet.” See, the point of that beer ad is to demonstrate that the new Raspberry Ale from Jamieson brewery in Australia isn’t as sweet as one might think, given that it’s a fruit beer. Naturally the […]
Filed under: Beer, marketing on October 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »
You probably remember a few months ago when every news organization on the planet was fooled for a day by a spoof report that blamed beer pong for the spread of STDs on college campuses. Well, this time it doesn’t seem like a joke.
The big worry now is swine flu – you know, that […]
Filed under: Beer, Beer Pong on October 19th, 2009 | No Comments »
Are you sick of this? Are you sick of doing a beer bong but wishing you could share the experience with your girlfriend? And two of her friends? And the guys they’re banging?
Well now you can! Thanks to Bongzilla! The answer to all of your multi-beer bonging problems. With just […]
Filed under: Beer, drinking game, beer bong on October 9th, 2009 | No Comments »
*Insert your own beer goggles joke here*
Let me start out by saying that I don’t know anything about the Horny Goat Brewing Company except that it is a brewery in Wisconsin and a really creative marketer works there. I had never heard of it before stumbling across this blog entry about the free condoms.
Naturally, […]
Filed under: Beer on September 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
No doubt by now you’ve seen the ads. They are oddly compelling with the Most Interesting Man in the World (MIMW) staring at the camera with an expression that is somewhere between intensity and boredom. After we are told some amusingly cryptic things about how interesting he is - he once had an […]
Filed under: Beer on September 16th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A few weeks ago I mentioned a dust up over a beer with higher than usual alcohol and some annoying UK based groups who decided to complain about it.
That beer is brewed by a Scottish company called BrewDog and this isn’t the first time that they’ve locked horns with some anal Brits. As it […]
Filed under: Beer on September 11th, 2009 | No Comments »
It might not be the most obvious combination. When a lot of people think of jazz they think of the bebop era in the ’50’s or the swing period of the ’40’s, a low point for American beer. In these decades the beer industry was dominated by just a few companies and one […]
Filed under: Beer, jazz on August 31st, 2009 | No Comments »
This comes from Canada where the marketing geniuses at Molson Coors got in some hot water over their cold beer campaign. They’ve been promoting the coldness of their beer – a claim that is completely puzzling to anyone with half a brain – and thought that it would be fun poke some fun at […]
Filed under: Beer, marketing, coors on August 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
The recent so-called beer summit had a lot of people talking about beer in public. This is really kind of unusual in the US where we love beer but we’re supposed to be a bit ashamed of it. Whenever we do talk about beer in public we are required to make nervous little […]
Filed under: Beer on August 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »