# Best Beer Commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** beer\ **Created:** [July 14, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beer-commercials/364473 "2006-07-14T15:07:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beer-commercials/364473/21 "2006-07-16T02:30:41Z")
A case could be made that commercials are art, although I don’t want to hear it. Moved from IMHO to CS. ---
**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beer-commercials/364473/22 "2006-07-16T02:31:45Z")
Well, I found [the canoe one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxiQGOvlowc&search=canoe%20beer) which I love. There is at least one more in the ‘Made from Beer’ series. Anyone know where to locate a copy? It’s the one that goes ’ It’s brewed in big metal things! It gets driven around by horses! etc etc’. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beer-commercials/364473/23 "2006-07-16T02:59:29Z")
“Alex, you’d better be drinking your water.” ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beer-commercials/364473/24 "2006-07-16T03:03:18Z")
No contest. [This](http://www.videoclipstream.com/akamai/therant/rant.html) is the best one (the beer advertised is lousy though) ---
**Author:** ![Amethyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@Amethyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amethyst)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beer-commercials/364473/25 "2006-07-18T17:31:05Z")
My favourite beer ad, ever, was for Steinlager (a beer from New Zealand). During the 1995 America’s Cup, Team New Zealand (Black Magic), sponsered by Steinlager, was racing OneAustralia. OneAustralia basically buckled and sank in less than 90 seconds. (Note: everyone was rescued). The next day, a full page ad appeared in the New Zealand newspapers with the following message: “Bad luck Australia. Try sinking one of these instead” Accompanied by a picture of a bottle of Steinlager. The tag line at the end said: “Steinlager. The only thing that goes down faster than an Australian yacht.” ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beer-commercials/364473/26 "2006-07-18T23:17:58Z")
[QUOTE=Kitchen Wench] I’m diggin’ the new Red Stripe commercials. **BOO, CREEPY FOOT DOCTOR!** Hooray, BEER! [/QUOTE] I have to give it to the Red Stripe ad, where the guy with the accent says “Sir, you are very ugly.” Ugly guy drinks beer “Sir, you are very handsome.” hh ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beer-commercials/364473/27 "2006-07-18T23:25:27Z")
According to wikipedia: “In 2000, Guinness’s 1999 advert Surfer was named the best television commercial of all time in a UK poll conducted by The Sunday Times and Channel 4. Surfer was produced by the advertising agency Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO; the advertisement can be downloaded from their website.” It never aired in the US as far as I can tell. [http://www.amvbbdo.co.uk/tv\_video/Guiness\_surfer.mov](http://www.amvbbdo.co.uk/tv_video/Guiness_surfer.mov) ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beer-commercials/364473/28 "2006-07-18T23:53:35Z")
[QUOTE=handsomeharry] I have to give it to the Red Stripe ad, where the guy with the accent says “Sir, you are very ugly.” Ugly guy drinks beer “Sir, you are very handsome.” hh [/QUOTE] Actually, the point was that even the ugliest man would look attractive next to Red Stripes ugly bottle. And I love the Red Stripe commercials. They’re so good I’d buy the beer even if it was garbage. Thankfully it’s not. Hooray Beer!! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beer-commercials/364473/29 "2006-07-18T23:58:36Z")
_From the land of sky blue waters…_ ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beer-commercials/364473/30 "2006-07-19T00:12:22Z")
[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus] According to wikipedia: “In 2000, Guinness’s 1999 advert Surfer was named the best television commercial of all time in a UK poll conducted by The Sunday Times and Channel 4. Surfer was produced by the advertising agency Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO; the advertisement can be downloaded from their website.” It never aired in the US as far as I can tell. [http://www.amvbbdo.co.uk/tv\_video/Guiness\_surfer.mov](http://www.amvbbdo.co.uk/tv_video/Guiness_surfer.mov) [/QUOTE] And for good reason. “That’s a Spicy Meat-a-ball” is more compelling than that commercial. ---
**Author:** ![BluePitbull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beer-commercials/364473/31 "2006-07-19T00:35:04Z")
[QUOTE=justcallmeDave] Those “Real Men of Genius” commercials are really funny. It’s too bad A-B won’t let people post them on their websites. [/QUOTE] Love those ads ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beer-commercials/364473/32 "2006-07-19T02:40:25Z")
Horay! Dopers! Loving the Red Stripe. For some reason, I laugh at the slogan every time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beer-commercials/364473.md?page=1)