So, what beer would you say has the most famous commercials? Which of these quotes seems the most familiar to you?

  • It’s Miller time!
  • From the Land of Sky-Blue Waters
  • Tastes great, less filling
  • So tonight, tonight, let it be Lowenbrau
  • Give me a light… Bud light!
  • The beer that made Milwaukee famous
  • Everything you always wanted in a beer… and less.
  • Foster’s: Australian for beer
  • It doesn’t get any better than this.
  • The King of Beers

Want to take a quiz (only 10 questions) to test your beer slogan knowledge? Visit the Beer Slogans quiz at Bella Online.

And here’s a good Database of Beer Slogans.

So anyway, what beer commericials do you even remember? That’s a good sign of which are the most famous. I’d have to say that, in all deference to the others, Budweiser has the most classic and most memorable commericials. Let’s see… we’ve had the Frogs (Bud-Weis-Er), the lizards who reacted to the frogs, the Wazzup series (”True”), Cedric The Entertainer doing his dance thing (and sometimes spraying beer all over his date because of his dance), Leon the egocentric football player, the donkey who wanted to be a Clydesdale, and of course the classic Clydesdales! They’ve played football, thrown snowballs, and done all kinds of crazy things in the name of Budweiser. Plus, you KNOW it’s getting to be close to Christmas when you start seeing the Clydesdales pulling the sleigh through a winter town, with the Christmas lights all lit and the classic Choral Arrangement of “When you say Bud, you’ve said it all” playing in the background! I heard that commercial from the kitchen this weekend and knew that the Clydesdales were back and it was officially Christmastime. (Isn’t it odd how the best Christmas commercials are all for beers?)

BeerHistory.com offers us Beer Commercials: A History, which provides a nice history of tv commercials for beers.

And if you want to see a GIGANTIC list of Beer Commercials (with downloads), visit http://home.tiscali.nl/beercollection/movies.htm

Budweiser’s own commercials can be found here: http://www.budweiser.com/wholesale/

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