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May Emil Sick rest in peace.
very sad. try mountain fresh Kokanee, it’s union made!
Yay, I can finally comment without an account!
wasn’t there some sort of dispute over the ivars/rainier ads some time ago? how quaint it all seems. 🙂
Rainier Beer Busts in the parks. Free beer and Tower of Power. Yeah those were the days.
Do do you think it will affect Rainer’s sales when Mount Rainer erupts and kills thousands?
Rainier Beer was like making love in a boat….fucking close to water.
Makes me think of the Sea Galley Crab Legs commercials!
Mind you, those ads helped the company earn a 35-38% market share, which is absolutely insane for a local beer company. National beers could only dream of getting a local share on a single brand of beer. So yeah, those ads were great, doing exactly what they were made to do.
But the company was sold to Australian interests, who immediately fired the ad agency (Remember those ‘Pretty Cool eh?’ ads?) and quickly watched their local NW market share drop like a stone through a wet paper bag. Then it was sold to Anheuser Busch and the entire brew process was moved to the east coast, basically buying the name brand, firing everyone else.
Wasnt much of a fan of the beer, even when I was old enough to buy it. But I do miss the smell of brewing hops when you drove passed it on I-5.
Mmmm Kokanee. I <3 me some Kokanee.
What will it take to get the big red R back on top of the old brewery?
Ah Grant, the reasons you are my friend are many and varied and shit like this is just one of them. I love you, man.
P.S.
Remember Coors commercials?
From the land of sky bloooooo waters……
I think those “land of sky blue waters” ads were Hamm’s, about as close to water as you can get and still be beer.
It’s in the water. That’s why it’s yellow.
@11 Apparently the Museum of History and Industry has the “R” on display.
I miss those old commercials and no one ever knows what I’m doing when I imitate the Raaaaaaiiiiineeeeeeerrrr Beeeeerrrr motorcycle noise. I was beginning to think I dreamed it up. Thank you slog for letting me know that it really was a commercial and I didn’t dream it.
Oh whoops, I meant Hamm’s. Do they even sell that any more???
You should watch the one with frogs that budweiser ripped off…
We’re missing a Rainier! Can you help?
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