21 Jan 2009
One Second Commercial
Author: Gile
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Name: Gile
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About: My first beer was Budweiser. I was about 9 or 10, Dad and I were broken down and the side of the road and all there was to drink was Budweiser. So I had a swig of his, hated it!
I didn't drink beer again until I joined the Marine Corps. I was in Quantico, attending Small Computer Systems Specialist school, when I accidentally knocked a beer out the fridge and broke it. My buddies said now I gotta drink one! The rest is history. The broken beer was a Red Dog by the way.
Now days I am really a hop head that enjoys the IPAs [Stone IPA; Lagunitas IPA] and Douple IPAs [Moylan's; Hair of the Dog Blue Dot]. I also like Belgians [St Bernardus; Delirium; Three Philosopher's] a lot! I also like the Stouts and Porters [Black Butte] as well.
I enjoy going to breweries to sample as well as going to pubs and taverns. I also like enjoying beer with friends and bouncing ideas off of other intelligent people as well. Last time I was at O'Brien's I was shooting the shit with a couple of random strangers.
I hope to someday do a pub/tavern crawl across Europe. That's all I want. Simple.
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I heard a radio ad on my way home today that High Life [aka Miller] will not be spending the $3 million to place an advertisement during the Super Bowl. Instead they are placing a one second ad. Can Miller really get people to want to drink more Miller with only one second? Does it cost a mere %50,000 like the math says?
This brings up another subject on advertising: Why don’t craft breweries advertise? Simple answer, they don’t need to. If their beer is good, then people will talk about it, review and pass it along. I have yet to see a commercial for a craft brew. I am willing to guess that if one does come out, it’ll be Stone Brewing Company.
Post in the comments if you agree, disagree or wanna tell me how I spelled “the” wrong.
UPDATE: I failed to see the one second commercial. Did anyone catch it? Was it all just a marketing prank? Sound off in the comments!
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January 21st, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Perhaps a sign of the times, Miller may be feeling the crunch like us all. All of us that is except for the craft breweries that make premium beverages of course!
January 22nd, 2009 at 7:12 am
You can watch the proposed ads here. Kinda funny campaign but that’s what I would expect from a macro brewer that spends more money on advertising than on a good tasting product.
http://www.1secondad.com/
January 22nd, 2009 at 7:15 am
P.S. I think you misused the percent symbol in your third sentence of the first paragraph. Wiki tells us that “In mathematics, a percentage is a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100 [Citation Needed]” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent
I suggest you review your posts for proper grammar, spelling, AND percent sign utilization before posting in thefuture.
February 3rd, 2009 at 4:25 pm
I saw it. “High LIfe!