Original VB ad from 1984

[@brettmillman9137]

Great ad from the time. Voiced superbly by an aussie icon the late John Mellion.

[@peecee1384]

This is the old Australia. The real fair dinkum Australia, now gone and ruined. 😔

[@joedipietro2559]

@peecee1384 so true mate. We don't have an Australian automotive industry anymore. It's almost impossible to buy Australian made clothing as our shit government thought it was better to import others from Bangladesh and China. And only recently on 4 march 2024 I heard some supermarkets are importing fruit and vegetables such as pineapple and beetroot. The old Australia is ruined even though all the new immigrants coming to Australia have absolutely no respect for Australian history. It makes me sick and makes me feel like vomiting. Spot the white person in Australia now. There is more Indians and Muslims and Islam'ics and Chinese than white European caucasian Australians. Makes me want to spew.🤮🤮😭😭

[@EelisWalking]

Plenty of bogans still out there if you care to look

[@robthevampireslayer3211]

@@EelisWalking He means white people dumbass

[@666Havers]

Real Aussies mate who built this country

[@peterhall3746]

The VB adds by John Mellion are amongst the best adds ever made in Australia. They are actually arguably the best.

[@Patrick4959]

not wrong mate the legend himself made it so good looking for a nice stubby or a glass to enjoy responsibly etc.

[@jrnqproductions9939]

100% right

[@lapetitepapillon9101]

I love these ads but would genuinely argue that Paul Hogan's 'Anyhow, have a Winfield' ad campaign was far better.

[@roddyscott9498]

true. up there with the likes of hard yakka and the solo man ads.

[@doctorbohr1585]

​@@lapetitepapillon9101Ads you can't make anymore!

[@andrewpotts2773]

21°C in Melbourne today. Matter of fact, I've got it now.

[@lard_lad_AU]

This should be the Australian National Anthem

[@rankoutsider1977]

😂🇦🇺🤜🏽💥🤛🏽

[@savvasperisanidis]

100000 likes

[@savvasperisanidis]

Ps. It's 456am and I could have a couple of pints right now. World's greatest frothy mate. CHEEERS 🍻

[@asher4004]

Including the actors voice in the background ahaha

[@psikk3408]

YEAH NAH FUCKIN CHEERS CUNT!!!!

[@kimw200blaze4]

Great classic Aussie Ad. Voiced by a great Australian actor with a genuine Aussie accent.

[@JohnAikman-z4r]

The first Vic Bitter ad featuring the voice of the legendary John Meillon was actually released in 1968. I grew up watching them in black and white as a kid. And I still drink VB, along with some other brands. And he made a few slightly different one's in the same style right up until his death in 1989. 24 years later they still use the same music and style with a new voice while also running some of the old Meillon ads too. The ad was based on a 1965 advertisement for a Queensland beer called Bulimba Gold Top that Meillon had made. And Carlton United Brewery were starting a new ad campaign for VB so contacted John Meillon to basically reprise his role and virtually copied the original. He was perfect for it and you can almost feel the thirst for a beer in his voice and imagine that's the first thing he did when the ad finished. He was famous for his love of a beer. Too much so in fact and actually died of cirrhosis at only 55. But the rest is history as it became the most iconic, successful, and longest running beer campaign in Australia.

[@iankearns774]

Yes, I remember them when I was a little kid. My Dad was always a VB drinker and he gave me a sip when I sat on his knee in the early 70's. I can still hear my Mum saying Harry dont do that, hes too young! LMAO, I loved a beer until I found out I was Coeliac about 12 years ago.

[@BurningMad]

​@@iankearns774they have gluten free beers now, hope you can enjoy those if you want.

[@bentshuang9062]

2023, still Epic !!

[@deathtoming2201]

Gone are the old days

[@paulbell4062]

Ah back when I was 18 wish I could go back 😪

[@AndrewKymantas]

Something about this music brings you back to years of the good old days just like when you crack open a can It’s like angels pissing on your tonsils

[@ParshotamSingh-g3o]

The most iconic adds of this nation by the late John Mellion. These adds are still going strong for the past 60 years.

[@H00L3y]

My dad is in this ad, army reservists

[@gregbrassington2120]

Hi Ryan excellent . My Dad is in this ad too , the man pouring the metal that clip was from the Steel company of Australia in Derby street coburg . I worked there as well . My father has since passed . We both share these great memories.. Cheers Greg.

[@RPAS1234]

@@gregbrassington2120 Your late Dad has now been immortalised forever and remembered, not only by your loving family but by the entire planet as a deadset, hard-working Aussie legend and true-blue beer drinking hero bloke. Not all hero's need a monument in the town square Good onya mate

[@markhobson5769]

RIP John Meillon (1934-1989).

[@joebloggs9401]

just watched this ad and I have worked up a thirst

[@uraniumcranium2613]

bloody beautiful

[@ryanpzy9336]

Vintage Australian advertising

[@danno1974ify]

When men were men and women were women.

[@EelisWalking]

Nothing has really changed it's just the minority who don't feel they conform to gender stereotypes now feel free to be who they are based in what they feel. And in the interests of freedom for all, there's nothing wrong with that!

[@Davez621]

Although this ad aired in the 80s, Fosters was actually the preferred beer at this point in time. Fosters even sponsored the AFL well into the 90s.

[@colejon2753]

You could get it up a POLE

[@RPAS1234]

BLOODY OATH!!!! THIS is how beer ads should be made. I grew up with these ads as a young whipper-snapper and they made me the loud mouthed, beer gutted, much hated boss and husband I am today.

[@rankoutsider1977]

😂

[@PhireXZ]

When KZbin gives you an ad to watch an ad.

[@RHatcherMD]

You can get it walking. You can get it talking. You can get it working a plough. Matter of fact, I think i've got it right now: CORONAVIRUS!!!!!!!

[@OzLeedsCrew]

Wal from Crocodile Dundee, onya Wal! ..you can get it shootin', you can get it rootin'..matter of fact, i've got it now!

[@Bat-Ben]

You can get it drinkin VB...

[@will_274]

Matter of fact I’ve got it now

[@Ap-Man]

No over-priced, boutique beers back then. Just gallons of VIC. The only requirement, donning a Bond‘s singlet shortly before consumption

[@paulweston285]

The old wife beater

[@anaussie213]

Love the bonds singlets they rocked in these ads.

[@jamesthereaper7]

All rise for the Australian National Anthem.

[@gobblelevclass3nuclearsubm393]

ths is completly australian with no addatives ! very good !

[@danielduffield3132]

You can get it doing just about anything. But you can't get it in the US.

[@michaellrakes5521]

And that's a crying shame

[@mannfred1440]

@@michaellrakes5521 nopee yanks dont deserve vb

[@DJSLANKMAN]

@@mannfred1440 LULW yes we do

[@Patrick4959]

you can get it walking you can get it talkin you can get it working a plow matter of fact I've got it now ;)

[@gutz1981]

When was the last time you saw a full time Australian job finish at 4 pm anymore like this ad reminds us of?

[@zzzbbbooo]

It's just when the feeling for a VB started coming on...about 4.

[@Mirrorgirl492]

Work didn't finish til 5pm, but the desire for a VB started at 4pm.

[@antonenb]

Thanks James McCann

[@bloggaloggs]

Genius ad.

[@catecurl3790]

L💛ve it !

[@jimmeh213]

Blokes just dont look like that now.

[@EelisWalking]

Men care much more for their health and appearance nowadays. They also shower daily

[@bradleyferrier5118]

My ring tone

[@nguyetha7280]

came here after Vance Joy interview

[@s.e.wagger3888]

Australia's greatest actor...... EVER!!!! Trying to find the 3 part mini-series called the "Fourth Wish". John played the Dad of his dying son who wanted 3 wishes. Of course, John wanted the 4th wish to be his son would live. (An absolute tear-jerker of a show and one of John's greatest performances. If anyone knows where to watch it could you leave a link here, please?)

[@Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence]

Why is the world so fucked up now? Because we spent the 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's fucked up on booze.

[@CallMeMrX]

I always get it doing nothin' at all

[@robthevampireslayer3211]

Shame this Australia doesn't exist anymore.

[@timbainton1714]

Yeah the current versions kinda fkd.

[@EelisWalking]

There are plenty of bogans still out there if you care to look

[@gnx71]

At $20 a Pot, who can afford one? I hate the Traitor Grubberment.

[@peteranserin3708]

Why were they drinking out of shot glasses?

[@paulbrewer2513]

Did ray Barrett do theme for victorian bitter

[@zzzbbbooo]

John Meillon (1934-1989).

[@Tom-kt8lu]

So odd in hindsight.

[@noproblama9971]

It doesn’t taste like it used to taste they really messed it up many years back. Imo

[@pauliejay4161]

It's not the original bro - this campaign started in the black and white era.

[@MickG3]

True,,But John Meilion..was great back in the 80's.with the Vic Bitter Ads

[@gobblelevclass3nuclearsubm393]

i didnt know this ad went back so far its a great ad ! real australian

[@Benarnott-c2x]

I’m dead

[@roybennett6330]

I myself prefer coopers...every cloud has a silver lining!

[@throwgillardout]

Coopers is crows piss...a cloudy bladder lining drink

[@yareyare_dechi]

@@throwgillardout if Satan was real and not the evil boogieman in the minds of deranged people, he would piss coopers.

[@throwgillardout]

@@yareyare_dechi what kind of drugs are you on clown???

[@yareyare_dechi]

@@throwgillardout I see reading isn't your strong point. I'm taking the piss out of religion and saying coopers is bad. Its Satan's piss, but Satan isn't real, because religion is mythology

[@kimw200blaze4]

Sorry that Croweater beer of yours comes from inferior South Australian water. Lol VICTORIA will always be superior to SA in everything including beer and better Footy teams. Lol

[@drcmac]

Wally

[@sophiaedwards885]

you could get it ridin

[@dinjoginjo6449]

YOU COULD GET IT SLIDIN’

[@colejon2753]

You can feel it comeing on at 4

[@timbainton1714]

Although it'd be an IPA nowadays for the track riders.

[@pilot3605]

LONGNECK

[@AWayOfLiving84]

🌏📽️🌌🕵🏻‍♂️☯️

[@oakbellUK]

If it's a 'big cold beer', why is it in a small glass. Get a British pint, boys.

[@cbscbs9090]

Real men drink it straight out of the 750ml 'King Brown' , ya geezer.

[@jasonh.8754]

It's normally hot, so by the time you get down to the dregs it's warm (Aussie beer is served cold) and tastes terrible. Aussie beer culture was not so much about enjoying the beer, often just drinking as much as possible, and beer like VB is so awful it has to be cold in order to stomach it.

[@jasonh.8754]

Quite possibly the worst tasting beer in Australia.

[@666dr]

Sit in your arm chair and sip tea mate

[@EelisWalking]

No that dishonor goes to Foster's

[@alexxthekidd7351]

:)