Vintage UK Beer & Booze Adverts (Vol.1)

[@garrywitcomb2334]

Better days, remember these adds,brilliant !!! 😆😆😆👍👍👍 simpler times for me,and many others no dought . . . Love it

[@thomasmorin749]

The days when adverts were more entertaining than the programmes.

[@brendanbarron5631]

Your right there on that one.

[@flipper2392]

The ads were better than the beer.

[@Scooot1972]

@@flipper2392 flipper you're bang on. Skoll was awful and inigma was just a beer where the name came first and the flavour came as an after thought. Still I'd like to get hold of a hofmeister if I could.

[@Mudge07]

Great selection of aspirational and humorous booze adverts. And a fair smattering of home-grown comedy actors throughout: Susie Blake, Steven Frost & Mark Arden, Daniel Peacock, Stephen Fry and Hywel Bennett as well as Aussie, Paul Hogan. Seems like a route to success for many. Of course it also meant those who weren’t of legal drinking age were captivated too and acquiring a thirst for a cool pint well before a publican would welcome them to the numerous pubs and bars we used to have. Running a bar, these campaigns and merchandising were part of well-oiled, promotions machine over and above the humble beer mat, beer towels and tray mats (remember them?).

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yes .. I don't think we really see alcohol ads on TV now, do we? Not as much, at least.

[@MrsSlocombesPuddyCat]

🙂 I remember many of these when I was a child. My favourite alcohol adverts were the Babycham ones 🦌🍸 only because I was allowed to have a glass at Christmas.

[@mauriceosullivan6832]

lol I used too drink some of my grandmother's q c sherry, every Saturday when we went too visit

[@mrflea7288]

Love these old ads 😊👍

[@El-Ritmo]

My parents occasionally had Skol in the house and that, combined with the very distinctive and memorable Hagar the Horrible adverts, made me desperate to try it. So, as an adolescent, I sneaked one from the fridge. Didn't drink beer again for another 15 years... 😆🤣 Still, I benefited from a salutory lesson in the effects of advertising and the often inverse correlation between quality of advert and quality of product being advertised. (See also the many wonderful ads, often by Leith Agency, for the execrable Tennent's).

[@RetroSteveUK]

My first taste of beer was at about age 10. My dad let me have a little in the bottom of a glass to taste it. Like yourself I couldn't understand the appeal. I thought it was disgusting.

[@fredbloggs7131]

You need the Dambusters Carling Black Label advert. Also the Boddingtons ice cream van advert.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I'll see what I can do for future volumes. Thanks for the tip.

[@Psykelektric]

Probably on another volume but the Courage Best Chas & Dave ads were the best. Won so many awards.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Definitely. It's like the bonus tracks of Chas & Dave songs.

[@davidjones6470]

Can't beat a damn good 🍺Advert can you!!! Nice one sir 👍

[@garyrothwell1914]

Not even featuring one egg n spoon. Those were the days.

[@bodienutt1]

The days when you look forward to a commercial break I used to ask my dad when are the adverts coming on. Used to love the CBL adverts I noticed Danny peacock in the CBL with the Police briefing

[@jonathangriffin1120]

My favourite is the Foster's ad where Paul Hogan is in an art gallery looking at some piece of abstract art, some 'arty' type stands next to him and says " Jackson Pollock's", to which PH replies "You're right there mate".......

[@ignoblesurfer6281]

I've never had a Bacardi Breezer in my life and I remember that Romeo/Juliet ad like it was yesterday

[@theymusthatetesla3186]

Went into a pub last week, and the bar had a load of arrows sticking in it. I asked the Barman "Got any Cider?"

[@pressedsteel7463]

you break my heart with this........ really miss them days :o(

[@BenG1874]

Skol was ridiculous! I think it was 2.9%. No one ever got drunk Skol!

[@alanthomson1227]

No one got drunk because it was awful .

[@oystermouth1971]

Hofmeister cans were pretty much the same. Remember drinking my way through a whole 24 pack & as you say couldn’t get drunk. Got very bloated though!

[@maskedavenger2578]

@@oystermouth1971 When I started drinking there was no draught lager sold in local ale houses . When the bottled stuff came in .all the men in the bar tried it & all agreed it was ok for women but not a man’s drink . Then they carried on drinking bitter ,mild or Guinness . later on all the brewery’s brewed their own draught version of larger & gave it German sounding names like Carling or Grunhalle ,but it tasted like p#$$ . The trouble with larger once it gets past 5 % it tasted like treacle mixed with lemonade & fermented spud juice .

[@ignoblesurfer6281]

It wasn't always 2.8%. I believe in its heyday - but I can't confirm - that it was around 3.8%. Later, around the time I first drank it, it was 3%. It's now 2.8% - beers in the UK with this percentage enjoy a significant tax benefit. It lingers on as a ghost brand but will, unless rejuvenated, disappear when the few lager drinkers left from the 60s and 70s die out. That's for the UK, at least. Skol remains a hugely popular brand in Brazil, where it's grown up to a 4.6% pale lager. This one's brewed by the Carlsberg group. It's practically Brazil alone that keeps it firmly within the global top ten lager brands. Along with Brahma, it's a beloved local beer to them. It's also kicking about in a few African countries where it ranges in popularity but is generally a 5.1% and a bit maltier. It's not Carlsberg there but rather a Belgian brewery. It's surprisingly good and enjoys great popularity in the DRC, Rwanda, and a few other places. The Brazilian one, like almost all pale lager sold in the country, is designed to be poured almost frozen into small glasses and drunk right away. The African one can be sipped more and in a complete reversal to the brand's early cheap-and-cheerful days is actually a really good slow-drinking lager.

[@MarkHarrison-r4d]

I’ve not been able to find that Stones Bitter advert anywhere, thank you!

[@RetroSteveUK]

Nice! Thanks for watching.

[@zfid]

'By 'eck, you smell gorgeous tonight petal'

[@davidfrost2819]

Gordon Rollings who was Arkwright in the John Smith,s ads was also in Superman 2 & 3

[@FishpondsLady]

That John Smith "Stop the Cavalry" song is excellent. Very well done. Plus I loved Attila the Hun! (have you ever had Harvey's Bristol Cream? It's foul!)

[@RetroSteveUK]

My wife likes that (Harveys). She's a sherry fan.

[@leeshepherd6512]

The lager was bloody awful though. Like the rest of John Smiths range.

[@MrsSlocombesPuddyCat]

🙂 Absolutely love Harvey's Bristol Cream. Buy a bottle every Christmas. Which is no mean feat, as hardly anywhere sells it in Australia. I remember all my old aunties sipping it at family dos in the early 70s. Reminds me of a white Christmas.

[@brianknowles1727]

We need these adds back to encourage people to communicate and bring back the pub and working men's clubs.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Is it just me, or is a trip to the pub now a lot more lairy than it was back then? I remember the club my family were members of in our town. Everything felt safe, friendly & comfortable. Now in pubs I'm constantly watching my back in case I get stabbed.

[@Sheffield_Steve]

Yep, and to think the Government stopped the Hofmeister Bear ads because they were convinced they were constituting to lad/yob culture?!

[@cambs0181]

Carling Black Label. Now just called Carling, saves more time in the pub ordering it.

[@kurtsoderberg]

Skol skol skol.....😎 rememberd that one...

[@michailokeefeMooMoo]

Just love theses videos

[@lillymay3632]

How about the Cinzano Martini ( or is it Cinzano Bianco? ) adverts with Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Good tip. I'll add those to the wanted list.

[@djrichylaurence8991]

The John Smith's ad was a funny one.

[@AndrewHalliwell]

Good to see the Hagar ads again. Not the best examples of Heineken and Carling, but at least it had the original jingle. Forgot Suzie Blake's As Seen On Tv continuity announcer introduced one.

[@Sheffield_Steve]

The TV announcer skits from Victoria Wood were great, the best one being "Apologies to viewers in the North, it must be dreadful for them." 🤣

[@markgriffiths409]

Need to get ‘Taboo’ and ‘Mirage’ adverts 😁👍

[@RetroSteveUK]

🍹😎

[@nickmail7604]

Missed the best one, got me LA shirt and me disco trousers all topped off with an Elvis quiff........

[@garyrothwell1914]

My favorite Black Lable was "phew, gis a pint of after shave"

[@FishpondsLady]

Another silly story from me. As you may have guessed, I grew up in Birmingham. Made me who I am. Anyway, my family and I went to the Black Country Museum for a day out (I'd recommend it to anyone, it's fascinating), and we took a barge trip (my grandfather was a bargee, so it was cool). We had a horse, but there was a tunnel where the horse couldn't go. The guide explained that in tunnels, men had to "leg it" which meant lying on the barge and pushing it through the tunnel by means of pushing their legs on the sides. The guide said "is anyone up for it?" and my Dad said "I'll have a go". It was difficult, because barges have a lot of inertia to overcome, but we made it, and as we emerged out of the tunnel another passenger said "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label".

[@Richard19551]

That passenger was quite funny!

[@johnbanks4761]

innovative, entertaining ..great adverts..thanks for posting these take me back..great stuff....haha skolskolskolskolskol

[@CastrolHondaSP2]

Take me back. 2000 onwards has been an absolute shitshow. 🙄💩

[@ManCalledMegz]

Fosters Ice was so good.

[@jackbrown6788]

That Baracrdi Breezer Advert sounded like Kevin Spacey.

[@garethjenkins5922]

Really enjoyed these adverts, it takes me back, I wasn't legal age to drink in the 80's early 90's but was in 94. I remember a lot of these. Looking back, these beers were mostly shit, let's be honest.

[@garethbramley1]

No 'Gordons Gin' - a classic. Brian Pringle in the Carling ad - I spotted him in another collection too. Wonder if that's Jona Lewie actually singing on the John Smiths ad? I've always found these lager commercials atrocious - like the drink itself. Great to see the Martini balloon ad - there were loads of these commercials in the 70s / 80s and they cost a fortune - this is the full-length version.

[@childofnature4402]

Those John Smith's ads are funnier than any so called "comedy" on TV nowadays.

[@G-MAN_]

Johny Vegas on the stella add lol

[@RetroSteveUK]

You're not the first to spot that. It's not him, but it really does look like him.

[@mollyfilms]

More inventive and rememberable than todays load of rubbish. The Martini jingle (song) was made in a bedroom in Bristol believe it or not.

[@TheWacoKid1963]

That John Smith's woman ironing, is it Jane Freeman, Last of the summer wine actress (cafe owner)?

[@RetroSteveUK]

I believe so. She's in another Arkwright advert with the fishing hat (on the latest volume of Beer & Booze - check the playlist.) It's a clearer shot of her face in that advert.

[@Sheffield_Steve]

Yep.

[@iankenrick]

the john smiths advert is that ivy from last of the summer wine

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yeah, I think so. Kinda typecast as a northern housewife there.

[@user-gk9pu6oq7j]

there was a larger advert where a meteorite falls from the sky i cant find it anywhere on net

[@RetroSteveUK]

I have no memory at all of that one. I'll try a search myself & see what what turns up.

[@Jonsson474]

The best beer commercial at the time was the Ansells bittermen.

[@maskedavenger2578]

It was Tetley bitter men up north . Both owned by same company Tetley Walker .

[@Jonsson474]

@@maskedavenger2578Ansells brewery in Aston was actually merged with Taylor and Walker to form Allied breweries in the 60’s. Ansells was produced in Birmingham until 1981 when Allied moved the production to Burton on Trent since the water in Birmingham was no longer usable. Since 90s it’s part of Carlsberg.

[@maskedavenger2578]

@@Jonsson474 It was Tetley or Walkers brewery pubs in Merseyside area circa 1960 - 1980 & Ansells brewery pubs when I lived in Chester & Cheshire areas .Never heard of Taylor’s. as an ale firm only as a Port wine merchant . I heard that Ansells was the name also what they called Tetley Walkers ale in the midlands . The Tetley bitter tasted better out the old hand pumps used in the traditional ale houses ,the keg stuff was full of gas like that crap lager stuff they call ale now .

[@SimonMartin-m9q]

Brill thx takes me back to being 15

[@runswithcows]

So that's why I developed unhealthy alcohol consumption levels as a teenager. It all makes sense now.

[@RetroSteveUK]

That's probably why they banned alcohol ads. 🤣

[@whatsaguygottado2669]

The TV "made you do it"..... doubtful

[@runswithcows]

@@whatsaguygottado2669 Any ideas why they banned these ads?

[@robstevenson675]

I wish I could find a Guinness ad from about 10-15 years ago. It showed two women talking (but we can’t hear them) in a bar. One tells the other something about her date while above them we see “Date a player”. Then the second one tells her friend about HER date, illustrating with her hands wide and squeezing something. Above them we see “Date a rugby player” . It seems just the sort of thing I could find on KZbin but no, nuttin’. Anyone know where I could see it again? It’s a good one!

[@RetroSteveUK]

I don't think I've ever seen that. If it turns up, I'll make a point of including it in a future compilation.

[@robstevenson675]

@@RetroSteveUK Thanks for keeping an eye out for it. It was likely a short run ad, maybe for something like the World Cup, and then it was retired. A few years ago I emailed Guiness and asked if they knew where it could be seen online but didn’t get a reply. Maybe it was controversial.

[@ds9268]

is that johnny Vagas in the Stella ad?

[@RetroSteveUK]

With the broken cart wheel? Looks like a thinner version of him, doesn't it? 😆

[@jonathanwilkinson1461]

Bloke in the Heineken ad looks like one of old Pugwash's lads

[@Caskchap]

Shite beers but great ads from a time less judgemental and when we still had a sense of humour.

[@stephenlang3135]

Many of the drinks are no longer available

[@chazzlebazzle69]

Hypocritical that alcohol advertising is forbidden though sales are available 24/7

[@anthonyhindley2095]

🍾🍸🍺🍻🥂🥃🍹

[@RetroSteveUK]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hH2ZaohsZdKqqM0

[@Sheffield_Steve]

Arrrr.... remember when Stella Artois was considered classy and not the Chav juice it is now?! 🤣

[@RetroSteveUK]

I reckon Kronenbourg might be the new Stella.

[@Sheffield_Steve]

@@RetroSteveUK Kronenbourg known as "Loopy Juice" where I am. 🤣👍

[@the_even_toed_ungulate.]

Go and have a pint of Magnet

[@MsVanorak]

at least there used to be a bit of variety and entertainment in the ads. i hadn't noticed but are booze ads no longer allowed? same as booze no longer seems to sponsor anything.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I'm not sure. I'm sure I've seen adverts for wine lately. I'll have to keep my eyes open for that.

[@MsVanorak]

@@RetroSteveUK christmas isn't christmas without the babycham deer!

[@Scooot1972]

Shit I'm old. I remember all of them. Adverts now are just gambling and charities. No humour just pulling your heart strings or your wallet. At least there's peace in our time and the cold War is over🤔🤔🤔

[@RetroSteveUK]

The cold war just got a whole lot hotter. 😔

[@jonathangriffin1120]

And bloody funeral plans!

[@whatsaguygottado2669]

Is THIS what drove the highest alcoholism rate? Britain is THE leader in liver disease..... :-(

[@RetroSteveUK]

United Kingdom is 142nd on the world leaderboard for death by alcohol-related liver disease according to worldlifeexpectancy.com. Adverts probably and inevitably played a role in promoting the consumption of alcohol, but there are likely to be many other contributory factors as well. I remember the lad culture of the 90s, where if you weren't going out on a Saturday night and drinking twelve pints of beer, you were considered a wuss. I was never comfortable with that culture and I'm glad it's mostly died out (no pun intended).

[@malcolmmarshall4371]

Alway one spoil sport

[@misterprecocious2491]

@@RetroSteveUK OY, you calling us lightweights😂

[@RetroSteveUK]

@@misterprecocious2491 🤣

[@MJforlife-777]

Stella artios music sounds depressing not good !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@RetroSteveUK]

That's a good point. Seemed to sell a lot if beer at the time though, judging by how many variations of the same ad campaign they put out.

[@thetreacherousharkonnenhar1853]

@@RetroSteveUK It's the theme music from Jean de Florette, a truly great 80's film starring Gerard Derpardieu and Yves Montand. The film itself is depressing (no synopsis provided here - just watch/ research it). The actor in the ad has a passing resemblance to GD back in the day. French beer = French cultural references. ps am not French, but do love film.