Vintage UK Beer & Booze Adverts (Vol.2)

[@TheScaryTruthCatalyst]

These adverts are more entertaining than most contemporary TV programmes.

[@kimvibk9242]

So true...!

[@johnfrancis2215]

Absolutely, it's all pants now on the telly

[@effyleven]

The Water in Majorca is a charming advert. A real classic,

[@badninja1971]

The fact we remember these ads & slogans proves advertising gets in your head. Sublime really. 😂

[@Comeonlillyloo]

I remember most of these ads I was a teenager in the 1980’s thank you so much for bring back this simpler time in my life.💖🐩🐩💖🐾🐾🎅🎄❄️🕊🌈

[@francispalmer9737]

Same here, I wish I had a time machine I really do.

[@paultinwell5557]

So simplify… and get back to being happy! Life’s too short otherwise.

[@johnfrancis2215]

I was in my 30s, great days and not a doom goblin or a climate change catastrophe in sight

[@bensmith1689]

That first ad is one of my all time favs. "Looks like we've overdone it with the sherry!"..."yup" 😂

[@annejackson6528]

Mine too

[@michaelhawthorne8696]

Castlemaine XXXX adverts were great and the Fosters too.....remember the Dunny Spider one?

[@bensmith1689]

@@michaelhawthorne8696 Oh yes. And Carling with the Dambusters one with the towels on sunbeds...

[@dunruden9720]

Of course, the beer is referred to as, "Fourex,' in Australia. Fosters is a word that will get you sent to the naughty corner!

[@insertnamehere5809]

Australian for beer! 🍻

[@robertbruce7686]

"The warta in Madgejorka " always was a classic ad. Next to the "Dam Busters" ad of course.

[@joannewootton8328]

I remember all these adverts in the 80s as a kid & some of these Alcoholic drinks don't exist anymore thank you for bringing back the memories for me 👍

[@Nooziterp1]

'The watah in majorcah don't taste like what it oughtah.' The way she follows this with 'gosh!' cracked me up at the time and still does.

[@cupofqwarffee4802]

Possibly my all time favourite ad. I still go around saying "Ya, absolutely Ron" Classic!

[@smeggerknee2448]

Saw this actress in LOVEJOY tv series (same era)

[@Nooziterp1]

On the subject of Heineken ads, who remembers the one with the aborigine throwing boomerangs that came back only when he had drunk some Heineken? It was in instalments between other ads, and I remember watching in on the TV in a pub. Everyone was saying 'what the f... is that about' till the final instalment when he drank some Heineken and all his boomerangs came back.

[@jamess6961]

Old ads are better than the bilge they call tv programs these days.

[@keithnaylor1981]

Brilliant - showing them on an old style TV set is a touch of genius!!!

[@RetroSteveUK]

Some people really hate that. Mostly it's been liked, though. 👍

[@johnfrancis2215]

@@RetroSteveUK well I think it's bloody brilliant

[@markosullivan6444]

Some fantastic adverts, there. For some truly awful 'beers'. Skol, Carling Black Label, Kestrel, Fosters, Heineken...

[@deathbysnusnu515]

Piss all of it lol. Forgot kestrel even existed lol

[@paulnash4425]

It's funny, as soon as I saw the title I had the same thought. I drunk these as a teenager and thinking back, they were all as terrible as each other, so you bought them because of the advert and not the taste!

[@deathbysnusnu515]

@@paulnash4425 That's why we had to upgrade it to a snakebite. Better times...

[@williamwilliam5066]

@@paulnash4425 No, we didn't buy them. Idiots bought them.

[@jamesbussey2911]

With you on that one, mate. I had to join the army and get posted to BAOR in West Germany to be able to drink good lager. 🤓 Prost!

[@garrywitcomb2334]

Haha ! Brilliant ! Thanks for posting. Simpler times for me,better days,sadly passed. Love it 😆😆👍👍👍👍

[@barriehobbs4533]

In 2005 I went to live in Mallorca (still there) to teach English. Even though that was years after the ad came out everyone I knew spent the 6 months before I left reminding me that the water there didn't taste "quite like it should". There hasn't been a week since when I haven't looked at some student or other and thought "the water....." But it still isn't as good as the "overdone it on the sherry" one. For me the best ad ever.

[@paulcaton7093]

Wow - young Hugh Laurie in that Kestrel lager ad!

[@thefrecklepuny]

Great ads and memories. Just this minute, subscribed,

[@npr1300A8]

Absolutely fabulous! Those were much better days than today. Thank you for sharing these. I love the wood TV surround too. It makes my soulless TV look fantastic.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Awesome, thanks for watching. 😁👍

[@simonwillis1529]

I remember these good lord 😆 We need these back

[@jackreacher5667]

Great adverts, cleaver, imaginative, funny and entertaining, not much I miss about things in the past but the adverts where💯% better then todays.

[@johnrider3749]

Adverts with a sense of humour I really miss those days,

[@JD-wn3cc]

Another great selection of videos! I'm such a sucker for nostalgia. Would love to go back in time and see what some of those beers tasted like

[@twitchygiraffe4636]

Trust me the ads are better! 3.5% shite this stuff was, and they make it look so hard and macho in the adverts don’t they?! Great advertising though! But the PC lot now wouldn’t except it now too sexist for them!!!!

[@wildphil64]

Piss 😂

[@MsPixi66]

Brilliant lol Jonathan Woss looked so young.

[@davidjones6470]

Love this channel completely brilliant love the retro TV in background 🤘

[@RetroSteveUK]

😁👍

[@thomasmorin749]

The adverts were better than the programmes back then.

[@deezmemes126]

Aaah! Nostalgia overload....and loving every minute!

[@johncartwright8154]

These ads were great....unlike most of the beers they promote!

[@derekporter7658]

Richard Marner (Colonel Von Strom) in the Cockburns advert! Tom Baker narrating the Skol advert. The Heineken ad with "the water in Majorca" is well remembered! The kestrel ad with Russ Abbott was hilarious. The best booze advert by far was Harp the "Lionel Blaircut" one! 2nd best was the McEwans lager ad with the dystopian ball clock. (Check out Rikki Fulton Scotch and Wry mickey take on it!)

[@edgarbeat275]

The funny thing is Richard Marner really could speak fluently Russian one of four languages he could speak.

[@derekporter7658]

@@edgarbeat275 I think Richard Marner was infact Russian by heritage, I think 🤔! So that would be fitting that he could speak the language. I'm fairly sure he also appeared for a brief moment in the film "The odessa files" I just remember his character riding a bike in a film.

[@jhareng]

Only seen 5, first 4 in that. Best ad of all time Heinekins Worter in Majjorka

[@fredneecher1746]

The wart'er in Majorc'a dun tase like wot' it' ort'a.

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

Great! Thankyou. The Australian ads are actually *very* realistic. We Aussies have a very dry humour.

[@johndonson1603]

It must have been sorely tested over the last year or so..

[@monkeyspanner8172]

A cliff Richard joke in a beer commercial? That's one of the most British things I've ever seen.

[@jimbo6059]

There was a cliff joke in the Listerine ad as well.

[@garethbramley1]

A few familiar faces here and a voice-over by Tom Baker too. Wossy looks so young! Martini theme by the great Christopher Gunning - love this 80s panpipes version.

[@losttribe3001]

The Holsten ad at 2:32 made me laugh harder than I should have… Hello from Utah.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Hello from Buckinghamshire! 👋

[@proudtobegrumpy4969]

Good reminder of life as a teen in the 80's.

[@RIXRADvidz]

Mateus : Bianco and Vin Rose' OH, the Hippy Chicks just loved it, and then would turn the bottles into vases. the Guys were more into Boone's Farm and Annie Greensprings. The Early 70's were a great time to grow up and learn about Life.

[@juliejeanable]

So many great ones missing. I was hoping to see the one with the ladybirds in the John smiths advert. Je t'aime lol.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Can't have everything I guess. I'll see what turns up and maybe they'll appear in future volumes.

[@kirkmarrie8060]

REALLY COOL!!!! thank you. JUST SUBSCRIBED!!!!

[@DJ-Daz]

OMG that's a journey back in time, then the Martini pan-pipes at the very end.

[@thephantom2man]

That heineken one had me absolutely dying. THA WA'ER IN MAYORKA DONT TAS LIKE WOT IT OWTA

[@pudsrus2]

I even miss adverts from the 80’s😪

[@johncorrall1739]

I’d go back in a minute.

[@johnfrancis2215]

Me too, everything's doom and gloom nowadays, only watch docs on Utube and I have a load of DVD sets of the old sit coms, The good life and open all hours are a couple of my favourites

[@TheEulerID]

That's the flamboyantly named Sylvestra Le Touzel in the Heineken ad parodying a scene from My Fair Lady. Still acting I believe.

[@Rapscallion2009]

Yes - she was in The Thick Of It around a decade ago.

[@johnbanks4761]

hahah aim loving these, i remember every one of them as im watching them..aahh good memories..thanks for posting

[@harryputang5352]

Great beers to watch while drinking beers 👍🍻

[@richardtaylor3798]

Brilliant-i remember all these,great job fella-got my sub.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Ta very much! Merry Christmas! 🎄😁👍

[@Saxondog]

Does anyone remember the Heineken advert with the two football teams? The winning side are as miserable as sin. "Poor Hans, he scored zee vining goal". Somebody has to vin" My all time favourite beer advert.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Rings a bell.

[@FishpondsLady]

I wanted to post this on the Yellow Pages link, with the coastguard message, but this will do. My brother in law is a volunteer for SARA - Severn and Avon Rescue Association. He's done it for the past twenty years. Anyway, my parents, my sister, my brother in law and I were enjoying a yummy meal at Brown's, Bristol, about 15 years ago, when my brother in law got an emergency call. There was a stranded porpoise in the River Severn. Anyway, he got up and left his lovely lunch, and the porpoise was all right in the end. But what a cool bloke!

[@andrewh5457]

Now a days we have gambling shoved down our throats every advert.

[@bganonimouse2754]

Thing that fascinates me about these adverts is when it was that I saw each one for the last time. I mean there was a period where some of them were on for many months on end and it seemed to go on forever. Its just an odd feeling thinking about the transience of life and how it passes...

[@ange1098]

Deep thinking 🤔 love it

[@jamesbussey2911]

I'm glad I was a young person when I was - in the 1970s and '80s. We're getting the benefit of all the 1960s Sci-Fi concepts coming true, from a period when we were optimistic about solving the problems of the world through technology. Now there are twice the amount of people on the planet, over-population is causing a lot of stresses and strains we haven't seen before. Plus, British people were known for their sense of humour in the old days: I think we started losing that when 21st century 'comedians' stopped telling jokes and just started moaning about life instead...or when telling a joke became offensive to other people. 🤔🛸🚀

[@bganonimouse2754]

@@jamesbussey2911 Mostly agree but not about the comedy - still a lot of great comedy about and if I compare it to the likes of Benny Hill and Dick Emery or even Kenny Everett. To give you your due ,you can raise me an Only Fools and Horses which came a bit later. Overall I'd say the decline in British (or global?) comedy is true but I don't think its anything to do with telling offensive jokes. Its dumbing down for family viewing and the relentless barrage of so called reality TV that is in the ascendancy. People are obsessed with celebrities now and have less time for comedy or comedians.

[@jamesbussey2911]

@@bganonimouse2754 I'm more of a Two Ronnies man, myself, when it comes to family viewing. The early Only Fools & Horses were spot on, tho' 😁.

[@johnfrancis2215]

@@jamesbussey2911 the comediens in the 70s was great, especially the incomparable Bernard Manning

[@BeyondF1]

I can remember most of these :)

[@warrenbellingham7178]

You can not beat a drop of the brown brew ae Patrick 🍺🍺🍺

[@dunruden9720]

eh

[@lablackzed]

A blast from. The past STONES BEER GOOD KIT.🍻👍

[@MrThecarebear]

"Don't think much of this wine"......."yeah, and this cheese stinks as well..."

[@harri2626]

Great ads, crap beer. It can't be a coincidence that, about the time of these adverts, CAMRA started to make great strides in improving the quality of real beer and lager, not these chemical concoctions.

[@Prod-23]

Like, most of those brands are now dead and gone.

[@MURDOCK1500]

You're right. They were rubbish. Where I live it was all Bass Charrington's with electric pumps. We'd travel miles to get some hand-pulled Tetley's. That chemical shite didn't half make you ill

[@duganc2581]

And to think, beer adverts are where Hugh Laurie got his start. Dr. House please…

[@sb6678]

The water in maJorca is the best one

[@simonbiggs9102]

When life un like today was stressfree

[@TheA8lee]

This was greeeeeeat!

[@marcevans6545]

It would be great if someone could find the Courage Best adverts from the eighties. There was one where they were in a pub playing pool and one of the lines in the song was 'Wallop' 'it Goes Doooooowwnnn'. I've tried looking for it on KZbin, but couldn't find it.

[@11carbuff19572011]

Jonathan Ross in the Harp Lager advert. Rylan's done the same now for Cinch car adverts 30-odd years later.

[@stevedickson5853]

Great memories, must have got pissed on half of this lot in the late 80s early 90s as a young'n

[@kerry1754]

Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Ross, Tommy Ball, The Bloke from Eastenders, comedian, and more

[@bennyhill4228]

Uploader thank you made me smile on a shitty day ty m8 Cheers

[@daniellevy4104]

i like that the T.V says station 88MPH =p Back to the Future !

[@friktionrc]

Man I miss those days

[@renopereira1434]

🤣😂 i remember most of these commercials 😅😄😃😆

[@Tokinjester]

3:03 good grief, Hugh Laurie! that takes me back :p

[@cambs0181]

The days when you could just go down the pub and have a laugh. Not now where you have to sit outside to get away from the diners and the screaming kids running around.

[@jameswalsh9263]

Anyone remember the ad... Group of lads taking the piss out of each other, in the end the mocking saves one of the lads from dropping his pint!

[@RetroSteveUK]

No bells ringing here I'm afraid.

[@davidjones6470]

Carling black label!!!😂

[@pietjepuk9575]

The age when the adverts were entertaining to look at , not like nowadays 🤮🤮👎👎

[@eileenlocke7877]

Luv it

[@BenG1874]

Can’t do ads like this now. People will get offended Also, I can see the pub from ere

[@RetroSteveUK]

Crocodiles ate all the sharks! 😁

[@cjeff3549]

I had that exact same Retrovision TV set. But I think mine was broken. When I tuned it to 88mph, it only showed 1955 Jackie Gleason reruns.

[@RetroSteveUK]

The trick is to hook it up to an appropriate 1.21 gigawatt power supply.

[@Caskchap]

Brian Pringle brilliant actor was in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

[@davidjones6470]

Them old beer cans,

[@kevinstoneham1245]

I am sitting here drinking booze watching these and it is making me want more booze. I am going to have some more booze.

[@johnfrancis2215]

Cheers mate 👍

[@denishoulan1491]

Adverts are so different today. Know what I mean.

[@nolslifegren]

Have you got the lottery winner one ( Heineken ? ) And the one where a couple are showing their friends their new house and the bloke has a whole room devoted to beer ( Carlsberg ? )

[@RetroSteveUK]

Not currently. They may turn up at some point though.

[@martinmargerrison2300]

Hence the expression "Drinking the advertising". 😃

[@ThereIsOnlyTheOnePJC]

I totally forgot about Hugh Laurie and Kestrel.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Same here, to be honest.

[@ThereIsOnlyTheOnePJC]

@@RetroSteveUK He did a fine job on the accent.

[@djelalniyazi4090]

there was doctor House in there.😁

[@nickthomas181]

Matius Rose ...the last word in wine ...no really it was shite. The very short fella in the ad is supposed to be painter Henri De Toulouse Lautrec it reminded me of my dad dressing up as him to go down my Aunties pub on fancy dress night back in 82. Shame no one recognised him spent weeks making the costume.......peasants!

[@nicholasmcculloch727]

Looking for an old McEwans Export advert with a Gogo dancer & an actor watching her via a mirror above the bar - any info much appreciated

[@RetroSteveUK]

I haven't come across that yet, but it'll inevitably end up on a compilation if/when it does appear. 👍

[@anotherblonde]

I wonder if any of those pubs are still there?

[@RetroSteveUK]

Are there ANY pubs left?

[@brendanbarron5631]

I was waiting for Hagar the horrible skol one and follow the bear. Hofmister.

[@RetroSteveUK]

You want Volume 1 for those: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqDChpanfc91p6c

[@brendanbarron5631]

Thanks retrosteve. On it.

[@freefallin3693]

Oh the days when you could afford to go to the pub!

[@MrIrrepressible]

Guiness supporters club....what a classic

[@silknfeathers]

A little sad we sold Fosters to the Poms as beer...

[@bennyhill4228]

Australians meet John Smith While drinking carling black label four x

[@CycolacFan]

When I was a child I thought the water in Majorca ad was a warning implying that Heineken destroyed brain cells…

[@RetroSteveUK]

You may have stumbled upon a hidden truth! 🤣

[@waynekent7068]

And most of these are no longer available because they are so terrible. Kestrel lager was cheap tat when I was a kid in the late 80's

[@Sjmby95]

Whatneys starlight and Red Barrel and Double Diamond ♦️

[@trevordance5181]

I used to love the old Chas and Dave ads for Courage beer. Was that the 70's or the 80's though?

[@RetroSteveUK]

I looked this up & it seems they were being put out in both late 70s and early 80s.

[@dnf-dead]

Still trying to find the advert that's a spoof of the Italian job

[@RetroSteveUK]

With all the minis. I remember that one.

[@RetroSteveUK]

This might be it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZ25i5p7a8qLgM0

[@dnf-dead]

@@RetroSteveUK sadly no..I think it was for carling black label..but thanks for trying

[@JakeCole1453]

Does anyone remember a beer ad from about 1995 with a blonde girl who caught her dress on a nail and the dress began to unravel from around her? I believe it was banned soon after.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I don't remember that one. If it turns up I'll probably stick it in a compilation. I love a good banned advert!

[@kevingreen1100]

SO many awesome beers that are now RIP....I'd kill for a pint of Stones, a Whitbread Best or a Toby. Why cant you get a decent bitter anymore?, what happened?

[@RetroSteveUK]

It might be a modern tendency for corporations to muscle out smaller companies in pubs. I've noticed a lot of bars tend to have a limited collection of big name drinks on draught. Of course, I could just be paranoid.

[@andrewhaddon7689]

What was Long Life beer, lager or pale ale?Don't remember that one.

[@Bustergonad9649]

1:06 Allegra Strattons first break.

[@radleytube]

I don't think the Welsh would be at a English British ceremony of pomp

[@juanitahardy8583]

Missed the Tenants penguins

[@RetroSteveUK]

Never mind. Perhaps it'll turn up in another compilation.

[@desmcharris]

No self respecting Digger would ever stoop to Fosters !

[@davidhull1481]

So many crappy lagers (and a few ales). No wonder they had to make the ads amusing.