Beer ad

[PeterB]

There’s an ad on Australian TV at the moment for one of the local beers – Carlton.

To the tune of (I think) the theme from the movie The Great Escape, people are using giant trebuchets (catapults) to hurl bags of hops, young women, and finally a deer into distant clouds. Finally, the clouds burst, beer rains from the sky, and people celebrate.

The funny thing is, that despite the beer being Australian, I can’t help feeling the ad wasn’t made here. There’s something I can’t put my finger on which says the ad is American.

Have any North Americans out there seen a similar ad?

Cheers

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

peterb said:

... bags of hops, young women, and finally a deer...

That is not how you make beer.
I thought.

[lenbrazil]

halcyondayz said:

peterb said:

... bags of hops, young women, and finally a deer...

That is not how you make beer.
I thought.

Maybe in Australia that's how it's done!?!

[Martina W.]

lenbrazil said:

Maybe in Australia that's how it's done!?!

Who knows?
I've heard of beer where they do the mash only when the moon is full.

People from Cologne assert that you need a horse to make the variety of beer that is brewed on the other side of the Rhine (in Duesseldorf).
I tried it and I think it's the only beer whose name describes its flavor exhaustively. It's called Altbier. If you cannot translate it yourself, babelfish gets it right this time.

On the other hand people from Duesseldorf insist that the name of the Cologne beer (Koelsch) is an acronym of the sentence the first Cologne brewer said when he tried his own stuff and means something like 'not a real solution, too bad'.

Are there "beer wars" like that in other countries as well?

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

I don't know.
But there have been Cola Wars.

[Martina W.]

halcyondayz said:

But there have been Cola Wars.

Ah yes, I remember
Wasn't there an ad with an archaeologist?