Rheingold Lives (Again)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The first relaunch with the Mets flopped, then the "edgy" 90s remake flopped, now... a new relaunch more like the old relaunch.

Catch it before it flops!

http://www.rheingoldbrewingcompany.com/home.html

[Guest themetfairy]

Vote for the Rheingold Pigeon

As Lunchie said, catch it quickly....

[Ceetar]

I'd heard about this. Actually, I think they have cans of it at the new yankee stadium.



on review, I was thinking of Schafer, or Schlitz.

[G-Fafif]

I attended the original relaunch (oxymoron?) press luncheon on the eve of the 1998 season. Signed the media check-in sheet behind Ralph Branca. For "affiliation," he wrote "Baseball".

Now that's an affiliation.

[Frayed Knot]

Don't want to have to go through this again

[RealityChuck]

Though one of these is strictly for The Birds -- if there's a Hitch.

[Lefty Specialist]

Mary Austin's pretty awesome. Of course, she's like 80 now, so she's probably not quite so hot.

Tippi, on the other hand, could never live up to Alfred's Grace Kelly fetish, just like Kim Novak and Eva Marie Saint before her.

They actually put them on the cans in 1957.

[Theoldmole]

And don't forget ...

[Guest themetfairy]

[TransMonk]

This thread keeps faking me out.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm no design expert, but that's really icky packaging. I mean I know they are positioning Rheingold in what they call the "sub-premium" (i.e.: cheap-o) beer category but that's no excuse for it to look cheap. That font looks like a rip-off of their old logo, not an update of it. And bring back the Extra Dry. Don't squander your equity, Rheingold, don;t imitate it, claim it as your own!

[seawolf17]

TransMonk wrote: This thread keeps faking me out.

I didn't even think he was dead, never mind living again. Beverly Hills Cop was hilarious.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Rheingold used to be the beer of the Mets



Now it looks like the beer of the D-Backs.

[G-Fafif]

My beer is Rheingold the dry beer
Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer...

(Jump in, somebody)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

It's refreshing not sweet
It's the extra dry treat

[batmagadanleadoff]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfc4InJ7shk

[G-Fafif]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfc4InJ7shk

Now THAT'S a parade!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Nostalgia aside*, is there a reason I should pick some up? Is Rheingold-- at least, in the classic formulation-- a decent cheap beer option?


*And I'm not discounting nostalgia; there are a lot dumber reasons to make a beverage purchase-- take it from me, someone who's semi-hoarding Four Loko.

[G-Fafif]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: is there a reason I should pick some up?

I'll bet drunkenness is in the running.

[RealityChuck]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfc4InJ7shk

You can't more iconic than Peter Arno.

[Lefty Specialist]

Well, I had some, and on a scale of 1-10 I'd say it's about a 3. Won't make you vomit unless you consume medically unwise quantities of it, at least.

It's not as taste-free as Coors Light, but it's not the kind of beer where you say, "Man that was good, think I'll have another."

Over/under on the re-re-re-disappearance of Rheingold- 9 months.

But Casey liked it, even though he knows better than to play pepper. Someone could get hoit.

[Willets Point]

TheOldMole wrote: And don't forget ...

Exotic? Sometimes I'm glad I live in these times and not in the past.

[G-Fafif]

If Miss Subways and Miss Rheingold had a fight, who would win?

[Fman99]

RealityChuck wrote: Though one of these is strictly for The Birds -- if there's a Hitch.

Now that's a six pack that I'd like to pound.

[Ceetar]

Fman99 wrote: RealityChuck wrote: Though one of these is strictly for The Birds -- if there's a Hitch. Now that's a six pack that I'd like to pound.

they're probably like 80+ now.

[Lefty Specialist]

G-Fafif wrote: If Miss Subways and Miss Rheingold had a fight, who would win?

Miss Rheingold. She's packing.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Rheingold is Bob Murphy's beer. (Was).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnSa-aEOy5g&feature=related

[Frayed Knot]

Miss Rheingold. She's packing.

I didn't realize that Sarah Palin was a Miss Rheingold model early in her career.

[RealityChuck]

Though one of these is strictly for The Birds -- if there's a Hitch. Now that's a six pack that I'd like to pound. they're probably like 80+ now.

Here's Tippi Hedren four years ago:

[batmagadanleadoff]

Lefty Specialist wrote: But Casey liked it, even though he knows better than to play pepper. Someone could get hoit.

I never did say where Casey got his non-standard Mets socks from.

(I know we had a thread about that '62 Mets Rheingold ad --Edgy started it -- but I can't find it.