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Friday, October 19, 2012

Booze / Celeb Will Ferrell's Swedish Old Milwaukee Beer Commercials

Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:53 PM

Look! Don't ask me to explain everything, okay?!? Just accept the fact that Will Ferrell is making commercials for Old Milwaukee beer in Sweden, and this is why, according to him:

I just love a good, crappy beer.

Fair enough. Here are two of them.

Translated: "This is my boat. This is my woman. And this is my beer. Old Milwaukee. Ehh... It's all right."

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His wife really is Swedish so they spend time in Sweden with family.

Posted by tkc on October 19, 2012 at 2:13 PM

people in sweden would drink that swill? they have a continent of delicious choices, the cheapest of which are 8x as good as OM.

has to be a joke.

Posted by Max Solomon on October 19, 2012 at 2:19 PM

Love the dubstep one.

Posted by biffp on October 19, 2012 at 2:24 PM

What a brilliantly funny way to schill for a wannabe PBR competitor.

Posted by Ipso Facto

on October 19, 2012 at 2:26 PM

lol I like these. I suddenly want an Old Milwaukee... oh wait, no, no... the feeling passed.

Posted by ScienceNerd on October 19, 2012 at 2:33 PM

@2 Old Milwaukee isn't really that much worse than the cheapest beers in Sweden (which all taste exactly the same.

Also, it should be noted, a "cheap" beer in Sweden still costs about 8-9 USD at any bar. You take what you get.

Den här är min båt!

Posted by aseth on October 19, 2012 at 2:51 PM

Are these released in Sweden solely to go viral in the US? Do they even sell this in the US?

Posted by emor on October 19, 2012 at 2:54 PM

@7 Sadly, yes. It is sold in the U.S., or at least here in the Northeast. It's always been a bargain-basement brand. You can buy better, but not cheaper. I'm not a big fan of American-style fizzy light lagers, but this really isn't the worst of its type.

Posted by Brooklyn Reader on October 19, 2012 at 3:05 PM

He's done a bunch of them for the American market as well, but they've only been shown on local stations in the mid west. They are up on the YouTube.

Posted by Westside forever on October 19, 2012 at 4:02 PM

Did you realize that Sweden cancelled all nuclear reactor maintenance until next summer?

MMM. Radioactive beer!

It gives you extra eyes!

Posted by Will in Seattle

on October 19, 2012 at 4:34 PM

Bless his heart, he's trying so hard.

Posted by Drew2u on October 19, 2012 at 4:36 PM

@4 Pabst owns Old Milwaukee. And in researching that I found this.

Posted by Matt the Engineer on October 19, 2012 at 10:52 PM

Like @6 pointed out - it can't be worse than the light lager "grasscutter beer" most people drink anyway. Which is basicly nothing, although Staropramen is pretty ok I guess... but personally I hardly ever drink beer so who am I to judge?

We are in the booze belt so its just recently that the idea that beer could come in varying qualities struck home here. I mean beyond old wisdoms/stupidities like "east german beer wont give you a hang over".

I haven't seen these commercials at all. Perhaps their aimed at the american market?

@10 Did we? I know that allot of greenpeace activists managed to break into one of the larger ones a week ago hiding from the cops in there for a few days and that there is an old one going up for sale in eastern Sweden (ever wanted to own your own nuclear facility? Now is the time! Never used! Radiation Free! http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/saljes-karnkraf… ). But I haven't heard about them stopping maintenance... you got a link/citation (would be worthy to spread on)?

Posted by JensR

on October 19, 2012 at 11:42 PM

Denver is one of the microbrew capitals of the world. It always amazes me when I travel to other places and find a selection of Bud, Coors and Miller in their bars. I can't believe people still drink that watered-down piss.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty