shrine to the prophet of americana

As someone who was actually around for the introduction of "light beers" in the '80s (the Ad Wars era when the product ecosystem...

As someone who was actually around for the introduction of “light beers” in the ‘80s (the Ad Wars era when the product ecosystem had consolidated from regional champions to a few national combines that took direct shots at each other as the only angle to expand market share, until product manufacturers focused on the balance with themselves-consolidated retailers in the 1990s) it’s actually funny how Coors Light/Miller Lite/Bud Light is the 'Merican real-man norm now and it’s the effete urban hipsters that wallow in heavy-ass IPAs

Tagged: amhist I was only single digits but I was precocious in parsing ads as insight into the American zeitgeist