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Rheingold Lives (Again)

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 23 2010 01:31 PM

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! [url]http://www.rheingoldbrewingcompany.com/home.html

themetfairy Nov 23 2010 01:39 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

Vote for the Rheingold Pigeon As Lunchie said, catch it quickly....

Ceetar Nov 23 2010 01:41 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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 Nov 23 2010 01:47 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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 Nov 23 2010 01:49 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

Don't want to have to go through this again

RealityChuck Nov 23 2010 06:49 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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

Lefty Specialist Nov 24 2010 03:24 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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 Nov 24 2010 08:49 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

And don't forget ...

themetfairy Dec 10 2010 10:52 AM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

TransMonk Dec 10 2010 10:58 AM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

This thread keeps faking me out.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 10 2010 11:18 AM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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 Dec 10 2010 11:26 AM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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 Dec 10 2010 11:32 AM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

Rheingold used to be the beer of the Mets Now it looks like the beer of the D-Backs.

G-Fafif Dec 10 2010 11:38 AM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

My beer is Rheingold the dry beer Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer... (Jump in, somebody)

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 10 2010 11:46 AM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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

batmagadanleadoff Dec 10 2010 11:49 AM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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

G-Fafif Dec 10 2010 11:57 AM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfc4InJ7shk Now THAT'S a parade!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 10 2010 12:21 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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 Dec 10 2010 12:23 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: is there a reason I should pick some up? I'll bet drunkenness is in the running.

RealityChuck Dec 10 2010 01:31 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfc4InJ7shk You can't more iconic than Peter Arno.

Lefty Specialist Dec 10 2010 03:41 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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 Dec 10 2010 06:32 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

TheOldMole wrote: And don't forget ... Exotic? Sometimes I'm glad I live in these times and not in the past.

G-Fafif Dec 10 2010 06:46 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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

Fman99 Dec 10 2010 07:55 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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 Dec 10 2010 07:57 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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 Dec 10 2010 07:58 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

G-Fafif wrote: If Miss Subways and Miss Rheingold had a fight, who would win? Miss Rheingold. She's packing.

batmagadanleadoff Dec 11 2010 02:45 AM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

Rheingold is Bob Murphy's beer. (Was). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnSa-aEO ... re=related

Frayed Knot Dec 11 2010 06:05 AM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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

RealityChuck Dec 11 2010 09:21 AM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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 Dec 11 2010 10:15 AM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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.

batmagadanleadoff Dec 11 2010 08:47 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

batmagadanleadoff wrote: 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. So how does a thread that's less than a year old vanish?

batmagadanleadoff Dec 11 2010 08:59 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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. So how does a thread that's less than a year old vanish? Ha! http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/1290 ... 2962.shtml

G-Fafif Dec 11 2010 11:04 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

It's refreshing, not sweet... (We never did finish the jingle.)

TheOldMole Dec 11 2010 11:19 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

it's the extra dry treat...

batmagadanleadoff Dec 11 2010 11:19 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

It's refreshing-- not sweet. It's the extra dry treat. Won't you try extra dry Rheingold beeeeeeeeer! How 'bout them Casey's socks?

TheOldMole Dec 12 2010 06:51 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

You can buy Rheingold at two different locations in Saugerties!

batmagadanleadoff Jan 15 2011 06:02 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

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. So how does a thread that's less than a year old vanish? Ha! http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/1290 ... 2962.shtml The socks Casey's wearing in this ad are the same socks worn by Gary Cooper in Pride of the Yankees. On the day of the shoot, the photographers realized that they didn't have any baseball socks for Casey. So one of the photogs drove over to the nearby Hollywood studios, where he raided the wardrobe department for Cooper's socks.

TheOldMole Jan 15 2011 11:20 PM Re: Rheingold Lives (Again)

Now that's worthwhile trivia.