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June 24, 2009

Remembering Ed McMahon as beer pitchman

Like a lot folks, I remember Ed McMahon primarily as Johnny Carson's sidekick. McMahon died yesterday at the age of 86.

But he also sold a lot of beer.

He did ads for Budweiser as this black-and white-video from Busch Gardens in Tampa shows.

And according to the obit in the Philadelphia Inquirer, he also did commercials for Erlanger Beer, a job that required drinking a beer, over and over again, as the commercial was shot.

Anyone remember these commercials?

Anyone remember Erlanger beer?

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About Rob Kasper

Rob Kasper, a features columnist, has been writing about beer for 20 years, and he remembers when Anchor Christmas and Noche Buena were about the only beers at a holiday tasting and Sisson’s was the only brewpub in Baltimore. A collection of his columns, "Raising Kids and Tomatoes, Amusing Tales and Appetizing Recipes," was published in 1998. He lives with his wife, Judith, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, in a downtown Baltimore rowhouse. They have two grown sons, who come home from time to time and drink their father’s beer.
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