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The predominant alcohol-related advertising to appear on Zippos was produced for brewery companies.  Budweiser was an early adopter of the use of Zippos for marketing and advertising, and slogans such as "This Bud's For You" can be found on Budweiser Zippos. 

1987 prototype brass Zippo with advertising for Matty's Light Ale, Blackburn, Lancashire.

1976 Zippo advertising Miller High Life, a  leading beer brand of Miller Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Another 1988 prototype advertiser for Skeeters, with a gray paint finish.

1988 prototype brass Zippo advertising Skeeters Inn in Eldred, Pennsylvania.  Eldred has a population of 868.

1968 Zippo reads "Ron Bacardi - el mejor del mundo desde 1862". founded by Don Facundo Bacardi Masso in Cuba, Bacardi based in Bermuda today.

1989 Zippo for Miller High Life.

1974 Zippo with a can of Genesee Cream Ale, also known and "Genny Cream" was introduced in 1960.

1994 Zippo "Proud to be Your Bud" a very special gift from my son and best bud Jaime.

1985 prototype black Zippo with a logo for Moosehead Beer on one side and for Blackhills Bandits, Ellesworth AFB, South Dakota on the other.

1987 prototype brass Zippo for Vondel, a Belgian brown ale.

1992 Zippo with a frog for Froggy's Saloon, Daytona Beach, Florida, the world's largest biker bar.

1993 high-polish Zippo with the reverse-engraved logo of Budweiser.

Beer Zippos

1962 loss-proof Zippo for Hamm's Beer - "Thanks for a job well done", with signature of George J. Faust.  Hamm's was founded by Theodore Hamm in 1865 near Minneapolis, Minnesota.

1936 Zippo with a logo in metallique for Manru, a New York beer brewed by the Schreiber Brewing Company. The reverse has the initials "DLM" in metallique.

1979 Zippo advertising Primo beer from Hawaii was brewed in Hawaii until 1998 when it went out of business  after the brewery
and bottling operations were shipped to the mainland. 100
years in production, the beer was introduced by Honolulu Brewing & Malting Co. Ltd. in 1898.

The high-polish 1981 Zippo on the left and the 1982 regular matte finish Zippo on the right are prototypes with Bud Man, the "Dauntless Defender of Quality" Bud Man became the official mascot of Budweiser.  These are the only known examples of Bud Man appearing on a Zippo. The back of the high-polish model has the signature of Ted Rosequist. 

1971 slim Zippo adverting Rainier Beer "Alaska...North to the Future".  The Rainier Brewing Company was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1886 and was closed in 1999.

The lighter on the left is an early 1940-41 model Zippo with an early Anheuser-Bush Budweiser logo in metallique.  The Zippo on the right is dated 1947 and has the same metallique-style logo, unusual for a post World War II Zippo.