This motif was part advertisement, part cinema — the brainchildren of Heckler Associates, a local ad agency that made Rainier Beer’s personality and brand into the stuff of Seattle legend.

MAN WHO HELPED MAKE THE DRINK POPULAR. IF YOU LIVE IN KENTUCKY AND ARE OF AGE, OF COURSE YOU’VE PROBABLY HAD AN OLD FASHIONED. THE COCKTAIL HAS BEEN AROUND FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY, BUT DID YOU ...