Rainier: A Beer Odyssey Is Now a Book!
Created in partnership with local publisher Minor Matters Books, Running Wild: The Rainier Beer Campaigns 1974-1987 expands on the documentary’s story. The book brings together an extensive collection of Rainier Beer advertising, drawn from the same archive that shaped the film. For fans of the documentary, Running Wild offers a tangible way to explore this iconic chapter of Pacific Northwest History.
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Rainier: A Beer Odyssey is a independent feature documentary on the iconic, groundbreaking Rainier Beer TV commercials which ran from 1974 to 1987.
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Based on the documentary Rainier: A Beer Odyssey, by Isaac Olsen, Justin Peterson, and Robby Peterson. Essay by Kathleen Cain.
9.5 x 10.75 inches; approximately 150 color and black and white images; 144 pages; hardcover.
Rainier: A Beer Odyssey is an acclaimed documentary romp through the 1970s–1980s culture of the Northwest, featuring the brilliant minds and eyes behind the Rainier Beer campaigns of that period.
The defining tropes of those advertisements are also hallmarks of a region in transition. Logging and fishing industries were bumping up against tribal rights and environmentalism. Seattle, the city that launched the nation’s first farmers market and promoted the Space Age of the 21st century, was reckoning with a depressed economy triggered by Boeing’s massive layoffs, and the social shifts bolstered by newly-legislated civil liberties throughout the nation.
Amidst all of that was a quiet unifying force, the hyper-local Rainier, “every person’s” beer, produced in Seattle with hops from Eastern Washington's Yakima Valley.
Running Wild: The Rainier Beer Campaigns 1974–1987 is drawn from the 2024 film Rainier: A Beer Odyssey, and includes select advertisements, imagery, and behind-the-scenes concept material, while also exploring the film’s origins as a five-year labor of friendship and mutual interest between its creators—Isaac Olsen, Justin Peterson, and Robby Peterson.