highlighting its commercials and the unsung heroes behind them. Founded in 1854, under a different name, the ale that would later become Rainier Beer was brewed long before Washington became a state.

Today Rainier is no longer ... the golden age of Rainier Beer. It was this mythologizing that drove director Isaac Olsen to make a full documentary film about the commercials and the small firm ...

The locally flavored documentary, coming to SIFF Film Center, is for lovers of the brewing company and for those wanting to know more about its classic ads.

Seeing the late actor Mickey Rooney doggedly paddling down a Washington river before coming upon a lone “wild Rainier” and clumsily ... “It’s not just the beer and you can’t really ...