Budweiser losing the battle with craft beers

New York Post ^ | February 26, 2015

[SamAdams76]

Anheuser-Busch InBev is having a tough time getting millennials to crack open a can of Budweiser.

The world’s biggest brewer said Thursday that falling unemployment and “premium” brands are boosting overall beer sales in the US, its biggest market.

But the company is struggling to market Bud — the 139-year-old American brand with blue-collar roots — to younger drinkers, who prefer craft brews and bourbon.

[Inyo-Mono]

I'm old enough to remember a time when about the only beers available were mass-produced brews like Budweiser, Schlitz, Miller (Black Label), or Michelob. If you ordered something "exotic" like Heineken or even Lowenbrau, heads at the bar would turn and your masculinity might be called into question.

You forgot Coors.

[jazusamo]

The only thing good about Bud is the Budweiser Clydesdales.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Art.] .... younger drinkers, who prefer craft brews and bourbon.

They'd better be pretty selective about their bourbons, too. Most of the bourbons are watered-down now. Jack Black used to be 90^o proof, and the green-label Jack was 86^o proof. Both are watered down to 80^o proof now.

Better to pay up for something like 114^o "barrel-proof" Grand-Dad or high-proof Dickel that hasn't been watered. Then you can cut it with ice or fizz water the way you want.

[headsonpikes]

I’ve generally assume that the brand survived because those long-neck Buds can be handy in a bar fight.

[AlaskaErik]

Panther Whizz tastes better than Budweiser.

[hinckley buzzard]

Miller (Black Label),

You don't remember this one because Black label is made by Carling, a Canadian firm.

[deadrock]

Your favorite bottled beer cannot compare to the 'on tap' experience. It is like listening to a record/cd compared to a live act of the same band.

This proclamation is the peek of my beer snobbery.

[Colonel_Flagg]

I’m with you, sir!

[ctdonath2]

Yup, I’m done with Sam Adams after they made a big deal about being in a “gay pride” parade. I want a beer made by a company concerned about making good beer, and not about the profoundly unsanitary act of shoving one’s dick into another’s anus - and treating the act like something to publicize & celebrate.

[Rebelbase]

“Blatz”

Mine and by buddies first beer buzz as a teens. After that we became more sophisticated and switched to Schaffer. :-)

[svcw]

Lowenbrau yummmmm well until Miller bought it blaaakk
As my husband says Budweiser (and similar beers) are no better than horse piss.

[stboz]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer urine vendor.

And it all comes from the same horse!

[The_Reader_David]

Yup. The first beer I ever found worth drinking was Guinness. It’s nice to have lots of variety in good beers to choose from, though the current enthusiasm for increasingly bitter beers and ales (esp. “IPA’s”) leaves me cold. It seems to be a form of machismo among the “millenials” to drink the most bitter beer or ale one can tolerate.

The only mass-produced American pseudo-pilsner I can stand is Coors — interestingly the only one that doesn’t taste like proverbial weasel p**s when it warms up to cellar temperature.

[Mears]

Genesee !

[deweyfrank]

St. Pauli Girl Lager ain’t bad.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I quit drinking A-B products when the Arabs bought it out.

[Phillyred]

The Irish seem to love it. Nasty stuff.

[eldoradude]

This is good stuff, about to go and open a bottle right now.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I drank half a COORS years ago. It was so bad I had to drink TWO OLYMPIAS to get the Coors taste out of my mouth.

That’s when Olympia was made in Washington state.

[Gamecock]

Millennials?

Heck, I was born in 1959 and haven’t touched one since 1987.

German and Belgium. That’s where it’s at.