AP: Budvar beer exports reach record high in 2014

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[DeaconBenjamin]

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech state-owned brewery Budejovicky Budvar, which has been fighting a long legal battle with U.S. beer giant Anheuser-Busch over the use of the "Budweiser" brand, says its overall output and exports reached record highs in 2014.

Budejovicky Budvar NP says exports rose by 6 percent to reach 813,000 hectoliters (21.48 million gallons) of beer, the best result in 119 years.

Budvar exported to 70 countries last year, five more than the previous year. Overall output reached 1.457 million hectoliters, up 2.5 percent from 2013.

Profit figures from the brewery are due in April.

Both Budvar and Anheuser-Busch — which was taken over by Belgian brewer InBev in 2008 to form AB InBev — claim exclusive right to the Budweiser name.

[W.]

I've read that Adolphus Busch stole from Budvar:

The name.
The recipe.
The slogan. Was "Beer of kings."

But I'd bet neither Budvar nor Busch's original Budweiser were brewed with adjuncts, Like rice, as it used to be so proudly proclaimed on every Bud label...

And don't get me going on their light beer. I tried it:

:(~

[CrazyIvan]

“And don’t get me going on their light beer. I tried it:”

Making love in a canoe?

[Netz]

Anybody who has tasted a Czech beer understands why Budvar is the grandaddy of Budweiser but there it stops. No US beer comes close to the Czech ones...

[duckworth]

High school, 40 years ago. We would drink just about any beer we could get, but we all hated Budweiser. We called it “headache beer.” And just for old times’ sake: here are some names from back then: Schlitz, Schmidts, Strohs, Straub, Genessee, Gibbons, Stegmaier, Duke, Iron City, Kaiers, Stoneys, Piels, Pabst. Oh, gotta get back to work now...

[MMaschin]

It's not just the name that Anheuser-Busch stole, they tried to duplicate the flavor as well.

The first time I traveled to London, by British cousin explained to me how the American Budweiser was a knockoff of the Czech beer, and that I should order "Budweiser Budvar". I tried it and said "wow - it tastes like the American version but with a LOT more flavor".

The Czech's were exporting their version of Budweiser to America even before Anheuser-Busch started to make their knockoff version!

[FlJoePa]

American owned, family run:

[Fiji Hill]

Budvar should have the right to the name Budweiser. After all, it is the one brewed in Budweis, the German name for České Budějovice.

[jstaff]

Question: What do you get when you cross a pig with a Bud Light?

Answer: Trick question. There are some things even a pig won’t do.

[DAC21]

A shame Yuengling doesn’t make it out West. Had a couple in the Hard Rock Café In Nashville a few years back while visiting with a Tenn. buddy on our way to the Indy Time trials.

[Hotmetal]

All American brewed except a few from Belgium. Yeah, I might have a problem.

[AU72]

Iron City

There's a blast from the past. A good weekend can be had for only 4.00 a case (1971).

[T-Bone Texan]

"...All American brewed except a few from Belgium. Yeah, I might have a problem. ...

I respectfully disagree, FRiend. You have a solution.

[T-Bone Texan]

Because it is cool outside and my child is older, I am brewing for the first time in 3 years.

Everything but the kitchen sink beer: All the odds and ends laying around that I never discarded. My bucket of malt looked like a moldy science experiment. I did not use that one, but the hops were fine.

[gr8eman]

It's not just the name that Anheuser-Busch stole, they tried to duplicate the flavor as well.

If they tried to duplicate the flavor of Budvar they did not come close. They tried to duplicate the flavor of cat pee and succeeded IMO!

[duffee]

My favorite beer is St. Pauli Girl, my wife looks like the girl on the label, at least she did forty five years ago.

[okie01]

They tried to duplicate the flavor of cat pee and succeeded IMO!

Really???!!! You're familiar with the flavor of cat pee???!!!

[Organic Panic]

The imported Czech beers are rancid in the US. Gotta go straight to the source.