Posted on 02/26/2015 6:53:09 PM PST by SamAdams76
Anheuser-Busch InBev is having a tough time getting millennials to crack open a can of Budweiser.
The worlds 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.
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I have a micro brewery close that has a first rate IPA, Porter, and a stout. They also make a blue cheese, bacon burger to die for. Life is good.
Mexicans love Bud. Tastes like burro piss, I guess.
Budweiser and Red White and Blue are just awful, awful “beers”.
I’m a country guy, And will speak for most of us out here.
We drink Busch Lite.
Quantity. Not Quality.
I was trying to think of the word that best describes Budweiser.Beer is not that word.
Bingo.
Founder’s Breakfast Stout? Excellent choice!
"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense." |
I quit drinking Sam Adams and Guiness after they protested bans on gay parades. I don’t trust what is in their foam. My current favorite is Tommyknocker Butthead Bock.
Have you had their 120? Woo! Intense!
When Lowenbrau showed up, they finally had something too compare Schlitz and Bud to.
One of the majors did a little market research in West Germany back in the 70's with a blind taste-test. The German beer-drinkers excoriated what they were testing and were horrified to discover that they were lambasting American beers. They explained to the marketing men, "We thought you were offering us East German beers!"
Orthodox Marxist-Leninist Socialism and crony capitalism. Funny how the end result is the same.
Back in the 1950s, when I was a teenager, I spent a summer cycling around Europe. That was when I learned what good beer tastes like. I went over cheap on the Holland America Line, and they served Heineken beer at the dinner table.
Yum!
And cycling through France, you could take an empty bottle into a village shop and get it filled with red vin ordinaire for practically nothing. Yum! Empty the bottle for lunch and dinner, and it’s ready for the next day!
Now in America at least we have craft beers.
No. Hoppy?
That is a good beer.
90% of the microbrews are so full of hops they taste like pine-sol. Same with most IPAs.
I was never a big lager lager fan; I prefer easy to drink ales.
Oh yeah. It’s a sipping beer.
Maybe if my local brewery starts bottling again, I’ll have to send you probably one of the best double IPAs in California. Only problem is we keep draining the brewery before they can bottle. ;) I’m surrounded by hop head breweries, and lucked out that the closest one is actually brewed by someone who thinks that hops are a flavoring that should be in balance with the heavy grain bill brew.
Fat Tire and Moose Drool are two winter regulars for me.
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