Few micro could produce the quality of Bud, and I’m a dark beer guy.
You can like it or not, but strictly speaking it is extremely high quality.
Interestingly enough, my Czech friends and family love Bud.
IMO, American beer flagships suffered from a lack of variety, which fostered derision.
Bud gives me an instant hangover, it’s undrinkable rice pee. And it’s been getting worse, ever few years it gets lighter in color and flavor. The American beer flagships rose up at a time when the American food palette was terrible, we ate and drank some seriously nasty junk from around WWII through the 90s. The era of instant coffee, weak beer, and franchise restaurants. We still do to an extent but we’re getting better. Which is where the micro-brew revolution (and its equivalents in many other food groups) came from. Not sure what happened to finally make us realize our food was terrible, but I’m glad.