Posted on 06/12/2014 7:09:11 PM PDT by rickmichaels
NEW YORK — The King of Beers is bowing down to a food blogger.
Anheuser-Busch unveiled the ingredients of Budweiser and Bud Light for the first time Thursday, a day after a popular food blogger started an online petition to get major brewers to list what’s in their beverages.
Anheuser-Busch, which also makes Beck’s, Busch and Michelob beers, said it will list the ingredients for all of its other brands online “in the coming days.”
On its website, tapintoyourbeer.com, Anheuser-Busch lists the same ingredients for Budweiser and Bud Light: Water, barley malt, rice, yeast and hops.
The company said it is not required to list ingredients for its products, but will do so as Americans demand it.
“We want to meet their expectations,” the company said in a statement.
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I read somewhere that A-B is the largest purchaser of rice in America.
You are correct about InBev, they even took the BUD symbol on the NYSE. RR says brewed in St Louis.
“Sorry, the best beer on earth is an ice cold Bud in a can on a hot summers day. “
I thought the same thing until I turned 18 and could try different beers.
Rice helps them achieve the coveted ethanol in water flavor profile.
I think there’s some sort of foaming agent in Michelob. Guinness may have small amounts of fish guts in it, they’re used as “fining” to help settle out sediment.
Well Obviously you b]never partook in a Genessee.
Before embarrassing yourself further with the Budwiser talk good sir, read up on the fine stories of Genessee’s legendary ...medicinal qualities. I am sure you will have a “Come to Genny” moment.. Or perhaps a Come to “John”ny moment ;)
Rice beers always give me a terrible headache, that’s why I haven’t had Busch products for a long time.
Try the same thing with a good German hefeweizen. Heavenly.
Oh my did I have plenty of those Gennessee moments growing up in northern PA.
Beer is made from fermented grain. Many brewers use rice.
Rice-based beers tend toward bitter (as opposed to sweet), with a sharper top-note. Best served very cold.
They went to rice when the price of corn got too high.
Still perfectly acceptable to the average High School freshman, so all is well.
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Indeed! Truly medicinal!
And of course t]for those not familiar to the area, the Genessee River and the East river in NYC have much in common.
“There’s different kinds of beer?”
Not really. The large breweries that own multiple beer companies will brew one beer for many labels.
>> “and it’s actually brewed in Newark.” <<
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And right by the busiest freeway in the US (I80) in Fairfield, Ca.
I will say there is much worse. We had 2 kegs of Iron City (not IC Light) at a tailgate at PSU one time. On sale for $22 each.
No one was at the tailgate all day long. They were all in the porta-john lines. It was like there was something evil living in the kegs.
Being kids w/ no alternatives we just kept drinking it of course. I think my bowels burn to this day from that experience.
Ah, rice. Truly a quality ingredient for beer.
Budweiser is some straight up nasty brew. Drank it when I was young and dumb and didn’t know any better. The headaches the next day eventually won and I have been Budweiser free for over 20 years.
But with varying amounts of distilled water added.
Hey, I’v been Bud-free for about 50 years!
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