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Budweiser’s ingredients revealed for first time by Anheuser-Busch after pressure from food blogger
National Post ^ | June 12, 2014 | AP

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at life.nationalpost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: alcohol; beer
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To: FlJoePa

Kidding aside I actually liked Genny regular. A lot. I must have. I drank more of it than I can remember. Often. I often drank to the point I couldn’t remember.

Sober for over 20 now ;)


61 posted on 06/12/2014 8:27:35 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: rickmichaels

An interesting book about beer in America

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0151010129/ref=mw_dp_mdsc?dsc=1&qid=1402629659&sr=1-17


62 posted on 06/12/2014 8:28:25 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: FlJoePa

Only if that horse had diseased kidneys.


63 posted on 06/12/2014 9:08:12 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: bigdaddy45

Weird that so many have such strong distaste for the brand that has the #2 and #3 best selling beers in the world (beaten only by an even lighter, flavorless Chinese beer).


64 posted on 06/12/2014 9:16:04 PM PDT by UncleHambone ("Laughter is America's most important export." - Walt Disney)
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To: rickmichaels
It is not known generally but Budweiser and Coors light were second and third as the best beers in the world. Even less known is that old stale horse piss was first. I guess this still gives Budweiser first place as the old stale horse piss was from the Budweiser Clydesdales whom most fortunately only drink good beer from the many fine microbrews in central and South Texas.

If you know what good beer is you will understand my post.

65 posted on 06/12/2014 10:23:20 PM PDT by cpdiii
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To: canuck_conservative
Yes. If you take a tour of the Anheuser Busch brewery in St. Louis, they really show you everything.

No "secret" ingredients. And yes, they do use beechwood in the bottom of the brewing vats.

At the end of the tour you go to the tasting room.

Up until then I really did not like Budweiser.

But when you have an ice-cold ultra-fresh Bud out of the tap, it's really something special.

Must be the canning process that takes flavor out.

Same thing with the Coor's brewery. Wonderful in the tap room, "meh" out of a can.

O/T, one of the most fun things about the A-B brewery tour is that it really is a self-contained "city" in of itself. Imagine getting hurt on the job and an Anheuser-Busch logoed ambulance shows up.

No I'm not joking. They have one.

66 posted on 06/12/2014 11:30:46 PM PDT by boop (I just wanted a President. But I got a rock.)
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To: G Larry

I used to love Mickey’s Big Mouth. The only beer bottle that has a top large enough that you can pee into it when you can’t find a bathroom.


67 posted on 06/12/2014 11:32:21 PM PDT by boop (I just wanted a President. But I got a rock.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

PBR


68 posted on 06/12/2014 11:47:07 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
PBR...

Once brewed in Newark, NY. Its landmark 55,000 gallon 25 ton water tank on top of the brewery was a giant 60' tall PBR bottle.

Both the bottle and the brewery are now gone.

Landmark giant Pabst Blue Ribbon bottle lands in Newark

69 posted on 06/13/2014 12:43:33 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Norm Lenhart
LOL Norm clear and pristine -

There are few rivers with more silt

the Ganges being one ;)

That said, they likely draw from the Highland park reservoir, which draws from Hemlock, which is a pretty clean lake

There is nothing like fresh Cream Ale and I absolutely love driving by the place when they are cooking - It smells like hot corn flakes

70 posted on 06/13/2014 4:10:55 AM PDT by Revelation 911
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To: Rebelbase

funny how tastes change - I loved MGD....


71 posted on 06/13/2014 4:12:12 AM PDT by Revelation 911
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To: Norm Lenhart

You speak of Genny Screamers.

The magic of the next day when your GI Tract erupts in violence marked by a stream like a pencil beam laser, capable of cutting out the bottom of the toilet bowl, while emitting a stench that cannot be described or tolerated.

Been there, done it. Had to use the T-shirt to clean up the mess


72 posted on 06/13/2014 4:20:11 AM PDT by 5Madman2 (There is no such thing as an experienced suicide bomber)
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To: bigdaddy45

An overwhelming yes, as I know men who work for them, and I understand their warehouse distributors average workday is over 12 hours locally.


73 posted on 06/13/2014 4:22:42 AM PDT by Kackikat
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To: Ray76

The fish guts you refer to is called isinglass . It does a good job of clearing up cloudy beer. ( proteins are what makes beer cloudy ) Better than any of the alternatives except for comercial filtration, which American mass produced lagers are almost all put through.

I don’t mind a little isinglass in my beer. It is not at all perceivable. If isinglass is used it is craft brewed by a smaller guy, and almost always better than the tasteless mass produced lagers.


74 posted on 06/13/2014 4:30:41 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: zeebee

Tried that last weekend. Fine beer. Strange how you don’t get the high alcohol hotness from it, but it kicks like a mule. Very crisp and seems light, but its not. That is for sure.


75 posted on 06/13/2014 4:35:29 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Genessee? Was that the cream ale in the green bottle?

We use to drink that when we couldn’t find Stegmeir.


76 posted on 06/13/2014 5:53:51 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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To: bigdaddy45

Some years ago my wife and I spent a wonderful vacation in Ireland. While we drank Guiness and other Irish beers we found that most of the young people there were drinking Budweiser. Go figure!


77 posted on 06/13/2014 6:21:56 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: Kackikat

That may be, but that doesn’t mean the beer is any good. There are SO many choices these days, and I haven’t had a budweiser in years.


78 posted on 06/13/2014 6:44:41 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: Ray76
"Guinness may have small amounts of fish guts in it, they’re used as “fining” to help settle out sediment."

I have always been a fan of Wiedemann beer...very hoppy...a little bitter

Isinglass....is a kind of finings that is used to clarify beer. I always thought it to be some kind of "moss"... But maybe not..

79 posted on 06/13/2014 7:13:15 AM PDT by unread (Rescind the 17th. Amendment...bring the power BACK to the states...!)
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To: bigdaddy45

Oy Vey!


80 posted on 06/13/2014 7:55:01 AM PDT by Kackikat
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