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Budweiser losing the battle with craft beers
New York Post ^
| February 26, 2015
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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: beer; budweiser; craftbeers; inbev; poeticjustice
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I'm old enough to remember a time when about the only beers available were mass-produced brews like Budweiser, Schlitz, Miller (Black Label), or Michelob. If you ordered something "exotic" like Heineken or even Lowenbrau, heads at the bar would turn and your masculinity might be called into question.
I'm glad those days are over.
Never before have we had so many choices in beer. Beer that makes Budweiser undrinkable by comparison.
One of my favorite brews right now is Founder's Breakfast Stout.
To: SamAdams76
I feel sorry for everyone back in the day, the big name brands are terrible.
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posted on
02/26/2015 6:55:36 PM PST
by
Shadow44
To: SamAdams76
“Heineken? Pabst Blue Ribbon!”
Frank Booth
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posted on
02/26/2015 6:56:55 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: SamAdams76
Never before have we had so many choices in beer. Beer that makes Budweiser undrinkable by comparison. Budweiser was undrinkable long before the craft explosion.
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posted on
02/26/2015 6:57:11 PM PST
by
Colonel_Flagg
(You're either in or in the way.)
To: SamAdams76
F&*# THAT S*$%! PABST BLUE RIBBON!
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posted on
02/26/2015 6:57:28 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: SamAdams76
The answer? Make better beer. Sorry 1955 is done and gone.
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posted on
02/26/2015 6:57:56 PM PST
by
dinodino
To: SamAdams76
Who would drink that garbage when there are (literally) hundreds of better choices readily available?
Maybe they can team up with all the other large brewers and get the Government to regulate small brewers out of business.
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posted on
02/26/2015 6:58:43 PM PST
by
Tea Party Terrorist
(Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
To: SamAdams76
A six pack of their rice beer costs almost as much as a craft beer brewed by people who actually care how their brew tastes.
To: SamAdams76
Budweiser losing the battle with craft beers
Couldn't have happened to a nicer urine vendor.
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posted on
02/26/2015 6:58:55 PM PST
by
fr_freak
To: SamAdams76
American IPA beers seem to go over board with the hops to the point of grapefruit being the dominate flavor. However, Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA is fantastic. Myyyyy word.
According to a premier beer website(I can email you the name of it), it ranks 21 out 100 of the top beers in the world.
Just like Cali. wines took over the world, American beers are in another dimension.
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posted on
02/26/2015 6:59:12 PM PST
by
deadrock
(I is someone else.)
To: SamAdams76
Grandad from New York - asked him just now and he said he remembers: Trommers, Reingold, Blatz and some others he can’t remember ...
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posted on
02/26/2015 7:00:04 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
To: dfwgator
PBR is truly the worst beer I have ever tasted.
The best beer I have tasted is some of the various flavors of Abita.
That stuff is just excellent.
I can only drink one beer since I very rarely ever drink, so when I do it’s strictly for the taste, and I go for Abita.
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posted on
02/26/2015 7:00:09 PM PST
by
chris37
(heartless)
To: Tea Party Terrorist
It’s Shiner Bock or nothing.
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posted on
02/26/2015 7:00:29 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: SamAdams76
Hubby and I went to Beerfest in Pittsburgh last weekend. What a treat! I really enjoyed sampling the microbrews. They are much better than Bud. At the risk of sounding like a beer snob, affordable micros are all we drink.
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posted on
02/26/2015 7:00:48 PM PST
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: SamAdams76
Beer is only good for killing Garden Snails and Slugs ,they love it ,then Die , LOL
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posted on
02/26/2015 7:00:54 PM PST
by
molson209
(Blank)
To: Snickering Hound
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posted on
02/26/2015 7:01:30 PM PST
by
Empireoftheatom48
(God help the Republic but will he?)
To: SamAdams76
Samuel Adams is too left wing, but anything that drives down the cost of beer, is good news.
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posted on
02/26/2015 7:01:33 PM PST
by
ansel12
(Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
To: SamAdams76
Cycles are funny, unpredictable things. My brother worked for Barton Brands in the early 1980s. They were a major marketer of "well" drinks, the generic boozes when you ordered a drink but not a brand. They were falling on hard times because the drinking of "brown goods" (whiskey, bourban, scotch, etal) were much on the wane. The younger set were imbibing Bacardi's and Tanqueray and lots of voldka. So Barton searched for a product to revive its sagging sales and found.....Corona beer!
But now the "brown goods" are back in vogue, it appears.
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posted on
02/26/2015 7:01:43 PM PST
by
jobim
(.)
To: SamAdams76
Budweiser has ALWAYS been undrinkable. You hear people say it gives you a headache. It is true. I cannot drink one without getting a headache so I never drink it.
It is simply the free market taking its course. As for Budweiser, my heart bleeds. The former owners were astute and saw the writing on the wall, bailed and now the European owners are struggling. Hey, whatever works and tastes good. Cheers.
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posted on
02/26/2015 7:02:09 PM PST
by
Fungi
(Evolution is piece by piece over billions of years. At what point did a precursor become a human?)
To: SamAdams76
I am hardly a beer conniseur. That said Budweiser always tasted like cheap waterey skunk piss to me. It’s the stuff you buy when you don’t have a lot of money but want a lot of “beer”.
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posted on
02/26/2015 7:02:13 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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