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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 world’s 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: beer; budweiser; craftbeers; inbev; poeticjustice
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To: SamAdams76

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.


21 posted on 02/26/2015 7:02:38 PM PST by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: SamAdams76

Mexicans love Bud. Tastes like burro piss, I guess.


22 posted on 02/26/2015 7:03:31 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: SamAdams76

Budweiser and Red White and Blue are just awful, awful “beers”.


23 posted on 02/26/2015 7:03:46 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SamAdams76
In the SF Bay Area we always had a craft beer available. Still my favorite today.


24 posted on 02/26/2015 7:05:14 PM PST by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!")
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To: SamAdams76

I’m a country guy, And will speak for most of us out here.

We drink Busch Lite.

Quantity. Not Quality.


25 posted on 02/26/2015 7:05:16 PM PST by MountainDad (Support your local Militia)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

I was trying to think of the word that best describes Budweiser.Beer is not that word.


26 posted on 02/26/2015 7:05:18 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: gundog

Bingo.


27 posted on 02/26/2015 7:06:59 PM PST by Fungi (Evolution is piece by piece over billions of years. At what point did a precursor become a human?)
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To: SamAdams76

Founder’s Breakfast Stout? Excellent choice!


28 posted on 02/26/2015 7:07:16 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: Colonel_Flagg
Indeed it was!

Like the Clydesdales - the beer is pig swill!

"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."

29 posted on 02/26/2015 7:08:20 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
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To: ansel12

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.


30 posted on 02/26/2015 7:08:55 PM PST by MtnClimber (For views of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: deadrock

Have you had their 120? Woo! Intense!


31 posted on 02/26/2015 7:10:11 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: SamAdams76
Anheuser-Busch and Miller watered down and adulterated their products (for profit) over the years and wound up selling panther p*ss to unsuspecting Americans who had, in many markets, no standard of comparison.

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.

32 posted on 02/26/2015 7:13:49 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: SamAdams76

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.


33 posted on 02/26/2015 7:13:52 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: goodwithagun

No. Hoppy?


34 posted on 02/26/2015 7:14:15 PM PST by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: Hugin

That is a good beer.


35 posted on 02/26/2015 7:14:53 PM PST by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: SamAdams76

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.


36 posted on 02/26/2015 7:15:14 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: deadrock

Oh yeah. It’s a sipping beer.


37 posted on 02/26/2015 7:15:26 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: deadrock

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.


38 posted on 02/26/2015 7:16:30 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: SamAdams76
Wait til Yuengling's next expansion. Budweiser thinks they have problems now...


39 posted on 02/26/2015 7:17:09 PM PST by FlJoePa
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To: SamAdams76

Fat Tire and Moose Drool are two winter regulars for me.


40 posted on 02/26/2015 7:17:43 PM PST by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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