Budweiser losing the battle with craft beers

New York Post ^ | February 26, 2015

[CrazyIvan]

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.

[gundog]

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

[Secret Agent Man]

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

[Hugin]

In the SF Bay Area we always had a craft beer available. Still my favorite today.

[MountainDad]

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

We drink Busch Lite.

Quantity. Not Quality.

[Farmer Dean]

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

[Fungi]

Bingo.

[Yogafist]

Founder’s Breakfast Stout? Excellent choice!

[ConorMacNessa]

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."

[MtnClimber]

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.

[goodwithagun]

Have you had their 120? Woo! Intense!

[lentulusgracchus]

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.

[Cicero]

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.

[deadrock]

No. Hoppy?

[deadrock]

That is a good beer.

[Born to Conserve]

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.

[goodwithagun]

Oh yeah. It’s a sipping beer.

[kingu]

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.

[FlJoePa]

Wait til Yuengling's next expansion. Budweiser thinks they have problems now...

[deadrock]

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