After Making Beer Ever Lighter, Anheuser Faces a New Palate

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 04/26/2006 | Sarah Ellison

[AnalogReigns]

Well there is one good Budweiser but it has nothing to do with Anheuser-Busch.

AMEN TO THAT!

But you forgot to give the name (due to AB's legal trademark) Budweiser Budvar is sold in America under: Czechvar

Not availble here on draft yet, but we can dream:

[AnalogReigns]

Sam & Bud are made by the same people in the same plants and the same equipment using thre same processes.

Last I checked, the Ithaca, NY plants (where most Sam Adams is made) are NOT owned by Anaheuser Busch, so your statement is wrong on the face.

Yes Sam Adams is made in large quantities...so is (relatively speaking) ALL beer. The sad thing is AB and other large breweries COULD make a high quality craft beer product if they wanted to...but they don't. Sam Adams on the other hand does make an excellent product--which isn't to some people's tastes, and that's fine....taste as taste is always subjective.

Does Sam's make anything as good as Dogfish Head 90 Minute, or Avery Czar? No. But there stuff doesn't cost 10 dollars a 6 pack either. Beer snobs who act as if Sam Adams is crap annoy me.

[Toby06]

I never said Sam was crap! Also, I am FAR from a beer snob. in fact, I was defending the other end of the spectrum.

I have had Dogfishead 90 min. a few times, but find it a little too hoppy, or "muddy" (smile, you-know-who!), for my tastes. I'd be just as happy with a Bud.

[Toby06]

American beer is no longer Bud, Miller, and Coors.

Miller is now South African beer. Sorta. :)

[Liberal Classic]

This is perfect if you're going to cryogenically freeze yourself to cheat death. When you wake up in the future after being thawed by robots, the first thing I'll want is a Bud Light.

[B-Chan]

By and large, mass-produced American beer is foamy, flavorless, and thin. It's more like beer-flavored soda pop than real beer. It is, in my opinion, swill.

[AnalogReigns]

I apologize--I guess that makes me the snob. Bud always gives me a headache...after just 1 or 2. And it's almost flavorless though! You should try Czechvar--a real pilsner. 90 minute is a beer snobs' beer, btw, hoppy yes, but wow is it smoooooth.

[B-Chan]

This beer (a pilsener) is sold in the US under the brand name of Czechvar. I drink two pints of it every Sunday night. It is absolutely delicious.

[B-Chan]

Dat's de way we rolls in MY hood, G.

[evets]

Glug glug glug...

...burp.

[evets]

..excuse me.

Glug glug glug...

[Liberty Valance]

[knews_hound]

Pinging the Homebrewers.

On or off the Homebrewers Ping list let me know.

knewshound

[Military family member]

Champagne Velvet!! The Beer with the Million Dollar Taste!

[knews_hound]

From my article;

Bud is “Beechwood Aged”, but do you know what that actually means? The “Beechwood Aging” aging consists of the brewer throwing in a hunk of wood in the bottom of the 30,000 gallon tank. Now I have never been a stickler for tradition but a hunk of wood?

This is in a nutshell, my problem with Bud.  The other "MacroBrews" use things like Rice, Corn, Conditioners, Additives and God knows what else.

REAL Beer contains only 4 ingrediants.  Water, Malt, Hops and Yeast.

Anything else has no place in my Beer.

And really, why would I want to drink something else when I can drink something made with LOVE.



Now THATS a BEER.

Cheers,

knewshound

Brew Your Own

[evets]

Yummy!

[Toby06]

tried this one?:

WAY hoppy for my tastes.

[B Knotts]

"I think you're seeing an increased consumer acceptance that bitter is a positive characteristic in beer," says Keith Lemke, vice president of the Siebel Institute.

That's only half the equation, if that much of it.

American light lagers have traditionally been fairly bitter for their body.

What I think Americans are finally realizing is that maltiness is good.

I'm not a hophead (although I can tolerate hoppy beers more than I used to). I like a good, malty brew, which is something that even today is somewhat hard to find in the U.S., unless you brew it yourself.

[evets]

I can't get it in TX, but would like to try it.

Here's the hoppiest beer I've had.
(Please mail me some Ruination. Thanks.)

[ContemptofCourt]

Interesting to read that BUD owns 50% of Modela (Corona) and 17% of TsingTao. I noticed the other day that Corona had gotten relatively expensive, and now I can understand why....