[B Knotts]

They are losing market share, because their product is lousy, and it's no longer American-owned. So, their idea is to simply threaten the resellers.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I worked with a guy whose Scottish cousin bragged about drinking “imported Budweiser.”

[Manic_Episode]

I tried Shock Top a few weeks ago and hated it. It reminded me of bud. I did not know it was A/B.

My Dad was a bud guy for 20 years til I told him they sponsered the gay Olympics and he was drinking gay beer. He fired off a letter to them and never drank another bud.

[knews_hound]

Pinging the Homebrewers for scathing comments.



On or off the Homebrewers Ping List, let me know.

Cheers,

knewshound

Homebrewing 1A (Homebrewing for beginners)

[Lazlo in PA]

Yeah. I'm sure that distributors are going to go with InBev over the others so they can load up on these winners.

The public is just "Clamoring" for Clamato in their already lousy Budweiser.

[Utah Binger]

They are losing market share because I stopped drinking beer fourteen years ago when we moved to Utah.

VODKA works faster. Besides Utah beer is 3.2%; carbonated yellow water.

[editor-surveyor]

Bud has always been a “High School” beer.

Green goo.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

AB doesn't really have to intimidate the retailers into keeping competition at bay.

All they have to do is come up with lots and lots of varieties of beer, and depend on the retailers to be cheap and let the distributors stock the shelves for them.

That way most (if not all) of the shelf space goes to AB products.

This is what Nabisco does with its chips and cookies. This is what the soda companies do with a plethora of almost indistiguishable varieties of cola, etc.

If people want true variety then they need to demand that retailers continue to stock the products they want and not leave those decisions up to the distributors with the greatest load of crap to push.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Sorry guys, in this house it’ll be PBR and The Beast for the duration of the Obama Economy.

[ßuddaßudd]

Heineken

[redgolum]

Can’t remember when I last had a Busch brand of beer. Think it was around 1998.

[SaraJohnson]

The natural law of the free market does not apply in fascism. We now have fascism and this corporation is going to give it a test drive. The intimidation market... It is buddies with the labor unions’ worker intimidation market.

mmmm mmmm mmmm, Barack Hussien Obama, mmm mmm mmm

Don't mean to leave the Rinos out of the fascist equation.

[CharacterCounts]

At the same time, Bud has urged 500 wholesalers to distribute fewer rival beers, warning that it will act against those who don't.

Sounds like an antitrust lawsuit in the making.

[ATLDiver]

AnBush before InBev ‘leaned’ on distributors for years to keep craft brews out of package stores and customer’s hands. Go watch “Beer Wars” on Netflix for a view into how the big 3 (documentary made before InBev’s purchase,) play.

[erod]

Ladies and gentlemen: I present to you the true king of beers!

[Mad Dawgg]

"but shipments have fallen for three straight years, thanks to the growing popularity of small, independent craft brewers."

Translation: America no longer settles for Warm Monkey piss now that there are companies bottling some decent beers here in America.

[mowowie]

I spent a week up in Vermont a few summers ago and discovered Long Trail ale.
Brewed in Vermont it’s on tap at just about any watering hole in the states of VT and NH.

It’s now become my favorite beer for the momment.
I’m really liking the Long Trail Double Bag brew, got twice the alcohol. :)

http://www.longtrail.com/home.html

[Kevin C]

Drink a Yuengling and cheese off the union bosses:

http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/07149/789158-28.stm

[central_va]

I am ashamed to say that I drank a regular bud in a can for the first time in about 20 years and I liked it. It is pretty good beer all in all.

[count-your-change]

“Bud...It’s not as bad as it tastes”

[HamiltonJay]

When the guy who invented the main beer, called it swill and would not drink it, you know all you need to know about BUD...

It’s crap made for folks who don’t know any better.

I’m not a beer snob in the least, in fact I rarely drink beer at all, but can’t say I’ve ever tasted anything that was from Anheiser Busch that I would order a second of. Drank it when its what the host was offering, but that’s it.