Posted on 03/29/2012 9:43:21 AM PDT by B Knotts
(NEWSER) – Anheuser-Busch InBev is desperate to turn its sales around. Sure, it's still the biggest beer company in the US, but shipments have fallen for three straight years, thanks to the growing popularity of small, independent craft brewers. But this year Budweiser's got a plan, president of North American operations Luiz Edmond tells the Wall Street Journal: It's going to produce more beers, while leaning on distributors not to carry the competition. Anheuser will introduce 19 new products this year, its biggest rollout since the InBev merger.
Some will aim to compete in the craft market, like additions to its Shock Top line, or boast higher alcohol content, like the 6% Bud Light Platinum, which Edmond calls a "game changer." Still others, like Bud Light Lime-a-Rita, will be malt beverages bearing little resemblance to beer. At the same time, Bud has urged 500 wholesalers to distribute fewer rival beers, warning that it will act against those who don't. An unapologetic Edmond says wholesalers must pick sides, and show "loyalty" to InBev.
My favorite beer is St. Pauli Girl, my wife looks like the girl on the label, at least she did 40 years ago.
Do women really like that bathwater? In my part of the world, working Joe men seem to be the drinkers.
the bar i work in has 20 beers on draft- 1/2 are MI crafts- bud light the only ab/inbev, and is one of my worst sellers. no one wants the swill.
we even went almost a year without it on draft, it didn’t impact sales at all.
Try some beer with real flavor. Bud Lite is like the proverbial sex in a canoe.
Budweiser tastes like it has sugar added. It’s nasty.
I’ve had the Shock Top Wheat on tap a number of times and it’s pretty good. Although this is the first time I’m figuring out it’s an AB brand so I’ll see if it taints my perception in the future.
I can drink a lot of beer but that platinum is some potent stuff.
You do know that Budweiser (U.S.) sued Budweiser (Czech-Pilsen) for trademark infringement, and lost. They then went to the Czech government and threatened to stop purchasing hops from the country unless the tiny brewery in Pilsen changed their product name. Under pressure from their own government, Budweiser Budvar was renamed simply Budvar.
InBev Budweiser is a loathsome bunch of charlatans, marketing a weak and piddly beer-like substance. I wish them all the calamity and doom the fates have to offer for their continual affronts to the lovers of fine beer the world over.
Rheinheitsgebot, baby. It’s not just a good idea, it’s the law!
One of my friends from Seattle was in a restaurant here in central Kentucky and asked the waitress what beer they had. The lady said “Bud and Killian’s red”. My friend said, “Well, that’s a no brainer”. The waitress said, “Ok, two Buds”.
My friend said, “No. Two Killians.”
The selection here in Kentucky can be somewhat limited, but there is some amazing stuff here.
Perhaps she would look like that again after 40 beers.
True, at least to an extent. The first "light" beer was Gablinger's Diet Beer. Miller bought them out, and changed the name to Lite Beer from Miller. Then they brought in ex-NFL players to convince men that Miller Lite was a manly, macho brew (which is absurd). Another target of light beers is kids. It's the bland flavor that attracts them, not concern about their waistlines.
I worked with a guy whose Scottish cousin bragged about drinking “imported Budweiser.”
I’m sure she looks the same if you look through the bottom of those bottles.
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.
That's my position. When I have a beer, I want a good beer. There are a lot of micro brews in my area and I have friends that brew. The last Bud I had was late night scavenged from someones fridge and I didn't finish it.
People no longer settle for what the large brewers produce because they don't have to settle.
We call it "Sex in a Canoe"
F***ing near water.
The public is just "Clamoring" for Clamato in their already lousy Budweiser.
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