Posted on 05/10/2016 1:34:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
Anheuser-Busch InBev has filed for approval with the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to change its name to "America."
The limited-edition label will be on 12-ounce cans and bottles from May 23 through the end of election season in November to “to inspire drinkers to celebrate America and Budweiser's shared values of freedom and authenticity.”
The label change will include replacing "Budweiser" with "America" and adding phrases like "Land of the Free," "Home of the Brave" and "From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters this land was made for you and me." Other new cans and bottles will feature a view of the Statue of Liberty's torch.
"Budweiser has always strived to embody America in a bottle, and we're honored to salute this great nation where our beer has been passionately brewed for the past 140 years," said Ricardo Marques, vice president of Budweiser. "We are embarking on what should be the most patriotic summer that this generation has ever seen.”
That is really funny. I don't remember my last Bud. Other than it did taste like it was drunk once before.
How? By maintaining a beer gut? Is dry red wine somehow unpatriotic now?
Maybe his gravy deal on that was the small scale prototype for the Clinton Global Initiative.
I’ve had Budvar. It’s excellent.
“...Budweiser’s shared values of freedom and authenticity.”
Except stealing their name from a small, Czech brewery (i.e.Czechvar)
“Nothing like drinking a Belgian-owned beer to inspire good old-fashioned American patriotism!”
My thoughts exactly.
I used to hang out with Olympia Busch (the kid, not the one that built a company. In fact I think this was the grandson) in my misspent youth.
More accurately, we had the same circle of acquaintances.
He has about as much in common with normal Americans as Hillary Clinton.
“But people still drink (Budweiser). They lack your worldly educated palate. They probably work with their hands and sweat on the job. Barbarians! Not the kind of people that America needs, for sure.”
Yup, we got class on this here ranch! We drink Snake River Brewing beers cause my man’s drinking buddies like it and we like to shoot the empties when we’re done. I suppose we don’t always work with our hands. Sometimes we use a backhoe. Sweat isn’t an option even when it’s cold outside.
And we don’t own a BMW even if it’s built in the USA and we won’t drink beer that’s made by economic colonists from Belgium.
They would have to include a line Woodie Guthrie's socialist response to "God Bless America". The first verse that everybody knows is innocuous enough, but verse two is a direct rejection of the very concept of private property.
Of course, their beer is awful enough that I wouldn't be buying any regardless of what type of "patriotic" advertising campaign they might try.
Beaver Piss Beer, for real Canadians!!
Is “incontinent” the same as “in-country”?
Yeah, my German sucks. reheinsgebot was what i was going for.
CC
RE Belgian:
Eh. That’s ok. We will take any help, any ally we can, to aid in taking this country back from the leftards.
I’m not a Bud fan. But I’ll buy a couple cases just because they’re doing this.
The can with “America” on it... That Bud’s for Me.
No, it means the side effect of budweiser makes your most recent meal have an abrupt “out of body experience” It turns your colon into a japanese bullet train.
Cc
Make America GRAIN again
Yeah! So here's a song about America performed by a British Band: America
Me too - nasty ones. I think they put aspartame in it.
USA would or United States of America would, but “America” could mean the Americas, the USA, North America,South America etc. etc. that’s how Bud is getting away with it
Buds and Miller’s beers are tasteless. American craft-beers on the other hand are among the best in the world.
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