Yeah. The nearest in my opinion is Samuel Adams, and Koch's family comes from Germany. But what goes with Germany, Schneider Weisse, Schöfferhofer, Paulaner and even Löwenbräu are pretty good, at least in my opinion.
Half of young Americans have discovered cheap beer is gross and soulless. The other half has discovered alcohol does nothing good but ruin lives and families.
They would sell alot more beer if they weren't trying to charge $20 for a 12 pack of middle of the road beer. Alot of drinkers have woken up and are purchasing higher quality local craft brews at similar prices. Honestly, any brand that InBrev gets their hands on tends to suffer in quality as corporate is always cost cutting in pursuit of profit. Nowadays rice, corn, and even corn syrup have made their way into the brewing world as a way to increase volume and decrease the cost of inputs.
literally this. the bar that i work at has many local (or semi-local, about 100miles away) craft beers on tap. they are actually tasty, ABV tends to be 6-10%, and cost around 7 or 10 dollars for a pint. the distributor that sells the domestics like bud light, blue moon, michelob ultra, etc, literally has it in our distribution contract that we charge 5 dollars for a pint. unless some SUPER BASIC bachelor party comes in, we rarely sell the domestics (pabst blue ribbon is the outlier, we can charge 3 dollars for a pint and that goes really quick). i will not name any names, but one of our local brewers (the brewery is three or four blocks over from where i work) got a sweet deal to sell their beer at a local big chain grocery store. some of the employees come into the bar after their shifts and they have said that they literally can not keep up with the demand, mainly because it's so hard for them to reliably source the ingredients for some of their brews. the funny thing is, they aren't even an old brewery. they only sprung up in the last four or so years. everyone that works there is dedicated to the company and they are all so involved in the process of brewing that some employees might have a great idea and they get to put their name on the beer/seltzer that they created. BIG BEER is dead. and i am so happy.
@@davidmikeystars Drag Queens and the like scare the hell out of simple minded people, heck life would be pretty dull if everyone was the same, to each his own.
It’s great to see all the smaller breweries who care deeply about their craft out there winning against big beer. I have a few breweries local to me and it really is that much better than the pee in a can big beer sells.
In my country there are so many free house pubs that knock out the delightful local fare you can take it easy all day in the same spot it's easy on the stomach and easy on the head the next day. Mass produced German, Belgian and American "beer" takes 2 days to shake off produced to put idiots south of the river in 4 pints. Budweiser is shitp!ss.
I remember back when the craft beer revolution began here on the west coast and all these micro-breweries starting popping up everywhere all within a few years. Many failed, but many have succeeded. Even my small town of less than 8,000 people has two micro-breweries. Literally every town within a 30 minute drive all have at least 1 micro-brewery and they are all fun and have their own quirks.
Forchheim a Bavarian town of 35 000 has 24 breweries. You might call some of them craft breweries due to their tiny output but most have been going for centuries.
The issue here is that these beers made by Budweiser are inferior. These beers are made with cheap ingredients and over the past 50 or so years snuffed out micro-breweries. When one tastes a micro-brewed beer there is no coming back. imagine if the only hamburger you ate was the basic burger at Mcdonald's (not the Big Mac, but the one patty thing). Imagine that being the only burger you taste for decades. Imagine now tasting a steakhouse burger with the best ingredients. That's what craft beer is like. Once Micro-breweries started proliferating in the 2000's company's like Molson and Budweiser would lose in profit. Greed can only go so far. These big beer companies only have themselves to blame for their market decline, not the consumers who want a better beer.
It's a good point. But to take it a step further, the big breweries have been buying up the small breweries like made and many of them have just quietly gone by the wayside as a result. Or they grow them and dilute their quality.
Idk. I like craft brews just as much as the next guy. But those can get pricey. Also, sometimes I just want an unfussy beer. Budweiser and High Life are great when you don't feel like something complicated. That, and I like Budweiser and High Life anyway.
they missed a lot in this video. Younger people are less likely to drink or drink less than older people in general. If they drink they are more likely to drink white claws.
Budweiser and Beers like it are TERRIBLE but Sam Adams never got Beer right until the stole the Pete's Wicked "Summer" Recipe. Taste never matters to people wanting to belong
So telling how this DISHONEST video INTENTIONALLY left out one of the MAJOR REASONS why BUD is NO LONGER a favorite beer, especially in the US, their insistence on trying to be the beer with the "W😢OKEST" FOLKESTS & their abysmal handling of a MARKETING DISGRACE. Hurt their own bottom line & well as all their distributors, especially the smaller ones. INBEV deserves to go bankrupt. Good Riddance!!
Those beers are relics from a time when using all barley malt wasn’t feasible, so corn and rice were used. They don’t impart a lot of flavor to a beer, and the American public got used to that. But now that there are so many craft breweries making excellent beer, we are seeing people (re)discover what “real beer” is like, and they’re not going back!
Technically the corn and more specifically the rice were used to produce Budweiser because quality barley malt was not available in the U.S. and the barley that was used made the beer cloudy. The corn and rice was used to clarify the beer to make it look more like the beers in Germany. In the long run it helped the company because adjunct grains are much cheaper.
@@dustmybroom288 if you want sweeter beer, get the really dark brown, almost black ones. They are made with deeply roasted barely that develop a sweet caramelized flavor. If you want sweeter, there are craft beers infused with honey of fruit. Beer gets bitter from the hops used, most prominent in IPA, and the double IPA.
Budweiser is like McDonalds, it's blandness makes it generic in a difficult to love, but also difficult to hate way. I haven't visited McDonalds in decades.
After trying dozens of craft beers from a local liquor store/deli, I began crafting my own from recipes and recipe kits available online. There is no beer you cannot recreate similarly at home. And the satisfaction you get from your friends and relatives eagerly awaiting your next brew is priceless.
Agreed Gary. I own a homebrew store here in Pa. I had an ROTC professor stop in one day, interested in brewing. He had spent 20 years in the air force and lived 1/2 block from Bitburger Brewery. He wanted to know if he couylkd brew that. I had a book here with the recipe. Helearned to brew and tinkered with the recipe and he now brews a very close match. It's a lot of fun and then you get to drink it. Cheers!
What this video doesn't explain for Americans is that in the US ABIBEV does not own the right to Corona and Modelo, two brands that have been growing, while they do own Corona and Modelo around the world, not the case in the US due to that merger that made them ABIBEV, the US justice department made them sell those rights due to antitrust requirements and a company called Constellation Brands own the US rights for those two brands which are doing well here in the US.
@@CarlosRivera-cg4cs it is still Mexican, they are still brewing in Mexico, they wouldn't be able to command premium price if they were brewing it in the US. They are importing it, Constellation bought some of the Mexican breweries and built new breweries there as well.
I'm a Publix liquor manager at Lilburn, Georgia and I was talking to our Coors vendor and he said that he worked 12 hours yesterday because he couldn't stock the shelves fast enough from people buying his companies beer like crazy at all the stores he stocks for. Meanwhile most of the AB products have barely moved on our shelves, I feel really bad for the AB vendors because they're nice guys who don't deserve what their company has done to them but I am glad that people are pushing back against this agenda being shoved down our throats everywhere we turn.
The problem isnt just "woke " beer. Its corporate-multinational grocery store beer owned by global investors, who only care about shareholders and corporate profits, not beer. Dylan Mulvany just proved it
Or maybe it’s because people tire of cheap quality beer, especially after trying premium/craft. In my own case, I prefer to drink less but spend on higher quality and newer flavours.
So i'm not the only one who goes "beer shopping" and spending waaaay too much time at the craft cooler oogling all the different offerings...after just popping in to grab a few of my"favourite"..."OoO THIS is new! Ooooo! this one too!, Oh! cool graphics too!
People have gotten used to over priced terrible craft beer. Beer that hasn’t had a tested recipe and sells out before the brewery notices nobody liked it. It’s a shame we might loose these great cheap beers.
@@rootvalley2 Whomever it was that sold the public on idea that "over-hopped" equated to "well-made, gourmet, high-end, and/or nuanced" should be dragged in the street and beaten until they admit they couldn't make a drinkable lager or pilsner.
One of the best, tastiest beers I ever drank was a Budweiser. However, I was in the Czech Republic at the time, and their Budweiser has nothing in common with the American version other than the name. The Czech brewery that makes the original Budweiser was established in the 1300’s, and they sold the rights to use the Budweiser name to Adolphus Busch (ca 1870’s). Busch simply liked the name and thought it would give his inferior product cache. The only proviso was that Busch wouldn’t sell his product in Europe and the original Budweiser would no longer be sold in America, which it previously had been since the 1870’s. If you can find it, the original Budweiser is available in the US under the name Czechvar.
It’s no longer an American beer. When they did the hostile take over of Anheuser-Busch, Americans lost pride in their beer company. Microbrewery’s are making a much higher quality beer and are focused on being proudly owned in America and we’re loyal to our country and beer.
“It’s no longer an American beer” “Americans lost pride in their beer company. No. No and no. I’ve heard some dumb things this year but this is at the very top. Dodge is owned by an Italian holding company. Is Dodge an Italian car? Manchester United is owned by an American. Is Manchester United an American club? Bud and Bud Light are American beers.
With inflation running at a four-decade high, a Recession is now the ‘most likely outcome for the economy. How can I grow my portfolio to outpace inflation and maintain a successful long-term strategy? I have been reading of investors making about $250k profit in this current crashing market, and I need ideas on how to achieve similar profits.
I don’t love cheap watery beers but I’m not fond of craft beers either- they seem to be putting as much stuff in them ingredient wise as they can - I don’t like them
I gave up on Bud over 25 years ago, the only beer that gave me a headache and made me feel sick while I was drinking it, that's supposed to happen the day after 😁
Back in the day in College, my roomies and I were big fans of beer... we sent a sample of Budweiser to the chemistry lab to be analyzed. The results confirmed that our horse had diabetes.
I started drinking beer as a teenager and I figured out pretty quickly about beer quality. I came to refer to "Bud" as headache beer. The flavor is so so but later on you feel like you were poisoned. I switched to Corona when it got cheap enough.
There's very little difference between all the cheap beers, mainly water. You're experiencing the placebo effect. On a seperate note it still blows my mind how many idiots drink wheat in a can when seltzer is available.
I worked in R&D for Anheuser-Busch. It was fun but the upper level people are so out of touch. They're so obsessed with low sugar/low carb for all new brands and tbh nobody cares. Bud Light Next (0 carb beer) took 10 years of development and hundreds of millions of dollars but it was on discount racks within a month of being released bc it just isn't good
A chain bar/restaurant called Old Chicago always had about 30 beers on tap and you could order about twice the variety in bottles or cans. It was always fun to go and try a new beer... especially seasonal beers like Oktoberfest.
i tried over 15 beer types in belgium of their 80 yummy but best i ever had was shutzengarten in switzerland was 16% alc YUMMY too. i tried 100's of beer types on 3 continents Duvel in belgium is one i remember because of the name, Grolsch in holland shutzengarten in switzerland YUM tsing tsao chinese and the one in taiwan had particles floating in it was sketchy but ok, fosters heiniken stella atois etc etc.. BUD was one of the grossest tasting i ever tried.
My favorite beer of all time is a brand called Grimbergan, made in Belgium, I had when I was in France. It was a rich, but easy drinking blonde ale and really hit the spot on those 40C hot days
I lost the taste for beer about 10 years ago. Funny how I don’t miss it. Budweiser regular was my favorite, but I only drank beer on weekends when I didn’t have to go to work. One has to have a plan so that the drinking doesn’t control you, but you can control it. Not easy, but it can be done!
I wish that everyone had my "problem". A six pack can last me months, liquor and wine the same. "Craft beer spoils" you say? Yup! My only drinking "problem" and I'll take it!
Bwahaha you never drank beer then. Budweiser is an American light lager and in the description is supposed to be almost flavorless. Some just don't access to IPAs, Stouts, Porters, Sours, real Lagers, etc..
@@seankelly378 A great recipe for controlling people from a corporate perspective is to make them miserable, then give them extra money. They will go out and spend it on self-medication, in many forms.
50 years ago in Australia the market was dominated by 2 producers. In the modern era, the local "craft beers" have gained favor. There is no longer an "us and them" gig. Now we have a dozen to choose from.
It's the opposite in the UK. There has always been lots of small local beer producers, especially in real ale and cider, but nowadays the larger generic brands are most popular.
I love trying new beers. I checked AB InBev's beers and realized I haven't bought them in a while. Their beers, especially lite beers, are too watered down (weak taste) with extra carbonization for compensation (but feels like little knives stabbing my tongue).
@@curtzeek8818 We had a popular brewer in Virginia Devil's Backbone, had a big hit with their Vienna Lager. Bought out by ABInBev. That was a big deal. So the question is does their VL stay exactly the same? I overheard once someone saying "the first thing they cut is the hops" Haven't had one in a while, loved it at first, not so much more recently but that could be my own tastes moving around.
Sounds like things have come full circle. Pre-WW1, beer was a city drink, and perishable, so people mostly drank local brews. Then after prohibition and nationwide television advertising, a small number of brands dominated the markets, crowding out what was left of most smaller local brewers. Then the major beers cut corners on ingredients in a race to the bottom to win some shareholder passing contest. Meanwhile craft and micro brews popped up. Suddenly Bud, Miller, and Coors were no longer such appetizing options. So now we're back to where no one brand dominates the market. Which is fine. Beer is one of those potables that a lot of people like, but there's no real consensus on any singular favorite style or flavor.
The beer companies were forced to use cheaper ingredients at the time because of the World War. Barley was being used for the war effort and wasn't readily available for beer making. The beer companies never switched back. It wasn't done for money, but it was kept because of money.
@@curtzeek8818 oh. I was actually talking a few decades later, when Schlitz cheaped out. And around the time when Miller brewed Lowenbrau, but allegedly cut the mash with corn grits, against their agreement with the Bavarian brewer. And then the light beer trend may not have been auspiciously to save brewers money for beer they could charge the same amount for, but no doubt they didn’t mind the trend.
@@75aces97 I agree. Miller drove Lowenbrau into the groud. That is why they pulled the brewing back to Munich. After they pulled it back, their advertising stated that the beer was now " Brewed in Munich". Coors lt and Miller lt are priced high to pay for all their advertising.
@@curtzeek8818 it was funny, but growing up, Lowenbrau was one of those beers that got advertised a lot, but I didn't know anybody who liked it. By the time I was an adult it was a punchline of a beer. Then when I went to Munich I had a beer called the same name, not knowing whether it was the same thing. Logo looked the same, but it tasted okay, so nothing like what I remembered of the American version. Did Lowenbrau pull out elsewhere in the world? Back in the 1970s and 80s, they formed out their name to various countries that made and sold with their label. Obviously they pulled the plug with Miller, but I wonder if other foreign brewers pulled similar shenanigans.
I talked about this with coworkers not but a few hours ago. Beer and wine are increasing in price, whiskey isn't going up at the same rate, perhaps the time required to produce is going to affect the price of whiskey in 5 years but it doesn't explain other quicker to consumer spirits like vodka and gin staying relatively low compared to beer and wine price hikes.
Bingo, as a category V functioning alcoholic I can say that price has an enormous amount to do with it. A few years ago Budweiser was my go-to beer (to you beer connessuers out there, please understand it was just a palate cleanser and an alcohol delivery system to me lol) because the price was good for the quality. Now a 24 oz can of Budweiser or Bud Light costs more than a damn Four Loko, in fact Four Lokos are the one beverage that cost *less* than they did a couple years ago! Crazy stuff. So now when I really wanna drink, I'll just get a pint of Evan Williams as it gets me drunker, quicker, for way less money than a 12 pack of Budweiser. I can't speak for the other, more complex reasons that Budweiser is losing business, but from the perspective of a formerly-loyal customer, the price is now kinda outrageous.
As a Salesman for an AB distributor I can tell you for a fact it’s true. Too many different variety of brews to choose from, also the new RTD’s Vodka based seltzers is growing but also price increase every year has caused the consumer to hold back on buying … honestly is just the way the world is moving towards something else
As a person who has worked at local breweries open breweries and a home brewer I'm always encouraging people to try local beer. The taste is better, you know what is in the ingredients and quite a few breweries grow their own hops and barely. Myth is that local beer is too heavy and too strong. I've made plenty of ales with lower than 5% lower than 4%. Very easy to drink approachable ales and lagers.
there are at least twenty very good breweries within a thirty-minute drive of my house, if you live in any major city in the United States your choice of high-quality, fresh, local beer is greater than ever.
younger people are less likely to drink in general nowadays. Alcohol sucks and in NA there is a much cheaper, widely available and better option than alcohol.
A native St. Louisen here. I was young when InBev bought AB. I remember the amount of layoffs affecting many families, it appeared to be very consequential. InBev not only destroyed the beer, they also eradicated the AB culture. I have in-laws who are made their careers at AB, the stories they have told me seem like the culture was decent, good perks for the 20th century. Now I know people who have sales accounts with AB and they have said it's awful. The culture and families AB helped here in St. Louis are gone and so is my respect. I say that still being a big Michelob Ultra fan, they still got me.
I agree it is somewhat similar here why I live, close to Williamsburg, Virginia. AB was a key part of the community, our amusement park is Busch Gardens, because the brewery is right across the street. Before the merger, the horses were called the Budweirser Clydesdales & you could tour the brewery as a part of the park. AB even built a great golf course here that was on a course on the PGA & LPGA tour. It's hard to sell that all-American brand if the brand is . . .Belgian
Headache in a bottle. I am not from the U.S and always thought our 5 sec fermented beer was bad, then i had your Bud and it's variants. Craft beer has been around in my country for 35 odd years. When it was like wine makers, we just had beer makers. Then you go to Germany and at the dawn of time every little village has its own been maker...heaven. Before it was cool and attracted weird people.
I stopped drinking Budweiser 4 years ago when i went to Dallas was at a Mexican rodeo. they were drinking michelob ultra and corona other stuff, i was the only one drinking budweiser. after that tried out other beers and never went back.
Before Budweiser was an Anheuser-Busch trademarked brand the word meant any beer brewed like beer was brewed in the city of Budweis, Bohemia. Many breweries made budweiser beers. I have a Miller Brewing Budweiser bottle in my collection. I also have an E Anhueser bottle from before his son-in-law, Adolphus Busch, joined the company.
Budweiser was copied from a beer over there, and I don't mean a beer with rice or corn. Back then Bud was brewed from barley. The world war forced brewers to look for other fermentables and that is when rice and corn became widely used.
The rise of Craft and Spanish Beers are to thank for this. Literally. I never knew how bad Bud products were until I started tasting different beers that weren’t “American”.
I'm a long-time craft beer drinker. I drank my first craft beers in the mid-90s. So, the 2000s-2010s explosion of the industry has been wonderful to me. As our kids (gen-z) grew older and entered high school, I would explain IPAs vs porters vs Belgians, and so forth. I figured when they got to college they would be on top of the trends. Well, turns out my son catches hell from his friends for being an "IPA bro" while they all drink whiteclaw or whatever. Gen-z man, so weird. lol
@@thepatriarchy819 Also 24, but I love all types of beer. Part of the fun! I love how trader joe's sells single without upcharge and every night I get to open one wondering what it will taste like.
@@noob.168 don't get me wrong I love trying new beers but if I show up to a bar or I'm sitting at home with friends I'm grabbing a porter 75% of the time.
Budweiser is a well marketed brand and it's everywhere so it's accessible to more buyers. But, when you tried other beers and they have better taste, and they're also becoming more accessible, you're going with them.
The best beer bush ever made was the signature copper lager from a few years ago. It was the cheapest brew on the market until it was discontinued, but fans have been hoping it would be reintroduced as a premium, higher priced beer.
One of the main things that upset me after the InBev purchase was that they started charging to tour the main brewery and hq here in the Lou. I am not even a beer drinker but it is still very cool and worth the couple bucks it cost now, make sure to check it out while in StL! :]
How much do they charge? When I lived there it was free, you got to see some horses, and you got free beer. I thought man if I were I hobo, I would would hit this up all day.
@@alanprather8399 It's only like $5 for kids and $10 for adults or something. So like I said definitely worth it; I just feel like Budweiser wouldn't have started charging for the tour if they hadn't been bought out. (Yes you still get a free drink too :P)
I am 22 and for the first time, this opened my eyes as far as how deep AB is down the rabbit hole. It’s sad to see that now they are a former shell of themselves as they are trying to create new things instead of just trying to perfect the one thing they are good at. I buy Sam Adams which I do not think they are owned by the big 3 and love their beers.
They are owned by Boston beer, another massive corp 🥴 actually one of the bigger seltzer plsyers. But yes, great to go out and support the little guys!
Bud Light was my favorite ever since I started but when AB was sold they went with cheaper ingredients, taking shortcuts to save a penny, and ruined the beer.
I'm Belgian, for a lot of us AB Inbev is synonymous with low quality and bad taste. They've taken over a few small Belgian breweries over the years and the quality of all those beers digressed. Brands like Bud, don't sell here, those are seen like tasteless brands for drunks.
@@laughingvampire7555 Prohibition hurt the breweries in USA. After it was repealed there were several local breweries that reopened. It wasn't until the late 1960's that larger corporations like AB began buying out the local/regional brands. I am sure that some of those regional brands were as bad as Bud is now (fyi: the Bud formula has been changed over the years to increase profits and allow for a longer shelf-life) That said, let's not even talk about those old-style 3.2% brands of beer!
I refuse to drink cheap beer or light beer. It makes me feel sick and tastes awful. Craft IPA’s, stouts, and ambers are all always done so beautifully and have so much flavor. A lot of people on my generation (gen Z) agree.
I literally can look out my window and see a micro brewery. It's called Mash Craft and they are just fabulous brewers. They only sell their own beers in their places. It's fun to sit at the bar and look through the glass walls at the guys brewing the next batch. They do about a dozen or so flavors. The red stout is my fave, but they have odd combinations that surprise me. Coffee infused beer, orange flavored, etc. I will get a flight of 4 small glasses to try out some different brews once in a while. I haven't had a Budweiser in years.
My dad and father in-law still love Coors Light and Bud Light respectively, so I keep them at my house but almost never drink them myself. I love going to the package store and trying different local craft beers.
Once bud sold to someone outside of the US I decided to start buying local wheat beers and some pilsners along with some premium German beers but not often
I never understood how the King of Beer was consumed by fans who confessed it gave them headaches. Regarding its taste profile, there's nothing there to distinguish it among similar-tasting beers. No matter how many Clydesdale horse commercials the company churned out, it doesn't compensate for the beer's taste.
To be fair to the drinkers of the beverage; most of them, during Bud's reign, had not tasted other types of beers, ales. Until the past decade or so, the imported beers were very expensive and the craft beers were sort-of an upper-middle class sort of thing; until they got more popular.
I recently got to taste Budweiser today at Woodranch. I gotta say, it tastes pretty good. Not too special, but down-to-earth almost like extra yeast flavor, rice wine, and sweet malt together. Been wanting to try it since 2018 and out of 2000s and 2010s nostalgia and longing to try American Beers.
I tried Budweiser a few years back, tasted even flatter than the cheapest domestic beer in my country, something i never though possible. I was like "is this seriously what americans are drinking?"
People from small countries all think this way. Americans drink X, or Americans eat Y. It’s too large of a country to stereotype. There are almost 10,000 commercial breweries in the US. Don’t drink trash like Bud or eat garbage like McDonald’s and generalize that to 330 million people spread over an area as large and more diverse than Europe. It makes you sound dumb.
I really don't know who drinks it. We used to drink a lot of Schlafly's when I lived in Missouri, and I moved east a bit and its more craft beers and Yuengling. Yuengling is a solid, easily my favorite "big beer" brand.
I think, at least for the people I've talked to, this is also due to the increase attention paid to health and calories, especially in alcoholic beverages. Beer is probably the worst offender here so if you're going for the calories, might as well spend a few extra dollars to get a craft beer that has better and more complex flavor.
I get that but I had a fresh bottle in Missouri where it was locally made and it did not have those offensive cheap beer tastes so it was fine. A lot of those cheap beers have to stay fresh or it will taste offensive
kinda sucks when your core customer base starts either dying off or (like my own father) finds out it's been causing GI issues for years... He switched beer brands and man, what a difference!!!
I didn’t develop a taste for beer until almost 40. And I have never drank Coors or Anheuser Busch beers. I have always preferred darker beers, such as Guinness or micro brewery beers.
Corona Extra and Modelo Especial are both owned by Constellation Brands, which has supported a number of LGBTQ+ events. The brand partnered with Stonewall Sports, which promotes LGBTQ+ participation, and in 2020 scored a top 100 score on the 2020 Corporate Equality Index for LGBTQ equality.
@@mrtree1368 Most people don't even realize it but they even have "Rice" on the front of the can. Budweiser single-handedly boosted the global demand for rice production. Rice might make good wine/sake but it tastes like @ss when your brew it. It's impressive how much of it they still sell.
The fact that’s balance sheets are all over this video says it all. Nobody’s going to care to do a good job when all their company cares about is money. I think it’s better to put out a better product and make less money.
As a German i have to say, there is a middleground between "craft" beers and the trashy american "normal" beers. Excellent affordable beers in a large variety, of which you can drink large amounts without dying of hop poisoning, thats it.
Couldn't agree more. Even among the million different IPAs they make in America now we still haven't mastered a respectable lager or pilsner. Alcohol content is also getting too high.It's like the idiots competing to make the hottest hot sauce. If I want whiskey I will drink whiskey. Rant over.
Prohibition destroyed American brewing standards for decades after it was revoked. People got so used to watery flavorless pisswater during Prohibition that AB and other big American Brewers had no reason to ever improve their product.
@@baronvonjo1929 yes I tried many. Didn't like them very much. It's also not xenophobic to not like American beer. Please look up what that term even means.
@@baronvonjo1929 You must American. How is it xenophobic to say i don't like American beer. I like European beer. It's a matter of beer, not some political or social matter
@stygian I think you mean an American "style" beer. Realize that several American "made" beers import ingredients from Europe. So you may be drinking a Belgian styled beer made in the USA.
Busch light is the king of beers in the corn 🌽 belt!!! Nectar of the Cobs.....plus the cans they did this summer with John Deere was just plain awesome!!!
A young man had just completed a course of study and apprenticeship to become a master brewer, and he wanted to make money quickly. He decided to make a clone of one of the best selling beers in the U.S., Budweiser, so he sent a sample of Bud to a lab for analysis and waited anxiously for a response from the lab which would tell him all he needed to know in order to create a clone. Finally, one day, the letter arrived from the lab and he opened it with great anticipation. The letter said this: "YOUR HORSE HAS DIABETES!"
The beers under the Anheuser Bush label, Budweiser, Kona Brewing Company, Michelob Ultra, Stella Artois, Estrella Jalisco, Busch Beer, Landshark, Presidente, HoeGaarden, Natural Light, Shock Top. If you're worried about sinking an American Company Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, commonly known as AB InBev, [2][3] is a Belgian multinational drink and brewing company based in Leuven, Belgium.
They might still be the "most popular beer" in America, but everyone under 40 (or anyone that pays attention even above that age) hates ABInBev. Although they are still seeing profit it's only a matter of time before they go away from the US market entirely.
Ya I've added them to the list of I'll do everything in my power to not give anything they own a dollar. My local home brew store was bought by them and I've switched to online ordering from other vendors. It's petty, sure.
@@sylkelster you’re right some tradesman drink yuppie craft beers, just gets expensive if your drinking a case a night of craft beer. It seems these days craft beers are more popular with the millennial tradesman, same kids that keep their hands soft with moisturizers, wear flavored lip balm and stand around complaining about work.
It's not cheap beer any more though, they said in the video that price hikes on beer is largely being driven by Anheuser Busch. You can't buy a six pack any more for less than $10. I remember when I used to buy some of the best beer in the world (imported from Germany) for $8 for a sixer. I can't buy a six pack of Bud Light for that price.
@@tedhodge4830 Not sure where YOU live, but I can get a **30** pack of Hamms for under 17$.....that's 3.40 a 6 pack. And plenty of better quality beers at 6 or 7$ a 6. You live in SF? LA?
@@dustmybroom288 Stella is plain I'll give you that much. In it's country they make a second beer for the younger generation. Budweiser isn't so bad, I don't usually mind drinking it. Unless my stomach might mind, then I'll play it safe with a stella.
The beer -- Budweiser is produced using barley malt, rice, water, hops and yeast. The brewing happens in seven steps: milling, mashing, straining, brew kettle, primary fermentation, beechwood lagering and finishing.[46] It is lagered with beechwood chips in the aging vessel. While beechwood chips are used in the maturation tank, there is little to no flavor contribution from the wood, mainly because they are boiled in sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) for seven hours for the very purpose of removing any flavor from the wood.[47] The maturation tanks that Anheuser-Busch uses are horizontal, causing flocculation of yeast to occur much more quickly. Anheuser-Busch refers to this process as a secondary fermentation, with the idea being that the chips give the yeast more surface area to rest on. This is combined with a krausening procedure that re-introduces wort into the chip tank, reactivating the fermentation process. Placing beechwood chips at the bottom of the tank keeps the yeast in suspension longer, giving it more time to reabsorb and process green beer flavors such as acetaldehyde and diacetyl that Anheuser-Busch believes are off-flavors which detract from overall drinkability. Budweiser and Bud Light are sometimes advertised as vegan beers, in that their ingredients and conditioning do not use animal by-products. Some people object to the inclusion of genetically engineered rice[48] and animal products used in the brewing process. In July 2006, Anheuser-Busch brewed a version of Budweiser with organic rice for sale in Mexico. It has yet to extend this practice to any other countries.
Americans are also becoming carb conscious. So as keto and other similar diets push people off of beer. That likely has impacted the consumption of beer.
Things that are not overtly observed here: 1.) Image: Beers like Budweiser and Bud Light are usually not seen as highmark beverages, even the ones mentioned such as Stella Artois and Michelob Ultra are not typically seen as "premium" beers. They are typically just beers used for big ol' cocktails, beer pong, or large parties where the patrons do not want to spend too much. Personally I only ever buy beers like that when it's the end of the month and the bills are paid in full...even then I will go off and sometimes buy liquor instead. Takes like twelve Bud Lights to make me feel anything. 2.) Community: As some of the comments before me have brilliantly stated, it is about American PRIDE! Alot of the bigger breweries have sold themselves off and it rubs people the wrong way. Meanwhile craft breweries will work within their communities, and be adjacent to them too. I have no feelings of intimacy with a huge building in St. Louis owned by some European firm that follows fads and cuts jobs. I do with breweries that are very close to home (local one is less than a quarter mile away), that know your name, make great brews, hold charity events, and get food trucks on the weekend! Even ones not close to home, are unique businesses that you can find a great craftsmanship; some are better with stouts, others with sours, IPAS, non-alcoholic, etc. Budweiser products taste all the same, bland corporate nonsense. Customers are speaking on what they want. Sure I will drink a Miller Lite or Modelo at sports stadiums; but outside of that? Craft beer, Mead, Wine, or some nice Bourbon.
Agree on #2, but they aren't European. It gets worse.. They are Brazilians. The Same kind that is selling you cheap beef by charring the Amazon Forest to stumps for grazing. You can tell by their Company Man yack. Europeans at least would have a decency to put a good product out there. Stick with your choice of beers.
For those of you boycotting, Anheuser Busch owns the following brands: Budweiser Busch Michellob Stella Becks Natty light Rolling Rock Shock Top Leffe Goose Island Modelo 10 Barrel Brewing
