something's rotten in the state of beer. . .

originally posted by Oliver McCrum:
originally posted by robert ames:
originally posted by georg lauer:
If anybody was discussing here any wine on a similar level to Beck's (Bremen or St Louis) he would be buried under an avalanche of ridicule. That stuff always was boooooring, even when just compared to the other major German breweries. It is our answer to Bud light.
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georg--your point is well made.

beer and wine meet vastly different needs for me, thus i have vastly different expectations and requirements for the two beverages.

(mind you i'm not sayng that there are no profound beers. it's just that i don't drink say, duvel, samuel smith nut brown, or [insert your favourite beer here] to meet an immediate thirst.)

and the st. louis beck's tastes nothing like the bremen beck's. it's as though the folks in st. louis felt no compunction to replicate it or were unaware that there would be that expectation.
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I think the folks in St. Louis want to sell lots of beer. I would look elsewhere for compunction.
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Budweiser sold out too. There's a Business Week article: "The Plot to Destroy America's Beer." that covers the owner of Budweiser and beck's, AB InBev.
Blander beer by design to allow higher profit margins.
 
originally posted by Tom Glasgow:
Budweiser sold out too. There's a Business Week article: "The Plot to Destroy America's Beer." that covers the owner of Budweiser and beck's, AB InBev.
Blander beer by design to allow higher profit margins.
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The idea that Budweiser could get any blander is an interesting one to me. InBev also owns Stella Artois, no? While nothing to get worked up about, it certainly seems to me to be a cut above the so-called "King of Beers"

Mark Lipton

P.s. having a Czech Budweiser is quite the jarring experience for most Americans.
 
Mark,

Having a Heineken in Paris was jarring for me; it was pretty good, with a ham sandwich. I think brewing different beers for different markets is normal for the big companies, as it is in Champagne...Of course they can't actually make Veuve Clicquot in the US...
 
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Tom Glasgow:
Budweiser sold out too. There's a Business Week article: "The Plot to Destroy America's Beer." that covers the owner of Budweiser and beck's, AB InBev.
Blander beer by design to allow higher profit margins.
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The idea that Budweiser could get any blander is an interesting one to me. InBev also owns Stella Artois, no? While nothing to get worked up about, it certainly seems to me to be a cut above the so-called "King of Beers"

Mark Lipton

P.s. having a Czech Budweiser is quite the jarring experience for most Americans.
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is not czech budweiser actually now known as budvar (sp?)? (at least in america?) seems like i read a good while back that budweiser forced the czech budweiser brewery to change the name of their beer.

no, no! bad czechs!!

making the world safe for bubbas that need their bud. budweiser uber alles! the dead kennedy's should have done a song. . .
 
originally posted by robert ames:
is not czech budweiser actually now known as budvar (sp?)? (at least in america?) seems like i read a good while back that budweiser forced the czech budweiser brewery to change the name of their beer.

no, no! bad czechs!!

making the world safe for bubbas that need their bud. budweiser uber alles! the dead kennedy's should have done a song. . .
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It gets marketed here as Czechvar I think, not that I've actually seen it for sale. Within the EU I believe it's known as Budweiser Budvar but recent litigation may have changed that. Since Budweiser is just a Germanic place name for the Czech town, I tend to side against Anheuser-Busch in that whole kerfuffle.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
InBev also owns Stella Artois, no? While nothing to get worked up about, it certainly seems to me to be a cut above the so-called "King of Beers"
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in its current incarnation, i am happier to see it than bro lite.

how are the turnips this year?

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