***ATTN BEER SNOBS*** What's with the hatin' on Budweiser?

[Bake]

I mean, REALLY. It started over in GD and now has spread to Teh Longue. Hatin' on the King of Beers. What do you have against Clydesdales, anyway? I like a lot of beers -- let me rephrase that, I like a variety of beers. Some of the microbrews are OK. Personally, I like Killians Red, I don't care for Heineken, Blue Moon left me kinda flat, but hey, cold beer is cold beer. There's not enough difference in them to look down your beer-snob noses and say this beer or that beer is "horse piss." You want horse piss beer? Billy Beer. Now THAT was some nasty beer.

By the way ... if you vote No. 3 below, you are officially a BEER SNOB.

:hi: :toast: :hi:

Bake

[Rambis]

1. It gives me a headache

First off Bud has 47 ingrediants- strike one
It gives me a headache if I have one- stirke two
It tastes like shit-strike three

Germans got it right! A Beer Purity Law established in 1516 — it limits beer ingredients to yeast, water, barley and hops — was watered down in the late 1980s, allowing the sale of Budweiser through a loophole for import beers (rice is a key ingredient in Budweiser). Various legal challenges kept Budweiser out of Germany until 1996. Even then, Budweiser could only be sold as "Anheuser-Busch Bud," so it would not be confused with the popular Czech beer Budweiser Budvar.

[Rambis]

5. Shouldn't even be allowed to use the name

The (then Czechoslovak) company named Budejovicky Budvar was founded in the town of Ceske Budejovice in 1895. The beer, however has been brewed in Budejovice ever since the 14th century. The disputed "Budeweiser" name is an adjective originating from the German name of the Czech town Ceske Budejovice – Budweis- where the beer was born in the Middle Ages and thus describing the origin of the brew. Budweiser means the beer of the Budweis region, same as Champaign in France describes the wine of the Champaign wineries. Logically then, the Czechs claim to have the right to the name from long before the Americans even started the beer brewing

[auburngrad82]

24. I think it's the rice that causes the headaches

I get them too so I won't touch the stuff.

[Rambis]

26. could be

I visit someone every year for a party and I bring my own Guinness and Smithwicks to share since two of us feel like shit the next day after one bud- I find it funny americans drinking arguably the most american beer and it is made of rice!

[Guava Jelly]

2. All american mass produced beer is shit IMHO

To find a good beer in this country you have to find a micro brewery that doesn't cater to the taste bud deficient masses.
I tried The original Budweiser budvar last week in Germany. It buries the American version.

Guess I'm a snob :)

[FunkyLeprechaun]

10. They sell it here in the UK in my local SPAR

But I did try Budweiser in Prague several years back and it was deeelish.

[JVS]

14. You can buy that in the US now. It's called Czechvar

http://www.czechvar.com/index.html

[DarkTirade]

32. There are a few, but they're mostly small breweries that BECAME big because they didn't suck.

:P

[Initech]

3. Its shitty beer. Thankfully Anhueser-Busch has some other beers that are much better.

Ever had Shock Top or Brewmaster's Select? I highly recommend both of those.

[redqueen]

4. I'm no beer snob, but even I know that stuff is na-hasty.

[Elidor]

6. Horse piss probably has more flavor

What little flavor bud has is offensive to my tastebuds. It tastes like shit. It's not quite as nasty as Milwaukee's Worst, but it's damned close.

[SacredCow]

7. I'll drink Bud in a pinch...

It's sure as HELL a lot better than Miller or Miller Lite, which I find to be worse than even Pabst.

[sasquatch]

8. Because micro-brews are the bomb

[Burma Jones]

9. Unless you have run around chasing after your kids at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg in August

and you purchase an incredibly cold Bud in a Red Aluminum Bottle at one of the many convenient kiosks scattered in the park, slam said Bud and then immediately buy another and slam that one and then a third, all while your kids are staring at you and your wife explains that that's "Daddy's Favorite Ride"........well, you just can't judge.

Frankly, nothing beats an ice cold Bud after mowing the lawn, and I have had the finest Belgian Beers available in the USA, have ordered a superb Alsatian Ale to go with my Choucroute at the DC area's finest French Restaurant, sampled Microbrews from Oregon to Maine, in short, have tippled with the most elitist of beer snobs, but enjoy the sensation, and yes, the recapturing of youth, provided by the King Of Beers.

[BOSSHOG]

11. I'll drink to that

nothing but Budweiser for me although I am a little taken aback that they are being sold. However if you are shelling out 52 BILLION for a product chances are you won't change it.

The snobs are out in force but thank gawd we all don't have the same taste.

[Burma Jones]

21. Anybody that thinks Bud is a Shitty Beer

has not had nearly enough truly shitty beer........

[Kali]

43. or been in the middle of nowwhere on a hot day with a cooler full of them

hell keystone has it's moments :rofl:

[Bake]

16. Daddy's Favorite Ride!!!!!!

EXCELLENT!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Bake

[JVS]

12. I prefer Hamm's or Schlitz. Better beer at lower price, but a bud is ok.

[old mark]

13. WRONG- Bud makes horse piss seem like a bertter choice.

I'm glad the Belgians bought it. Maybe they will improve it - they couldn't hurt it.

FWIW, I haven't been a drinker for many years, so I am basing my Bud taste report on the "old Bud" of over 20 years ago.
I am sure it got worse.

mark

[BOSSHOG]

15. Would a company

buy a product for 52 BILLION DOLLARS which gets 48 percent of the US market and CHANGE THAT PRODUCT? FWIW, I had a swig of Bud about 10 seconds ago and its fine and dandy to me. I've never drank horse piss.

[Bake]

18. Hey Boss, pop the top on one for me!

:hi:

The Belgians apparently think it's worth buying!

Bake

[BOSSHOG]

20. Hey DB41

Its raining here in Pearl River County, so when I can't mow I drink beer. I'll be more then happy to meander to my stash in the garage refrigerator and Pop one for you. God awful hot here but rain every day means the grass needs constant tending. Guess I just ain't drinking enough.

[trof]

17. It's great for washing your hair.

For those of you with hair.

[LanternWaste]

19. As beer goes...

As beer goes, I don't think it's really any better or any worse than any of the other cold brands-- I mean, it's as though everyone is arguing "well, *this* horse piss tastes worse than the horse piss I drink"...

:hide:

[Bake]

22. Did anybody actually LOVE beer the first time they tasted it?

Think back to your first beer. Teenager, whatever. Your absolutely very first beer. Did you really LIKE it? It's not like the first time you had a Coke and said HOT DAMN I LOVE THIS SHIT! Does ANYBODY really like beer the first time?

I love beer. But the first time I tasted it, I realized it was going to be an "acquired taste."

Bake

[EnviroBat]

58. I can't find beer that had the same flavor that beer used to have back then.

It was a PBR I think. That or Genesee Cream Ale that my Dad used to let me try. There are simply NO domestic beers that taste like that anymore. I can't find them anywhere. Everything has tons of sugar in it, or rice. All swill.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

23. I'm of the school of thought that beer is beer, and anyone who drinks beer for the taste of it...

....is seriously missing the point. Bud works as well as any other brew in getting me where I want the beer to take me.

And frankly, I've had microbrewery beer on multiple occassions, and really it isn't all that great. They all seem to try for the amber brew, which is just bitter and nasty to me IMHO. Give me a brand name draft any day.

[bigwillq]

25. Bud is awful.

:puke:

[flvegan]

27. As an animal nutjob, I dislike them for different reasons.

I liked Bud Light in college.

[Bake]

29. That one whizzed right over my head ...

Start over, please.

:hi:

Bake

[flvegan]

36. See post #35 below.

As an animal rights freako, I boycott any sponsors of events that abuse animals.

[Book Lover]

34. May I ask what it is they do to animals?

I don't drink the A-B crap personally, but I drink plenty of other brews, so if there's something done to animals during the process, I'd like to know!

[flvegan]

35. Anheuser Busch/Bud is a big rodeo sponsor.

Some of their animal parks don't exactly get some of their animals responsibly, either.

[Book Lover]

37. Thank you, I had no idea

They have animal parks? Geez, the things you learn...

[flvegan]

38. Well

Busch Gardens and Sea World for starters (parks).

[Book Lover]

39. Obviously I was raised in a skinner box...

:dunce:

[TZ]

28. All beer tastes like horse piss to me....

Yes, I am a beer hater....:P

[DarkTirade]

61. I thought that way too

until I discovered real beer.

[Karenina]

30. Maybe with the takeover you'll get to know

what beer is really supposed to taste like! That commercial pisswasser in the U.S. is beyond redemption.

[unpossibles]

31. If I am going to drink really crappy beer

I'll get cheaper really crappy beer.

[tigereye]

33. I spent too much time drinking horrible cheap beer as a student

Old Milwaukee comes to mind, and Miller.... blech.


With so many wonderful locally made microbrews and the great availability of imports, I have no intention ever of drinking mass produced beer again!



sign me - beer snob! :)

[LeftyMom]

40. I don't drink enough to bother with bad beer.

I guess if I had the tolerance I'd have some incentive to be less picky, but as little as I drink even shameless beer snobbery is well within the budget. Which is why I don't drink cheap beer, period.

Why I wouldn't drink an AB product even if it was the tastiest damn thing ever, flvegan explained above.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

41. If you can see through beer, you probably shouldn't drink it.

That's my theory anyway. Bud is the only alcohol that has ever made me vomit.
Duckie

[EnviroBat]

56. Exactly!

[Kali]

42. It is to beer what Taco Bell is to Mexican food.

Ok when you are in the mood, but shitty when you aren't.

Damn good after a hot day working outside and there isn't anything else!

[bluesbassman]

50. Best reply so far Kali.

:toast:

I wouldn't go out of my way to drink a Bud, but I agree with your criteria!

[Lil Missy]

44. Budweiser is the ONLY beer that will give me a nasty headache.

I won't drink it.

If they are out of everything else, I'll drink water.

umkai thxbye

[Pierre.Suave]

45. There is nothing you could do

to make me drink Shitweiser...

[Chan790]

46. It's not just Bud...

it's American-style mass-produced beers in general.

Budweiser
Busch
Coors
Miller High Life
Miller Genuine Draft
Bud Light
Coors Light
Miller Lite
Budweiser Select
Schlitz

They're all crap.

The only domestics I drink are Yuengling and Samuel Adams

[EnviroBat]

59. Try some of the Goose Island brews if you get a chance.

They're out of Chicago, and they do some really good beers. All Ales, and made with love...

[baby_mouse]

47. Arran Blonde.

Old Speckled Hen. Landlord. Dark Island. Theakston's Old Peculiar.

BUDWEISER????

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

48. It's not horse piss.

It's goat piss with a soupçon of cleaning fluid.

[Maestro]

49. It's horse piss. It has no body, gawd awful flavor

and I really think piss would actually taste better. Try a nice ale. I just had two of Samuel Adams' Summer Ale in a bottle. Very nice.

[harmonicon]

51. none of the above

I've had worse beer, and I'll take a bud if someone gives me one at a party or something, but I'd never buy it. It's really barely beer at all.... I think a McDonald's hamburger is more like a real nice hamburger than a Budweiser is a real beer.

I also don't like that the US Budweiser stole their brand name from an actual well-established Czech brewer. The OTHER Budweiser - the real one - is a really fantastic beer. The US stuff isn't even a poor imitation... just a rip off in name with some sort of drink in the bottle.

[Bake]

52. Doesn't it feel good (i.e., superior) to drink something nobody else has heard of?

I just love that smug feeling I get when I pop open a nice cold Schlammenmacher, knowing that I'm sooooooooo superior to the average Joe Sixpack horse-piss drinker!

:sarcasm:

Bake

[EnviroBat]

53. Now that they've sold out to a European Brewery

I'll never touch their swill again.

Oh and this is another reason...

[MrCoffee]

54. It's no Miller High Life, that's for sure.

[Zuiderelle]

55. I answered 3, even though I would drink it if I were dying of thirst.

Theoretically.

[AllegroRondo]

57. Life is too short to waste on crappy beer.

[LynneSin]

60. If I wanted to drink Piss water I could get it free from my own source

:eyes:

[Bake]

62. Aha! Just as I suspected! I knew you'd be a beer snob!!

:rofl: :rofl: :hi: :rofl: :rofl:

Bake

[lazyriver]

63. I call it, "Buttwiper", and only use it for killing slugs in the garden.