Budweiser losing the battle with craft beers

New York Post ^ | February 26, 2015

[SamAdams76]

Anheuser-Busch InBev is having a tough time getting millennials to crack open a can of Budweiser.

The world’s biggest brewer said Thursday that falling unemployment and “premium” brands are boosting overall beer sales in the US, its biggest market.

But the company is struggling to market Bud — the 139-year-old American brand with blue-collar roots — to younger drinkers, who prefer craft brews and bourbon.

[Darren McCarty]

That said Budweiser always tasted like cheap waterey skunk piss to me. It’s the stuff you buy when you don’t have a lot of money but want a lot of “beer”.

If I wanted the super cheap stuff, I'd get Busch (not lite). Busch tastes less worse than Bud.

[doorgunner69]

PBR is truly the worst beer I have ever tasted.

I take you have never had a Carling Black Label or Ballantines from a pallet of beer sitting out in the southeast Asian sun for a few weeks?

[Rebelbase]

I’m all for craft brew but being raised on lagers my preference is a subtle hop flavor on the back end not a force 10 smack in the face the nano-second it enters my mouth.

A testament to craft brew market success: A regional grocer built a new mega store nearby and devoted an enormous area to craft brews. The macro crap was relegated to a walk-in cooler about 1/6 the size of the craft brew section.

[theneanderthal]

The waiter replied, “Yes, senor...that is so you don’t hear your own screams.”

All right that one sent me over the edge and down the rabbit hole.

A toast of Knob Creek to you sir.

[dfwgator]

I take you have never had a Carling Black Label or Ballantines from a pallet of beer sitting out in the southeast Asian sun for a few weeks?

"We put in just a touch of formaldehyde for flavor. Some people get sick, yeah. So if you have to be rushed to a holpital, then when you return, I give you a free salad."

[Secret Agent Man]

Yeah that was bad stuff too.

Bud, Busch, Red White and Blue, Corona. All just awful, awful beers.

Miller was okay. Thought Michelob was better. I had pale ales over in England. Also hard ciders that I liked the best.

[ansel12]

When I lived in South Minneapolis, this was what I drank, it was the cheapest beer that I have ever seen in my life, much cheaper than the "green death" that everyone else drank.

[Darren McCarty]

I never acquired the IPA taste. Too bitter. I like a good Pale Ale that isn't as bitter as a Sierra Nevada. Bell's Midwestern is lesser known, but I like it. I'm drinking a Detroit brew right now. Atwater's Dirty Blonde. Not bad. First six pack I bought of it.

Millennials love the IPA's. Bell's Two-Hearted is about as famous as their Oberon now. To each their own, but I wish the regular Pale Ales aren't forgotten.

[chris37]

I have not, I’ve not heard of those TBH.

The two worst I’ve ever had are PBR and Milwaukee’s Beast.

Awful, awful stuff.

[Darren McCarty]

Corona. Mexican Budweiser I call it.

Irony is that I've seen a Mexican or Mexican American drink a Corona. I've seen them drink Dos Equis, but not Corona.

[Secret Agent Man]

Yeah, me too. The joke around the college at that time was because they didn’t like the taste of their own p1ss.

[stisidore]

Here’s my two cents. A little out-take from the Blaxploitation spoof movie “Black Dynamite”.

A little discussion about the effects of a certain malt liquor, which I think was aimed at Cobra.

Hope you get a laugh of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t96R1JKrg98

If not, try these on (they have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with beer, but hey, this is funny.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXXeIRRwGYY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg9a5avbc34

[Walmartian]

I used to make my own beer but I couldn’t make enough.

[djf]

I can easily make a beer at home that is way better than Bud...

[doorgunner69]

Well, it was almost 50 years ago, hopefully those swill producers are long gone. The military must have gotten some great deal on the crap.

Lucky for me at the time, I was not much of a drinker. Felt bad for the really thirsty guys that felt the need to drink a lot of it warm.

[Fiji Hill]

If you ordered something "exotic" like Heineken or even Lowenbrau, heads at the bar would turn and your masculinity might be called into question.

After a year in Germany, I developed a taste for beer. After returning to the US, if Löwenbräu was on the menu, I would usually order it because it was the closest thing to real German beer. At first I pronounced it the German way, but I quickly learned to call it "low win brow."

[Fiji Hill]

The worst beer I ever drank was Moskovskoye, a Soviet brew that could be found everywhere in Moscow in the Brezhnev era. If you went to a more upscale restaurant, you might find Stella, an Egyptian beer. Seems Sadat was shipping beer to the Soviet Union in return for SA-2 and SA-6 missiles, T-62 tanks and MiG warplanes to use against the Israelis.

[dfwgator]

LOL, reminds me of the exchange in “One, Two, Three”....

Peripetchikoff: Here, take one of these.
C.R. Macnamara: Thanks. Hm, ‘Made in Havana’.
Peripetchikoff: We have trade agreement with Cuba. They send us cigars, we send them rockets.
C.R. Macnamara: Good thinking.

C.R. MacNamara: You know something? You guys got cheated. This is a pretty crummy cigar.
Peripetchikoff: Do not worry. We send them pretty crummy rockets.

[Fiji Hill]

I like Budweiser--the one on the right.

[MaxMax]

Are there any good crafted non-alcoholic beers?

/Runs for cover