Bartender, a can of America please

[41magsnub]

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/10/budweiser-has-a-new-name-and-that-name-is-america.html

Budweiser is renaming itself to "America".  This is not a parody or joke.

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[wmenorr67]

 

No amount of marketing is going to get them reverse the trend of them losing market share.

[lupinus]

No amount of marketing is going to get them reverse the trend of them losing market share.

Nope.

Perhaps they should try making their beer not taste like watered down fermented donkey piss.

But I suspect they'll continue gobbling up OK tasting beers and adding them to their portfolio, since they can't fix their own. Sadly, some of the beers they gobble up they can't resist *expletive deleted*ing with the recipe and adding a flare of watered down fermented donkey pissedness to the brew. And then wondering why folks stop buying it.

[brimic]

I was never a fan of Budweiser America, but the more craptastic beers made by hipster microbrewers that taste like an alcoholic tea made from a combination of  pine needles and asian lady beetles, the more I can appreciate a light lager beer like Budweiser.

[KD5NRH]

Budweiser is renaming itself to "America".  This is not a parody or joke.

Of course not; it's an ideal metaphor.  Watered down, wimped out, emasculated and failing.

[230RN]

It's sure to get them on some "patriotic/constitutionalist/watch them" list somewhere.

[MechAg94]

To be honest, their former glory was enhanced by friendly beer distribution laws/regulations in a number of states that made if difficult for local beers to be produced.  However, the Budweiser name is pretty big and at some point in the past, people drank it because they preferred it.  This just seems like a last gasp on the way down the toilet. 

[BlueStarLizzard]

Budweiser going away is only worrisome to me for one reason.

What's going to happen to the Clydesdale's? 

[brimic]

Budweiser going away is only worrisome to me for one reason.

What's going to happen to the Clydesdale's? 

Glue and puppy chow 

[BlueStarLizzard]

Glue and puppy chow 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK0zRVzvtB4

how could you?   

[Regolith]

Budweiser isn't even an American company anymore; they're owned by the *expletive deleted*ing Belgians. 

[Scout26]

So a beer started by Germans, named after a Bohemian Czechoslovakian town, now owned by Belgians is being re-named after the US. 


Not that I care as I can't stand Budweiser.  It always gave me a headache. 

[Phyphor]

Budweiser was a mainstay of my 20s (Hey, I was friggin' close to broke, and that was the only cheap beer I could actually stand.  Natural just gave me horrible headaches and Miller High-Life stopped tasting decent for some reason,)

Now? I'd once in a while grab a 12 pack, if I felt like slumming it/drinking on the cheap.

If my dad were still alive, this would probably kill him, either through confusion or laughter.

[Hawkmoon]

I was never a fan of Budweiser America, but the more craptastic beers made by hipster microbrewers that taste like an alcoholic tea made from a combination of  pine needles and asian lady beetles, the more I can appreciate a light lager beer like Budweiser.

^^^ This

Of course, now that medical problems have decreed that I can't imbibe anything alcoholic, I'm stuck with O'Doul's or O'Doul's dark if I want to quaff something vaguely beer-like.

[charby]

Budwesier has a solid ad campaign, the name change is only temporary lasting the election cycle. They do American flags on cans every summer for last couple of years for Independence Day.

I used to run a Friday beer garden for several years in the summer and we'd out sell microbrews 10 to 1 with bud and bud light. I don't like Budwesier, tastes too sweet to me and gives me a wicked hangover.

[grampster]

We drank PBR as kids.  69 cents a six pack in those days.  I stopped drinking it years ago.  I had a couple 16 oz cans on Taco Thursday at Nick Fink's Tavern here in Comstock Park.  It actually didn't taste so bad at all at $2.00 a can.  But I digress...

I've always hated Bud.  Never liked it's taste.  I'll admit to not being a beer aficionado.  I like sweeter beers, low in hops.   Thus when I drink beer it's Miller High Life, Labatts, Molson and Yuengling, not necessarily in that order.  I'll do an occasional black and tan.  As for micro brews I go for whatever they have that is low in hops.  Beer taste is very subjective in my view.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Never drink beer
selling one in five beers sold in the world gives them a pretty significant market share

In the USA they have 45% market share

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[MechAg94]

Budwesier has a solid ad campaign, the name change is only temporary lasting the election cycle. They do American flags on cans every summer for last couple of years for Independence Day.

I used to run a Friday beer garden for several years in the summer and we'd out sell microbrews 10 to 1 with bud and bud light. I don't like Budwesier, tastes too sweet to me and gives me a wicked hangover.

All the major beer makers sell a lot of beer.  Lots of people love to dump on them, but a lot of people drink it.  I always liked to drink Coors Light.  Everyone complained that is tasted like water.  However, at the end of the day, the Coors Light and other light beers were gone and the fancy crap was still there.  

I don't care much.  I will drink what I want to drink, but I am amused sometimes by all the wine beer connoisseur talk.  It is an interest I don't share.

[charby]

All the major beer makers sell a lot of beer.  Lots of people love to dump on them, but a lot of people drink it.  I always liked to drink Coors Light.  Everyone complained that is tasted like water.  However, at the end of the day, the Coors Light and other light beers were gone and the fancy crap was still there.  

I don't care much.  I will drink what I want to drink, but I am amused sometimes by all the wine beer connoisseur talk.  It is an interest I don't share.

I drink a lot of Miller Lite. Last weekend an old Vietnam vet had a cooler full of Budwesier, asked me if I wanted a beer, I said yes it's my favorite kind of beer, free and cold. Brought a smile to his face.

[wmenorr67]

I drink a lot of Miller Lite. Last weekend an old Vietnam vet had a cooler full of Budwesier, asked me if I wanted a beer, I said yes it's my favorite kind of beer, free and cold. Brought a smile to his face.

+infinity

[lupinus]

Miller Lite and PBR are OK backyard party beers. A couple other inexpensive beers work also.

Bud, however, is straight up nasty.

[brimic]

Miller Lite and PBR are OK backyard party beers. A couple other inexpensive beers work also.

Bud, however, is straight up nasty.

Reminds me..
Went to the 'Beer School' tent at Sea World a long time ago- it was literally the only place I had seen any form of beer in 3 days when I was down there... 
The presenter poured us small glasses of beer- one was slightly darker than the other- and he started talking about beer quality.
He had us taste both glasses of beer, and asked if anyone knew what was going on. Someone chimed in "the darker one is skunky", Presenter told him he was right, the beer was skunked. All the time I was thinking that it tasted exactly like every budweiser that I've ever drank 

Apparantly, that's the story with Heineken. It used to come to the US via ship, and by the time it hit the shelves in America, it was several months old and the packaging wasn't the best for keeping it fresh- Americans thought Heineken was supposed to taste like a skunk's ass, so Heineken made sure that the beer coming to America had their trademark skunk taste afterward.