How can anyone drink Budweiser ...yuck

[milesvdustin]

I'll drink the **** out of some Budweiser. Don't hate.

 

[snowtires]

Kokanee is superior to bud IMO. It still isn't craft beer but it can be consumed at temperatures above freezing without making me gag.

It must be that glacier fresh drinking taste, i drank kokanee that was brewed in edmonton, NOT the same. They sell kokanee gold at some stores and that is a nice beer kind of a pale lager or sorts.

 

[HIlife]

I couldn't have said it better. Besides, on a hot day when I'm actually thirsty, I don't want something too malty or hoppy. I may just opt for a PBR after cutting the grass. Light, crisp lagers have their place in the world of beer. Plus they don't give me awful trots the next morning like a full bodied beer.

Call me crazy but when I'm thirsty I drink water. When I want beer I drink beer. Drinking should be about the ride, not the destination.

I have to eat to survive, but food is amazing so as long as I have to make it I try to make the best I can. Otherwise I'd eat dog chow, I don't even like dog chow.

 

[MinnesnowtaBrew]

I guess who really cares? Just because I homebrew amazing beer doesn't mean I now have a right to call all BMC drinkers erroneous. I grew up on "big beer" because we never had money nor anyone really cared about craft back then. It's an emerging industry. If someone wants to grab a quick big Mac as oppose to a nice sit down steak house, I'm not going to question it, or really even care for that matter.

I don't drink craft beer to be cool. If I'm out of beer and a buddy came over with a 6 pack of Bud, I'd happily drink it with him w/o complaining.

 

[jsguitar]

I certainly wouldn't recommend it in Oklahoma. Last I checked you can't get it anywhere in the state at the full %. My BIL picked some up and I could hardly drink it. It's been awhile, but last time I had regular Bud I enjoyed it. I tend to like fuller flavored styles though pretty much always.

 

[Zamial]

I felt sexier knowing that a super model was about to come out of a wall, shake out her hair, give me NASCAR season tickets and a ZJ.

 

[digitaldeluge]

They have their place. I have no shame in picking up an 18 pack of Coors for drinking while doing work around the house, they are cheap and go great with hot weather and manual labor. Also, I never turn down a beer unless its I have to drive, work or study .

 

[45_70sharps]

I do understand that everyone has their own taste but that's just the thing, there is no taste in bud.
Like I said before, the people that I know that drink Bud on purpose are people that drink a lot and want something cheap and not filling. They are about quantity.

 

[PapsD]

Don't get ur monocles out of place but......

I think Bud, PBR, and Coor's banquet are pretty tasty and would gladly drink one, free or not. I've also had more than a few craft beers I've poored out or could barely choke down.

 

[chuckstout]

It is a alcholic beverage and im guessing 95% of adults in the U.S.A. have heard of or seen there symbol. So ill say image because if they wanted cheap they would buy the 6.99 18 packs that are being sold these days

 

[Iron_Clad]

I think Bud is pretty tasty myself. After all, my first beer was a St Ides. Now that is some gross stuff.

 

[Punity]

Coors PBR and Rainer the holy trinity.

 

[Soup4you2]

I think it's mainly that a lot of people really have not developed a taste for beer. So they get what they are used to and whats cheap. A large portion of people also really only drink to get **** faced, and not to sit back and enjoy a good flavorful beer.

 

[phenry]

Don't get ur monocles out of place but......

I think Bud, PBR, and Coor's banquet are pretty tasty and would gladly drink one, free or not. I've also had more than a few craft beers I've poored out or could barely choke down.

This. Just because it's craft doesn't mean it's good. At least I know what I'm getting when I buy a 30 pack of PBR. Picking up a mix 6er of craft beer I've never tried usually leaves me pretty disappointed in at least one or two bottles. I'll take a PBR over a "meh" IPA any day. Maybe my expectations for beer styles is higher than most peoples? I don't know.

 

[mcspanner]

Because those products serve a purpose. In exactly the same way that I don't think instant coffee is as good as freshly ground arabica beans it doesn't stop me drinking instant when convenience or availability dictates. I can still enjoy it just not as much as my bean (or beer) of preference.

Am I going to ridicule people who don't like full flavoured strong coffee roasts? No. To each their own.

 

[FirstLadyofBeer]

I have to agree that they have their place. When i go to bonnaroo in the summer, during the day, its always in the high 90s and feels like low 100s. While i bring brooklyn summer and some other canned craft beer, they're all still heavy during the day and the best thing in that heat is a pbr or 'gansett lager.

Also while in college i drank craft when i could afford it. But when i was broke i would pick up some 'gansett lager. I would also get it while i was out and broke because you couldn't beat a $2 tall boy.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

I do understand that everyone has their own taste but that's just the thing, there is no taste in bud.
Like I said before, the people that I know that drink Bud on purpose are people that drink a lot and want something cheap and not filling. They are about quantity.

If you can discern no taste in budweiser compared to water, then it's not the beer at fault. If, however, you simply don't like the taste. Then so be it.

 

[kkramer56]

From the very start of this company, they have been willing to do anything to stifle competition from anyone, no matter how small. They have used legal harassment, law suits and purchased ads to attempt to discredit smaller and respected breweries such as Sam Adams and Pete's Wicked including inflammatory ads in newspaper and radio in Jim Koch's hometown of Boston. They constantly have resorted to false or misleading advertising to sell products. Even their beer name "Budweisier" is stolen as was the recipe for it. And weren't they the ones to use the slogan "same as it ever was"? We all know that's not true. They also have tried to bully distributors to only carry their products on their trucks and when this was called illegal they offered "incentives" to oust other products. The list goes on.

In the middle 80's I was involved with a homebrew club and became the president. In my travels I spoke to the former brewmaster and VP of production for the now and recently (at that time) closed Horlacher Brewing Company, Louis Kogelman. The brewery was in my hometown of Allentown, PA. He informed me that this small brewery (around 230,000 barrels per year) was sued by Anheuser Busch for what they called a monopoly on the train industry. Horlacher products were served on all trains in the area. Horlacher lost the suit and was forced to close shortly thereafter due to the sudden loss of this business. This information came from Kogelman himself who worked for Horlacher up until their closing.

Horlacher wasn't hurting Anheuser Busch and the train industry would have faded out anyway by itself as would have Horlacher most likely. But the giant AB wasn't about to miss an opportunity to put another brewery out of business.

These are only some of the reasons I will never knowingly purchase any product by this company. And yes, I understand the company is now owned by InBev.

 

[Trokair]

BMCs have a few things going for them. They are cheap, readily available, easy to drink, and socially ingrained (at least in America).

I hope that some of my SMaSHes turn out to be as drinkable and as cheap as Bud Light. Before I started homebrewing that was my mainstay. I'd like to say that my own beer is my mainstay in the future.

As far as the legal stuff and bullying, there really isn't a way to get around it. You can stand on your morals but then you have to do it on everything. Like not using Walmart or Target, Homedepot or Lowes, Exxon or 7-11, Mcdonalds or Taco Bell, etc etc etc. Any company of a large size begins to force their competition to make more money because they can and that is their reason for existing. You literally cannot function inside of this society without contributing to a company that forces others out of buisness. Unless you live in isolation.

 

[Phyrst]

I had a dream last night I was at a bar and they were running a special. All the Budweiser you could drink all night for $5. I dropped the $5 and drank like crazy while my friends all paid $5 a pop for craft beers.

I woke up in a cold sweat and felt dirty.

 

[Whippy]

I can appreciate Budweiser for what it is, but I prefer other styles.

 

[Subsailor]

I tried one of the Bud Platinums the other day at my youngest son's insistence. I got through half of it and dumped the rest into my Brat pot.

 

[Cambone]

...and a ZJ.

What is a ZJ?

 

[Punity]

What is a ZJ?

If you have to ask you can't afford it

 

[byrdmen]

I disagree with everyone here who thinks eople drink Bud becasue it's cheap, marketing sells beer. My Dad can afford any beer out there, but he only drinks Bud and can quote most of their marketing slogans. Marketing sells beer and ABInbev spends bucks on marketing.

Besides, in college I drank Scaeffer Lite becasue it was cheap. I aspired to drink Bud Lite one day.

 

[jsguitar]

I like it when their ad for whatever their 'premium' version of Budweiser says 'it's brewed longer'.

Eta: ah, it's Budweiser Select that uses that phrase.

 

[Rev2010]

I disagree with everyone here who thinks eople drink Bud becasue it's cheap, marketing sells beer.

Disagree all you want, but if Budweiser raised their price to be the same $1.50-$2.00 for a 12oz like a typical Sam Adams is here in the NY/NJ area I can guarantee you they will take a huge sales hit, huge! Where I am people can get a 24oz Bud for that price or less. Sure marketing makes a tremendous difference, and if you take relentless marketing coupled with low price you have a winner.

I have to say though, I haven't seen a Budweiser ad in many years now. Keep in mind I'm not a Nascar and sports guy, but I do watch TV and just don't recall seeing any Bud ads in forever. Actually, come to think of it I see TONS of Sam Adams ads lately... but I don't see their marketing helping to dethrone Bud's sales. So yeah, cheap and highly marketed is the combo, but do not downplay the huge role being inexpensive plays.


Rev.

 

[Big_Cat]

Hahahaha

 

[dfc]

I don't like it and due to business practices will NEVER purchase it, but if someone else wants to buy and enjoy Bud I don't give a damn.

It's nasty though.

 

[mcspanner]

I don't like it and due to business practices will NEVER purchase it, but if someone else wants to buy and enjoy Bud I don't give a damn.

It's nasty though.

I'd say its relatively bland, or maybe generic.

Nasty is reserved for stuff like kestrel super strength or carlseberg special brew. Proper tramp juice.