Anheuser-Busch advertising hypocrisy

[Rough Edge racing]

 And the truth... would you still drink beer if it had zero alcohol?  Petrus Rocks drags me into these craft beer bars...I drink one beer a month and while I can taste the difference, it's all bitter to me..

[Triple Jim]

...I drink one beer a month...

I think I found your problem.    ;D

[Mark West]

Bud is not beer IMHO. It and most other domestic crap in a can is a corn/rice/malt beverage sold via a megahype advertising campaign. I have nothing against the people that like that sort of thing but they shouldn't be allowed to call it beer.

All the big beer conglomerates are buying up craft breweries as soon as they become popular but it seems like another new one pops up for everyone that gets bought out.

[jbell]

Heck, all beer tastes horrible.  :D

You sir, have not tried Newcastle's Brown Ale.  Haruuumph.

[jbell]

Little known now, but in the '50s the best selling beer in the US was.....Schlitz. 
Peter Y.

And why not, they invented the pop-top.  Remember the Schlitz girl on TV? 

[Kev m]

And the truth... would you still drink beer if it had zero alcohol?  Petrus Rocks drags me into these craft beer bars...I drink one beer a month and while I can taste the difference, it's all bitter to me..

Fwiw, a lot of craft brewers these days have gone crazy with hops and I ritualistically avoid any IPA (India Pale Ale), APA (American Pale Ale), and often times just plain Pale Ales.

I'm also not a personal fan of a large Portion of Belgian Ales, Saisons, White Ales, or Wheats as they tend to have other flavors, often Citrus or spice.

So that means with the exception of Pilsners which I find nicely balanced with crisp hops that finish instead of lingering in a face contorting burn of sour, that I generally prefer MALTY beers.

Brown ales, ESBs, Maerzens/festbiers, Bocks, Porters, and Stouts.

Guinness is actually a light, creamy, and not bitter beer.

So you MIGHT have better luck with different styles.

[BigDave in PA]

First beer I tasted was a Schlitz sitting on my aunts knee. Still like it and buy it often $5.11 for a sixer of 16 oz cans. I like it just fine

Schlitz is the one beer that women cannot drink at the beach. They always get sand in their Schlitz.

[Rod in Adair]

I read this as I sit here working on a Lienie's big butt dopplebock.  I might have to try this with plate of oysters....Bud doesn't get me thinking about such things.....

[Turin]

unofficial pbr addhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sm8JM-K1dc

[charlie b]

You sir, have not tried Newcastle's Brown Ale.  Haruuumph.

I think I have.  Have tried so many I lost count, still trying to find one I prefer to a soda (and I am a bit picky about my soft drinks as well :)  ).  

And, no, I do not want to drink beer when I want alcohol.  That's what whiskey is for :)  And, no, you don't add anything except branch water to whiskey.  Unless you want to get smashed fast, then you drink it straight.  :D


PS I did see the subject commercial and I think Budweiser screwed up big time.  I still love to watch the Clydesdales and like their sponsored racing teams, but don't want anything to do with their beer products.  My wife loves the Stella.

[Kent in Upstate NY]

IPAs Rock!  The bitterer the better.

[Triple Jim]

unofficial pbr addhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sm8JM-K1dc

That's great!  I love that movie, and now that scene is even more immortalized.  Dig the look on Hopper's face when he's about to enjoy a Pabst.

[the Bailey]

80,000 Americans are killed by alcohol each year, and we are told that a terrorist is going to kill you in a shopping mall.  You are 22 times more likely to be killed by a drunk driver on the way to the mall.  

Don't drink and drive/ride.

Climbing off my soap box now.

I like beer, I don't drink bud.  I  buy many kinds of beer and rarely by the mass produced beer or the same brand or flavor.  I have friends and family members that have made some very good stuff.  Beer is not just for breakfast.

slippery slope ;-)  guns are also way more likely to kill you than defend you

[Rough Edge racing]

Fwiw, a lot of craft brewers these days have gone crazy with hops and I ritualistically avoid any IPA (India Pale Ale), APA (American Pale Ale), and often times just plain Pale Ales.

I'm also not a personal fan of a large Portion of Belgian Ales, Saisons, White Ales, or Wheats as they tend to have other flavors, often Citrus or spice.

So that means with the exception of Pilsners which I find nicely balanced with crisp hops that finish instead of lingering in a face contorting burn of sour, that I generally prefer MALTY beers.

Brown ales, ESBs, Maerzens/festbiers, Bocks, Porters, and Stouts.

Guinness is actually a light, creamy, and not bitter beer.
  
So you MIGHT have better luck with different styles.

An informative answer to a question I didn't ask  ;D  I asked  " would you (plural) drink beer if it had no alcohol content ? "

[Kev m]

An informative answer to a question I didn't ask  ;D  I asked  " would you (plural) drink beer if it had no alcohol content ? "

True, but I'm kind and offered...  :BEER:

Sorry to have skipped your actual question - the answer "duh" --->  :BEER:   (that's a yes).

Back in the 90s when I first started working for Chilton I brought in a mini-fridge I kept under my desk. And we'd keep NA beer in there ... a bunch of us would crack them open towards the end of the day.

[Petrus Rocks]

I have had NA beer, some good.  I'd drink less, but I'd drink it.

I keep trying to convert Rough Edge and show him the possibilities but he is resistant to assimilation.
 
We were at a nice restaurant in Hammondsport after the bike show at the Curtiss museum.
 He says pick something out for me- I order Conways irish ale, mellow and malty for him.  He says oh, I like that.
 His wife tastes it and says I like the skunky taste.  I taste it- it has soured in the lines- bad beer.
Tony would drink a Bud same as anything else- just once a month.

I had 3 beers at lunch and my wife called me piggy  :BEER:

[Rough Edge racing]

I have had NA beer, some good.  I'd drink less, but I'd drink it.

I keep trying to convert Rough Edge and show him the possibilities but he is resistant to assimilation.
 
We were at a nice restaurant in Hammondsport after the bike show at the Curtiss museum.
 He says pick something out for me- I order Conways irish ale, mellow and malty for him.  He says oh, I like that.
 His wife tastes it and says I like the skunky taste.  I taste it- it has soured in the lines- bad beer.
Tony would drink a Bud same as anything else- just once a month.

I had 3 beers at lunch and my wife called me piggy  :BEER:

  Yup,even the Borg can't assimilate me...But I do like hanging in the bar with you once a month and drinking my one beer  ;-T

[gary martin]

And why not, they invented the pop-top.  Remember the Schlitz girl on TV? 

Wrong.  ;) In 1962 Pittsburgh Brewing Co. (Iron City Beer) teamed up with Alcoa to introduce the first snap top beer can.

[Two Checks]

Actually an independent tool designer named Ermal Fraze invented the "zip top" and sold the rights bto Alcoa.

[Lannis]

Actually an independent tool designer named Ermal Fraze invented the "zip top" and sold the rights bto Alcoa.

I wish that guy had to police up all the pop tops that I had to do in my first couple of jobs in the 60s and early 70s.  I probably picked up 20,000 of the things in the state park and the town streets.

The REAL genius is the guy who invented the one that stays with the can!

Lannis

[Bill Hagan]

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 it's all bitter to me..

IMO, the best beers have a bitter finish.

My "perfect beer" -- as yet unfound, but I will search tirelessly until I can't lift a glass  :BEER: -- would be one with a seriously hoppy start and a pronounced bitter finish.  I don't care for "floral notes," etc., that comes with  many IPA's.

You sir have obviously never tasted Theakston's old Peculiar hand pumped by a buxom wench straight from the oak barrel barrel.
https://www.theakstons.co.uk/Ales/Old-Peculier/

I am not, of course, inflexible, so I am willing to negotiate on the hops, notes, and finish for certain ambiance such as described above.   :D

I wish that guy had to police up all the pop tops that I had to do in my first couple of jobs in the 60s and early 70s.  I probably picked up 20,000 of the things in the state park and the town streets.

The REAL genius is the guy who invented the one that stays with the can!

Lannis

EXACTLY.

Bill

[Two Checks]

Oddly enough the "Stay Tab" can was also introduced by Falls City.

[Tobit]

When I drank, and drank beer, I was overseas and enjoyed Panama Beer and Tuborg.  When I returned to the States and tried Tuborg it was a horrible shadow of the brew I previously preferred.

Never cared for Bud at all but drank Miller occasionally when fishing.  PBR was what my Harley buddies drank in the '80s.  Heineken was popular but didn't care for it, same for Michelob.

Then there was:



Just because.

Tobit

[gary martin]

Then there was:




Tobit

ah, yes, the pale, stale ale with the foam on the bottom.  ;D  another Pittsburgh Brewing product.

[donn]

Funny thing, though. The parent company has recently been purchasing microbreweries and is trying to purchase many more.

Compounded irony - the local victim or beneficiary, however you see it, of this acquisition strategy was Elysian, a pretty respectable brewery with a decent line of bottled brews as well as a couple pubs where you could get a "cask conditioned" ale (try that if you get a chance.)  Anyway, their flagship ale was their Immortal IPA, but now what's looking like it might really immortal is the campaign for their "Loser"


This is now a product of the largest corporate beer ever.

[Two Checks]

If thy can sell Bud Light they can sell anything.
Kind of like the HD marketers. Dont sell the product, sell the image.

[Sasquatch Jim]

  My all time favorite bud commercial.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t11FRr09EY

[stormshearon]

 :D ROFL

[LowRyter]

Nothing like being at Busch Stadium, watching the Cardinals, and during the stretch, they play the Budweiser Clydesdale theme.

awesome.  one of the great moments of "sports".   

Then in the top of the 9th, the Cards make a double play look like ballet and THE CARDS WIN! 

ohhhh  yeah...........   ;-T ;-T ;-T ;-T ;-T ;-T ;-T ;-T ;-T ;-T ;-T ;-T



but I have to say, PBR rocks it.   :BEER: :BEER: :BEER: :BEER: :BEER: :BEER: :BEER:

[Vasco DG]

This blog has a panoply of awful ads from *Forever*. The beer/booze ones are particularly amusing. They are all warped though.

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Pete