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capn_caveman1 year, 4 months ago
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Honestly, I can understand why this happened. When it comes down to it - it's all about the $$$.
But at this point it's hard for me to grasp. Budweiser is American beer and always has been. To be honest, I feel kind of 'icky' about this. The same way I would feel if my favorite baseball team sold out to a foreign company.
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gamahuche1 year, 4 months ago
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Your first two sentences are both uncontroversial and right on the money.. After that you go astray!
The name Budweiser comes from the Czech lands; Budweis is the German name for Ceske Budejovice, a town which has, you guessed it a long and proud tradition of brewing - though not nearly as long as many other towns in the Czech lands.
For the last 15 years or so AB has desperately been trying to gain control of one of the largest breweries in the Czech lands, which manufactures a beer called Budvar in Czech,Budweiser in German, in light and dark variants and with some extra-strong beers and non-alcoholic variants thrown in. Their efforts have been thwarted - and are further confused anyway because there is a second less-known but older brewery in the town which also uses the Budweiser name.
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jimdoze1 year, 3 months ago
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Grandpa, born of Czech immigrants, grew his own hops and brewed his own beer. The hops still grows on the farmstead, though no one has used it since WWII days.
When I toured the old sod in the early 80s, I was taken by how the standard working man's breakfast was a bowl of tomato soup, a chunk of bread and large glass of beer. Beer is very deeply ingrained in the Czech culture.
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antibrainwasher1 year, 3 months ago
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The sale is in part because the dollar has fallen, making other curencys able to come into this country and buy anything they want. Its multinational companies that don't deal in dollars that are reaping the globalization buck now. America, for sale. America, bankrupt. america, only thing we do great is spend 3 times as much as anyone else on our evangelical crusader airforce and navy and army.
The stockholders of Bud made a killing, I'll bet Cindy McSenile, the 100 million dollar big liquor heiress, made out just fine.
The budget for Alkida per year is 30 million, that won't even buy one transport helicopter. We spent 1 trillion dollars fighting a 30 million dollar unorganized arab religion.
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DropkickaLib1 year, 3 months ago
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Who'd have thought that taste in beer would bring so many on both ends of the political spectrum together? I've often thought that I should buy any Leftie from this board a beer if I met any of them, just to make up for the debates.
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mark-stevens1 year, 3 months ago
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The Budweiser name was stolen from a European brewery. The Americam Budweiser can't be sold in certain parts of Europe.
I quit drinking beer years ago, our local breweries got bought out and went to hell in taste.
Busch sells twice as many barrels as its nearest competitor the Miller Brewery... so much for American's taste
caverman... "The same way I would feel if my favorite baseball team sold out to a foreign company."
The Seattle Mariners are owned by Nintendo, a very Japanese company!
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