The beers brewed by our local brewpub are designed for the tourist trade, but even at that they beat the pants off the products of Coors, MIller, Budweiser and the rest of the swillers for flavor, body and, yes, value. The era of American-owned lager nationals may have passed, but the glory days of American brewing are with us now.

It's lousy beer.

Bud bought the name from the Czech brewers Budweiser Budvar.

It's great lager that sells well throughout Europe now, although ironically has to be sold and advertised in the US under teh name "Czechvar".

The only US beer I ever miss when I'm back in Europe is Sierra Nevada.

Thank God (and Fritz Maytag) for Anchor Steam.

Delicious, and usually less than twice the price of the King of Pisswater.

Many of the brands cited were actually quite good in the late 19th and very early 20th centuries. But as the temperance movement gained strength and it became obvious they had to do something to forestall a ban on ALL alcohol, brewers started churning out "less damaging" swill, the chief selling point being that it had less alcohol. After the Volstead Act was repealed these same brewers, for whatever reason, continued churning out the carbonated, fermented piss that they had before. With the dynamic growth of microbrews across the country, I think the days of all the big breweries are numbered. And good riddance.

Swill. Ugh.

reading this, I had to think back to what this boy had told me a long time ago back during high school about Budweiser. he was english born and well, he called it " horsepiss in a bottle" LOL of course comparing it with those english ales his parents preferred[ which he'd steal and we'd drink in the woods] and maybe he had a point, because I never while it being better then busch beer[ also by A.B.] or old milwaukee; I felt that it always had a nasty ass taste to it. bud light, which when it was first invented, was often called " SPUDS LIGHT" ; as in what that freaking female pit bull dog, " spuds mc kenzie"; eliminated in the " doggie ladies' room" after drinking too much water![ though I think miller lite sucks even more!] I never really understood what made this budweiser so famous and popular; as I felt[ still do] that when compared to other better american beers such as pete's wicked, samuel adams,my favorite at the lesbian bars-CORONA{ with the lime, please!}; or any "home brew" you can name including brooklyn lager- BUDWEISER SUCKS! to be honest, I think good old miller high life; totally blows " pud-weiser" away![ another name I heard it called!LOL] yet the men suck it down like water everywhere; and the " diet-challenged" women suck down its sister beer, BUD LIGHT! even gretchen wilson of country music fame, a feminist country muscian I respect [almost as much as K.D. Lang!] seems to love her BUD!the question is[ or now WAS!] WHY?? what made this shit beer, BUD, so popular? gag me with a full budweiser bottle, I'm sure!

is what I said when I drank the one can of Bud I've had in my life.

Sort of. The canning plant that put the stuff in cans burned down a month ago, and now you can only get UC in kegs. It's decent beer, you can't beat the price if you happen to be in the central New York area, and it's the very first beer sold when Prohibition was repealed. We'll burn the rest of Utica down before we give that up.

Anyway, they plan to put it back in stores as soon as they can find someone to can it for them. It ain't quite dead yet.

Personally, I prefer the lighter American beers over the heavy European and craft beers. They don't agree with me, make me feel bloated, and give me a headache. A couple weeks ago I got p!ssed at my brother when I gave him some money to buy beer, when he was going out to pick up things for a BBQ, and he came back with one of those heavy beers. I can't stand that stuff.

But, as a St. Louisian, the loss of Anheuser-Busch is a major blow. St. Louis at one time had quite a few major corporate headquarters located here, but as time went on, most of them have been bought out. Bud is just another nail in the St. Louis coffin.

Business wise, I think this purchase is a mixed bag. It will help Bud's international distribution, and help InBev distribute in the U.S., but I think Anheuser-Busch being bought out by a foreign firm will hurt domestic sales of Bud.

The only way that mainstream American beer is drinkable is if it's really, really, REALLY cold. So maybe the advent of ubiquitous, affordable refrigeration (which is dependent on cheap electricity) paved the way for a culture of equine urine. (As Mr. McClelland mentions, ALL American beers tasted pretty much like Bud by 1960 or so. My parents' brand was Shaefer. Shudder.)

Likewise, in Europe refrigeration has always been more expensive. Hence the possibility of beer that tastes good.

Fare thee well, Budweiser--you are to beer what Twinkies are to dessert.

I do miss my Hudepohl and Burger Beer. "Get in the moody with a Hudy."

I am laughing and I do like Stella Artois better. Not much for Miller, either.

… for confirming what I already suspected: that there is really no reason I should care about the InBev sale. Hell, some Belgians buying A-B might be the best thing that ever happened to it. Perhaps they could hire some Trappist monks as the new brewmasters.

I'll always have my beloved Yuengling, our nation's oldest brewery. Nearly as cheap as (and about a million times better than) the unholy Bud/Miller/Coors trio.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Bud have something to do with the buyout of Rolling Rock? If so, then as a Pittsburgher, specifically, I say to Hell with 'em!