Why Budweiser Is No Longer The King Of Beer
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- Anheuser-Busch InBev is the world's largest brewer with 500 brands in more than 100 countries. In 2016, Flemish Interbrew and Brazilian Ambev, together known as InBev, merged with the American legacy company Anheuser-Busch, which ultimately brought AB under the leadership of 3G Capital. 3G Capital is a Brazilian-American global investment firm whose tactics include an aggressive, and at times controversial, cost-cutting strategy. AB InBev's longtime priority of aggressive acquisitions has been coupled with a focus on profit and price per barrel rather than volume share. Premiumization and expanding beyond beer continue to be winning strategies. In 2021, the company amassed $54.3 billion in revenue with 169,000 employees worldwide. As overall beer consumption has declined, AB InBev has transformed from merely a beer company to the largest beverage company in the world.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
2:08 - Ch. 1: Becoming Anheuser-Busch
4:51 - Ch. 2: A consolidation game
9:20 - Ch. 3 - Going beyond beer
Produced by: Jade Tungul
Senior Managing Producer: Tala Hadavi
Graphics by: Christina Locopo, Jade Tungul
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Why Budweiser Is No Longer The King Of Beer
Bud is now considered the queen of beers
Fake Queen. The new spokesperson is a man mocking women.
😂😂😂✊
Anheiser-Busch now sells tranny fluid.
That’s really funny but I think a more appropriate title would be “Princess”!
Days of Beerhood since 1876 ngl🤣🤣
Budweiser at any point in history being "King of Beer" is a bold statement ....Greetings from Germany
Yeah. The nearest in my opinion is Samuel Adams, and Koch's family comes from Germany.
But what goes with Germany, Schneider Weisse, Schöfferhofer, Paulaner and even Löwenbräu are pretty good, at least in my opinion.
I mean, I think they’re going off of sales. McDonald’s is king of cheese burgers, but not king of what people like.
It's just their typically US centric point of view..
well, its typically a mericans... same as their self proclaimed greatest country in the world kinda sh*t...
Garbage
Bud light gives pounding a tall boy after work a whole new meaning😎
Easy there skipper-it was a commercial, not a mission statement. Snowflake
@@uwcb1Both of yalls jokes here was funny 😂
Bahahahahah
Must have been a great day at work 😂
I bet you can't wait for work to end.
This aged beautifully.
They would sell alot more beer if they weren't trying to charge $20 for a 12 pack of middle of the road beer. Alot of drinkers have woken up and are purchasing higher quality local craft brews at similar prices. Honestly, any brand that InBrev gets their hands on tends to suffer in quality as corporate is always cost cutting in pursuit of profit. Nowadays rice, corn, and even corn syrup have made their way into the brewing world as a way to increase volume and decrease the cost of inputs.
literally this.
the bar that i work at has many local (or semi-local, about 100miles away) craft beers on tap. they are actually tasty, ABV tends to be 6-10%, and cost around 7 or 10 dollars for a pint. the distributor that sells the domestics like bud light, blue moon, michelob ultra, etc, literally has it in our distribution contract that we charge 5 dollars for a pint. unless some SUPER BASIC bachelor party comes in, we rarely sell the domestics (pabst blue ribbon is the outlier, we can charge 3 dollars for a pint and that goes really quick).
i will not name any names, but one of our local brewers (the brewery is three or four blocks over from where i work) got a sweet deal to sell their beer at a local big chain grocery store. some of the employees come into the bar after their shifts and they have said that they literally can not keep up with the demand, mainly because it's so hard for them to reliably source the ingredients for some of their brews. the funny thing is, they aren't even an old brewery. they only sprung up in the last four or so years. everyone that works there is dedicated to the company and they are all so involved in the process of brewing that some employees might have a great idea and they get to put their name on the beer/seltzer that they created.
BIG BEER is dead. and i am so happy.
I agree, here in Chicago our big local brewers are revolution and gooseisland and their stuff is reasonably priced and tasty as hell
At best middle of the road tastes like half drunk Perrier
nowadays?....corn and rice have been used for a LONG time.
@@dementious Is blue moon any good? Haven't tried it yet and some guys at a concert i was at a while back went through like 4 each lol
Half of young Americans have discovered cheap beer is gross and soulless. The other half has discovered alcohol does nothing good but ruin lives and families.
For real. Beer is a low IQ intoxicant for the masses.
Sadly your math is off... too many people have discovered opioids.
I'm the former👹
@@yuriakahumanity I’ve always associated Budweiser with white trash and beer bellies. No thanks
@@robertjamesonmusic you would be right
From, "King of Beers" to "Drag Queen of Beers."
😂😂😂
Stealing another man's comment or remixing another comment is just sad. Dont be a drag, just be a queen.
Stealing another man's comment or remixing another comment is just sad. Don't be a queen, get rid of drag
Strange how straight men seem obsessed with how other men want to dress.
@@davidmikeystars Drag Queens and the like scare the hell out of simple minded people, heck life would be pretty dull if everyone was the same, to each his own.
This didn't age well. 😂
I remember back when the craft beer revolution began here on the west coast and all these micro-breweries starting popping up everywhere all within a few years. Many failed, but many have succeeded. Even my small town of less than 8,000 people has two micro-breweries. Literally every town within a 30 minute drive all have at least 1 micro-brewery and they are all fun and have their own quirks.
Failed in a sense that the breweries no longer exist in the forms they once were.
Definitely would choose to drink micro brews then the normal cheap stuff
Jimmy Carter deserves credit for the craft beer explosion.
Where you from I'm in sacramento
Forchheim a Bavarian town of 35 000 has 24 breweries. You might call some of them craft breweries due to their tiny output but most have been going for centuries.
I worked for AB for 32 years and retired end of 2021. This is one of the best videos I’ve seen relative to the changing landscape of the industry!
the heineken made in mexico tastes so much better
Celebrate Dylan 🌈 😂.
I’ll slam these Dos Equis tall cans 🤙🏾.
Bet you didn't predict that they would destroy their brand over night.
You sadly wasted 32 years of the most precious thing you have.
That aged well didn't it.
A chain bar/restaurant called Old Chicago always had about 30 beers on tap and you could order about twice the variety in bottles or cans. It was always fun to go and try a new beer... especially seasonal beers like Oktoberfest.
The issue here is that these beers made by Budweiser are inferior. These beers are made with cheap ingredients and over the past 50 or so years snuffed out micro-breweries. When one tastes a micro-brewed beer there is no coming back. imagine if the only hamburger you ate was the basic burger at Mcdonald's (not the Big Mac, but the one patty thing). Imagine that being the only burger you taste for decades. Imagine now tasting a steakhouse burger with the best ingredients. That's what craft beer is like. Once Micro-breweries started proliferating in the 2000's company's like Molson and Budweiser would lose in profit. Greed can only go so far. These big beer companies only have themselves to blame for their market decline, not the consumers who want a better beer.
It's a good point. But to take it a step further, the big breweries have been buying up the small breweries like made and many of them have just quietly gone by the wayside as a result. Or they grow them and dilute their quality.
Idk. I like craft brews just as much as the next guy. But those can get pricey. Also, sometimes I just want an unfussy beer. Budweiser and High Life are great when you don't feel like something complicated. That, and I like Budweiser and High Life anyway.
they missed a lot in this video. Younger people are less likely to drink or drink less than older people in general. If they drink they are more likely to drink white claws.
Budweiser and Beers like it are TERRIBLE but Sam Adams never got Beer right until the stole the Pete's Wicked "Summer" Recipe. Taste never matters to people wanting to belong
Great beer in Spain ua-cam.com/video/-mkKpt481Do/v-deo.html
It’s not about the brand it’s about the beer and the good times. Drink what you like and enjoy yourself.
This aged well 😂
Those beers are relics from a time when using all barley malt wasn’t feasible, so corn and rice were used. They don’t impart a lot of flavor to a beer, and the American public got used to that. But now that there are so many craft breweries making excellent beer, we are seeing people (re)discover what “real beer” is like, and they’re not going back!
Technically the corn and more specifically the rice were used to produce Budweiser because quality barley malt was not available in the U.S. and the barley that was used made the beer cloudy. The corn and rice was used to clarify the beer to make it look more like the beers in Germany. In the long run it helped the company because adjunct grains are much cheaper.
Nicely said
ABInBev beer is easy drinking beer for people who don’t like there beer super bitter
@@dustmybroom288 there are countless examples of beers that aren’t bitter at all and are still much higher quality than Budweiser, so that ain’t it 😎
@@dustmybroom288 if you want sweeter beer, get the really dark brown, almost black ones. They are made with deeply roasted barely that develop a sweet caramelized flavor. If you want sweeter, there are craft beers infused with honey of fruit.
Beer gets bitter from the hops used, most prominent in IPA, and the double IPA.
It’s great to see all the smaller breweries who care deeply about their craft out there winning against big beer. I have a few breweries local to me and it really is that much better than the pee in a can big beer sells.
In my country there are so many free house pubs that knock out the delightful local fare you can take it easy all day in the same spot it's easy on the stomach and easy on the head the next day.
Mass produced German, Belgian and American "beer" takes 2 days to shake off produced to put idiots south of the river in 4 pints.
Budweiser is shitp!ss.
It’s crazy you really see the raise and fall of beer with Steven Austin almost a perfect line of slope
I agree. I can’t believe they didn’t bring up the fact that Budweiser is just much worse beer than craft breweries make
who wants an oatmeal goosehead double stout on a hot summer day?......the macros have their place and always will.
nothing worse than a beer snob
Headache in a bottle. I am not from the U.S and always thought our 5 sec fermented beer was bad, then i had your Bud and it's variants.
Craft beer has been around in my country for 35 odd years. When it was like wine makers, we just had beer makers.
Then you go to Germany and at the dawn of time every little village has its own been maker...heaven.
Before it was cool and attracted weird people.
Lies again? 10 Olympic Medals Tiger Beer
We’ve had craft beer for longer than 35 years here on the US.
Gives me a headache, also 😅
@@zzzz-sf5lr Like Lead Pipe...Red Stripe, next day you feel as if some one bashed your head with a lead pipe.
@udxpierre exactly, it's pounding! Lol
Other brands sold by the company include: The Michelob brands; Natural Light and Natty Daddy; Cass; Castle; Corona; Harbin; Estrella Jalisco; Aguila; Beck’s; Stella Artois; Jupiler; Kona; Leffe; Landshark Lager; Modelo; Presidente; Hoegaarden; Labatt; Hurricane; Rolling Rock; Skol; Johnny Appleseed; Shock Top; and Quilmes.
Other brands that partner with Anheuser-Busch include:
10 Barrel Brewing; Appalachian Mountain; Blue Point; Breckenridge Brewery; Cisco Brewers; Devils Backbone; Elysian; Four Peaks; Golden Road; Goose Island; Karbach Brewing; Omission Balanced Brewing; Platform Beer Company; Red Hook; Square Mile Cider Company; Veza Sur Brewing; Nirture Cider; Wicked Weed Brewing; Widmer Brothers Brewing; Wynwood Brewing; Hi Ball Energy; Babe; Nutrl; Cutwater Spirits; and Ritas.
Thanks for the list. Won't be supporting any of these brands with my business in the future.
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Dumb scamming bots
Or maybe it’s because people tire of cheap quality beer, especially after trying premium/craft. In my own case, I prefer to drink less but spend on higher quality and newer flavours.
So i'm not the only one who goes "beer shopping" and spending waaaay too much time at the craft cooler oogling all the different offerings...after just popping in to grab a few of my"favourite"..."OoO THIS is new! Ooooo! this one too!, Oh! cool graphics too!
People have gotten used to over priced terrible craft beer. Beer that hasn’t had a tested recipe and sells out before the brewery notices nobody liked it. It’s a shame we might loose these great cheap beers.
@@rootvalley2 Whomever it was that sold the public on idea that "over-hopped" equated to "well-made, gourmet, high-end, and/or nuanced" should be dragged in the street and beaten until they admit they couldn't make a drinkable lager or pilsner.
Now and then I might buy craft or a foreign beer, but I always fall back on the tried and true Bud and Bud Light
@@bufordhighwater9872 over hopped to you. It's a matter of personal taste. Plenty of good craft lagers and pilsners too.
Anyone wanting to boycott them better watch this whole thing. They own a lot of brands.
This aged like a fine wine.
One of the best, tastiest beers I ever drank was a Budweiser. However, I was in the Czech Republic at the time, and their Budweiser has nothing in common with the American version other than the name. The Czech brewery that makes the original Budweiser was established in the 1300’s, and they sold the rights to use the Budweiser name to Adolphus Busch (ca 1870’s). Busch simply liked the name and thought it would give his inferior product cache. The only proviso was that Busch wouldn’t sell his product in Europe and the original Budweiser would no longer be sold in America, which it previously had been since the 1870’s. If you can find it, the original Budweiser is available in the US under the name Czechvar.
Czechvar is definitely a great pick up if you can find it!
I had some Budvar a few decades back.
@@alfonsomunoz4424 sadly it is near impossible to find now.
Oh I just saw it the other day at grocery store here in San Antonio (HEB). Might need to give it a try.
It was 4 half litre cans for 10.48 without tax
@@espben360 try an ice cold one when that Texas summer hits and you will thank me.
Budweiser is like McDonalds, it's blandness makes it generic in a difficult to love, but also difficult to hate way. I haven't visited McDonalds in decades.
True. Whenever offered one, I still crack one open. Just wouldn't buy it.
It's so expensive now, a meal is over $11 these days.
It's delicious
@@paddington1670 like $15+ in Ontario
@@paddington1670 Double quaterpounder, large menu, sauce, coke. 11 euro.
Queen of beers new trademark
The power of the consumers. Please learn from this. We are not cattle nor sheep.
After trying dozens of craft beers from a local liquor store/deli, I began crafting my own from recipes and recipe kits available online. There is no beer you cannot recreate similarly at home. And the satisfaction you get from your friends and relatives eagerly awaiting your next brew is priceless.
Start a beer class.
Agreed Gary. I own a homebrew store here in Pa. I had an ROTC professor stop in one day, interested in brewing. He had spent 20 years in the air force and lived 1/2 block from Bitburger Brewery. He wanted to know if he couylkd brew that. I had a book here with the recipe. Helearned to brew and tinkered with the recipe and he now brews a very close match. It's a lot of fun and then you get to drink it. Cheers!
Yeah, "eagerly awaiting" getting shitfaced cheap or free is gonna happen :)
I have made really good wine before and I am thinking about trying to make an IPA.
Hipster idiots
In a Chicago bar many years back, a group of German tourists came in. The waitress giggled, as she went past, because they had ordered nine Budweisers. I did wonder if they'd said "Nein Budweiser!" and she'd misunderstood. As for the taste, I would guess it's something along the lines of how Americans are so used to American chocolate that they can't tell how poor it is.
No it’s not like that at all. The reason Bud was popular is because it was cheap. You knew what you were getting into with Bud but the price was right at the time.
What this video doesn't explain for Americans is that in the US ABIBEV does not own the right to Corona and Modelo, two brands that have been growing, while they do own Corona and Modelo around the world, not the case in the US due to that merger that made them ABIBEV, the US justice department made them sell those rights due to antitrust requirements and a company called Constellation Brands own the US rights for those two brands which are doing well here in the US.
Because Corona was bought by SAB from South Africa for years, the brand had certain region agreements, when InBev bought out SAB the agreement stood
so corona is no longer mexican? 😮
@@CarlosRivera-cg4cs it is still Mexican, they are still brewing in Mexico, they wouldn't be able to command premium price if they were brewing it in the US. They are importing it, Constellation bought some of the Mexican breweries and built new breweries there as well.
@@CarlosRivera-cg4cs still is was just owned by SAB Miller
Yup the Latin beers are rising because of their branding and more hispanicé in usa
Craft brewery’s are king now!! Love seeing small business start to take over 🎉🎉😊
I love burnt pubic hair beers i have a messenger bag
Almost…well actually no…not close yet
I don’t love cheap watery beers but I’m not fond of craft beers either- they seem to be putting as much stuff in them ingredient wise as they can - I don’t like them
Many are owned by Budweiser or Miller
They are restrict in Thailand by stupid law. Pretty sad.
The beers under the Anheuser Bush label, Budweiser, Kona Brewing Company, Michelob Ultra, Stella Artois, Estrella Jalisco, Busch Beer, Landshark, Presidente, HoeGaarden, Natural Light, Shock Top. If you're worried about sinking an American Company
Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, commonly known as AB InBev, [2][3] is a Belgian multinational drink and brewing company based in Leuven, Belgium.
Thanks for telling us who the parent company is, will avoid their other brands.
DRINK AB BEERS
Back in the day in College, my roomies and I were big fans of beer... we sent a sample of Budweiser to the chemistry lab to be analyzed. The results confirmed that our horse had diabetes.
Let's go baby
lmao
Oh, I get it I see what you did there. That was very clever dad.
An oldie but goodie!
I live in Texas and the beers I always see at parties and gatherings are Corona, Modelo, and Dos Equis. Its really rare seeing Budweiser.
You must not hang with white people then lmao. I’m Hispanic and my wife is white. Her family just drinks Bud Light and Coors.
Jeffrey Dahmer like Budweiser me I like Coors banquet like Johnny Lawrence
In La Pryor, TX all I see is Budlight.
@@rubenavila2274 That’s by Eagle Pass. I thought everyone there would drink Coronas and Modelos lmao.
@@dlazo32696 All the garbage cans at the local parks are completely full of Budlight cans.
Not a beer drinker (anymore) ..... However ...... I ❤ LUV ❤ those ❤Clydesdales ❤
I miss Spuds Mackenzie! He was a better icon for Bud Light than the most recent "spokesperson"
The rise of Craft and Spanish Beers are to thank for this. Literally. I never knew how bad Bud products were until I started tasting different beers that weren’t “American”.
spanish beers are awful and most are owned by anheuser-busch. German beer is the only good beer because of their purity laws
I gave up on Bud over 25 years ago, the only beer that gave me a headache and made me feel sick while I was drinking it, that's supposed to happen the day after 😁
Why u smiling then?
Made me spit out right after tasting it🤮. Craft is always the way to go.
Right. Same with Bush. I switched to a TX beer Frio, usually the light. No headaches. I drink Radlers so the light is great. Their 6.0 is good as well
Bud was also the only beer that gave me a headache the same day. But it was very popular at kegger parties in the '80s/'90s that we had or went to.
@@Jack-Surreal_Panes Frio is gross as well.
The rise of the craft beer industry is taking over and more popular in these times
That will crash with the economy.
@@andybaldman doubt it if anything people are out consuming more during these hard times
@@andybaldmanwhen the economy crashed booze n drugs is what we want more of lmaooo
@@seankelly378 A great recipe for controlling people from a corporate perspective is to make them miserable, then give them extra money. They will go out and spend it on self-medication, in many forms.
Right, people actually want to taste beer the way it was originally intended to taste. Not yellow hard seltzer.
In St. Louis they have some pretty good large scale local brands. People only drink bud or bud light at the game, for beer pong, or bringing a case to a party that everyone is okay to grab and drink without feeling like you are stealing someone’s special beer.
Budweiser isn’t beer, it’s more like lemonade. Budvar Budweiser on the other hand is a drink to behold.
I started drinking beer as a teenager and I figured out pretty quickly about beer quality. I came to refer to "Bud" as headache beer. The flavor is so so but later on you feel like you were poisoned. I switched to Corona when it got cheap enough.
i switched to Corono during the pandemic. I drank as much as possible as a self sacrifice
There's very little difference between all the cheap beers, mainly water. You're experiencing the placebo effect. On a seperate note it still blows my mind how many idiots drink wheat in a can when seltzer is available.
I can’t believe there is a market for alcoholic carbonated water
@@pewpewpew2325 I feel like we should be best friends.
@@JT.962
>Slanders beer as "mainly water"
>Drinks Seltzer
Only REAL reason why those beer sales went down because craft beer been getting bigger & bigger (better)
Precisely. Supporting local and better tasting beer!
@@reedro77 damm right!
Great beer in Spain ua-cam.com/video/-mkKpt481Do/v-deo.html
Love me anIPA!
You are right. They are no longer the “King” of beers. They are the “Queen” of beers!
So telling how this DISHONEST video INTENTIONALLY left out one of the MAJOR REASONS why BUD is NO LONGER a favorite beer, especially in the US, their insistence on trying to be the beer with the "W😢OKEST" FOLKESTS & their abysmal handling of a MARKETING DISGRACE. Hurt their own bottom line & well as all their distributors, especially the smaller ones. INBEV deserves to go bankrupt. Good Riddance!!
Happiest UA-camr right now.
Sounds like things have come full circle. Pre-WW1, beer was a city drink, and perishable, so people mostly drank local brews. Then after prohibition and nationwide television advertising, a small number of brands dominated the markets, crowding out what was left of most smaller local brewers. Then the major beers cut corners on ingredients in a race to the bottom to win some shareholder passing contest. Meanwhile craft and micro brews popped up. Suddenly Bud, Miller, and Coors were no longer such appetizing options. So now we're back to where no one brand dominates the market.
Which is fine. Beer is one of those potables that a lot of people like, but there's no real consensus on any singular favorite style or flavor.
The beer companies were forced to use cheaper ingredients at the time because of the World War. Barley was being used for the war effort and wasn't readily available for beer making. The beer companies never switched back. It wasn't done for money, but it was kept because of money.
@@curtzeek8818 oh. I was actually talking a few decades later, when Schlitz cheaped out. And around the time when Miller brewed Lowenbrau, but allegedly cut the mash with corn grits, against their agreement with the Bavarian brewer.
And then the light beer trend may not have been auspiciously to save brewers money for beer they could charge the same amount for, but no doubt they didn’t mind the trend.
@@75aces97 I agree. Miller drove Lowenbrau into the groud. That is why they pulled the brewing back to Munich. After they pulled it back, their advertising stated that the beer was now " Brewed in Munich". Coors lt and Miller lt are priced high to pay for all their advertising.
@@curtzeek8818 it was funny, but growing up, Lowenbrau was one of those beers that got advertised a lot, but I didn't know anybody who liked it. By the time I was an adult it was a punchline of a beer. Then when I went to Munich I had a beer called the same name, not knowing whether it was the same thing. Logo looked the same, but it tasted okay, so nothing like what I remembered of the American version.
Did Lowenbrau pull out elsewhere in the world? Back in the 1970s and 80s, they formed out their name to various countries that made and sold with their label. Obviously they pulled the plug with Miller, but I wonder if other foreign brewers pulled similar shenanigans.
@@75aces97 I don't know any other brewers that they were contracted with. I think they learned their lesson with Miller.
Once you try a Belgian beer there's no going back to the usual watery options, unless in specific situations - at the beach or in a desert.
Truth
Anything with the word light (regardless of how it's spelled) in the name is fake beer.
i tried over 15 beer types in belgium of their 80 yummy but best i ever had was shutzengarten in switzerland was 16% alc YUMMY too.
i tried 100's of beer types on 3 continents Duvel in belgium is one i remember because of the name, Grolsch in holland shutzengarten in switzerland YUM tsing tsao chinese and the one in taiwan had particles floating in it was sketchy but ok, fosters heiniken stella atois etc etc.. BUD was one of the grossest tasting i ever tried.
My favorite beer of all time is a brand called Grimbergan, made in Belgium, I had when I was in France. It was a rich, but easy drinking blonde ale and really hit the spot on those 40C hot days
This is the truest post I’ve ever read. Make mine a Tripel
I'm lucky to live in Western NC, we have a lot of local craft breweries. It's difficult to compete against local breweries as it's cheaper (Sometimes) and seems to have better flavor. I've also always been told to buy local, as that is what helps the economy most...
This aged well!
I’ll drink enough Budweiser this weekend to make them the king again
I like your style.
@@awesomedudesinc cheers brother
They still cant keep 2 pallets for more than a couple days at state line up here. Working men still love their budwiezer
🤢
Budweiser has it's advantages. It's a good way to ease in for those who drink beer at all.
50 years ago in Australia the market was dominated by 2 producers. In the modern era, the local "craft beers" have gained favor. There is no longer an "us and them" gig. Now we have a dozen to choose from.
It's the opposite in the UK. There has always been lots of small local beer producers, especially in real ale and cider, but nowadays the larger generic brands are most popular.
@@Jabberstax In the US, kirin, sapporo, abinbev, duvel, etc have been buying larger privately owned regional craft breweries. Sad to see.
I love trying new beers. I checked AB InBev's beers and realized I haven't bought them in a while. Their beers, especially lite beers, are too watered down (weak taste) with extra carbonization for compensation (but feels like little knives stabbing my tongue).
@@noob.168 Not that many actually. It's happened, but it's rare.
@@curtzeek8818 We had a popular brewer in Virginia Devil's Backbone, had a big hit with their Vienna Lager. Bought out by ABInBev. That was a big deal. So the question is does their VL stay exactly the same? I overheard once someone saying "the first thing they cut is the hops" Haven't had one in a while, loved it at first, not so much more recently but that could be my own tastes moving around.
Here in the UK local breweries are making some amazing beers. Times are changing for the industry!
*This video aged extremely well* 😂
I worked in R&D for Anheuser-Busch. It was fun but the upper level people are so out of touch. They're so obsessed with low sugar/low carb for all new brands and tbh nobody cares. Bud Light Next (0 carb beer) took 10 years of development and hundreds of millions of dollars but it was on discount racks within a month of being released bc it just isn't good
I lost the taste for beer about 10 years ago. Funny how I don’t miss it. Budweiser regular was my favorite, but I only drank beer on weekends when I didn’t have to go to work. One has to have a plan so that the drinking doesn’t control you, but you can control it. Not easy, but it can be done!
Try real Budweiser from Budějovice, not this cheap knock off
When did the Aryan brotherhood get into the beverage industry 😂
I wish that everyone had my "problem". A six pack can last me months, liquor and wine the same. "Craft beer spoils" you say? Yup! My only drinking "problem" and I'll take it!
Bravo 👏
Bwahaha you never drank beer then. Budweiser is an American light lager and in the description is supposed to be almost flavorless. Some just don't access to IPAs, Stouts, Porters, Sours, real Lagers, etc..
Greetings from Canada. My favorite beers are Molson Canadian, Banks (Caribbean beer), Witchwood Brewery's Hobgoblin, Coors Banquet & Alexander Keith.
well, since they were wondering whether to keep their traditional blue collar roots or not, I think at this point April 16th, 2023 they may have found their answer in their transvestite debacle. very informative video on how things were before they committed brand suicide...
oh and lets not forget the elephant in the room now, what's up with the CIA agent CEO? what's going on with that huh...
It’s no longer an American beer. When they did the hostile take over of Anheuser-Busch, Americans lost pride in their beer company. Microbrewery’s are making a much higher quality beer and are focused on being proudly owned in America and we’re loyal to our country and beer.
I've never tasted a good quality beer. They're all gross tasting. Only people that think beer is good is alcoholics.
“It’s no longer an American beer”
“Americans lost pride in their beer company.
No. No and no. I’ve heard some dumb things this year but this is at the very top. Dodge is owned by an Italian holding company. Is Dodge an Italian car? Manchester United is owned by an American. Is Manchester United an American club? Bud and Bud Light are American beers.
@@cwg73160dodge vehicles are certainly built like an Italian vehicle.
Nah bruh it’s pisswater and always has been
I'll stick with my Guinness
Beer will never go away. It has been around since the Stone Age. There’s nothing better than ice cold brew on a hot summer day.
Not a Budweiser!
The QUEEN of beer !!
Budweiser has become the Queen of beer!!!
I talked about this with coworkers not but a few hours ago. Beer and wine are increasing in price, whiskey isn't going up at the same rate, perhaps the time required to produce is going to affect the price of whiskey in 5 years but it doesn't explain other quicker to consumer spirits like vodka and gin staying relatively low compared to beer and wine price hikes.
Bingo, as a category V functioning alcoholic I can say that price has an enormous amount to do with it. A few years ago Budweiser was my go-to beer (to you beer connessuers out there, please understand it was just a palate cleanser and an alcohol delivery system to me lol) because the price was good for the quality. Now a 24 oz can of Budweiser or Bud Light costs more than a damn Four Loko, in fact Four Lokos are the one beverage that cost *less* than they did a couple years ago! Crazy stuff. So now when I really wanna drink, I'll just get a pint of Evan Williams as it gets me drunker, quicker, for way less money than a 12 pack of Budweiser.
I can't speak for the other, more complex reasons that Budweiser is losing business, but from the perspective of a formerly-loyal customer, the price is now kinda outrageous.
@Mark Davis ESPECIALLY Evan Williams 1783. That one's an outstanding bargain.
That just means the increase in cost is transportation-related. Beer and wine are more costly to physically move, per drink
@Mark Davis Evan Williams !!! All of them are good
Pa always one of them on sale
@@chilliecheesecake Try Ezra Brooks
I use to love the bud bowl during the Super Bowl when I was a kid.
Corona Extra and Modelo Especial are both owned by Constellation Brands, which has supported a number of LGBTQ+ events. The brand partnered with Stonewall Sports, which promotes LGBTQ+ participation, and in 2020 scored a top 100 score on the 2020 Corporate Equality Index for LGBTQ equality.
I'm drinking a Budweiser rn on a train in Shanghai haha. Was curious how Bud was doing.
STOCK WAY UP, BOYCOTT FAIL
there are at least twenty very good breweries within a thirty-minute drive of my house, if you live in any major city in the United States your choice of high-quality, fresh, local beer is greater than ever.
I visited Wilmington, North Carolina a few months ago and was amazed at how many breweries there was. I think there was about 15-20 just in the city.
@@michaelfigueroa5734 16 if you want an exact number lol
I love Budwiser, the original one from the Czech Republic
Now the Queen of beers
Their decisions this week are sure to help 😅🤣
As a person who has worked at local breweries open breweries and a home brewer I'm always encouraging people to try local beer. The taste is better, you know what is in the ingredients and quite a few breweries grow their own hops and barely. Myth is that local beer is too heavy and too strong. I've made plenty of ales with lower than 5% lower than 4%. Very easy to drink approachable ales and lagers.
I stopped drinking Budweiser 4 years ago when i went to Dallas was at a Mexican rodeo. they were drinking michelob ultra and corona other stuff, i was the only one drinking budweiser. after that tried out other beers and never went back.
Believe it or not they all taste like beer. It's like drinking root beer. They all taste pretty much the same. lol
Nothing is better than a home brew beer! I can’t go back to those big brand beers anymore!
Nothing beat a nice cold Schlitz on the drive home after a hard day of work!
Idk man. Budweiser for me is synonymous with America, rock and roll, the 80s, and country. I feel like it’s so american that it’ll never die.
As a Salesman for an AB distributor I can tell you for a fact it’s true. Too many different variety of brews to choose from, also the new RTD’s Vodka based seltzers is growing but also price increase every year has caused the consumer to hold back on buying … honestly is just the way the world is moving towards something else
This aged really well
The Cuckold of beers
A native St. Louisen here. I was young when InBev bought AB. I remember the amount of layoffs affecting many families, it appeared to be very consequential. InBev not only destroyed the beer, they also eradicated the AB culture. I have in-laws who are made their careers at AB, the stories they have told me seem like the culture was decent, good perks for the 20th century. Now I know people who have sales accounts with AB and they have said it's awful. The culture and families AB helped here in St. Louis are gone and so is my respect.
I say that still being a big Michelob Ultra fan, they still got me.
I agree it is somewhat similar here why I live, close to Williamsburg, Virginia. AB was a key part of the community, our amusement park is Busch Gardens, because the brewery is right across the street. Before the merger, the horses were called the Budweirser Clydesdales & you could tour the brewery as a part of the park.
AB even built a great golf course here that was on a course on the PGA & LPGA tour. It's hard to sell that all-American brand if the brand is . . .Belgian
Was at the Llywelyns in Soulard the day it was announced. It felt sad.
i still blame the stupid busch kid's that sold out
AB STOCK IS WAY UP
I'm a long-time craft beer drinker. I drank my first craft beers in the mid-90s. So, the 2000s-2010s explosion of the industry has been wonderful to me. As our kids (gen-z) grew older and entered high school, I would explain IPAs vs porters vs Belgians, and so forth. I figured when they got to college they would be on top of the trends. Well, turns out my son catches hell from his friends for being an "IPA bro" while they all drink whiteclaw or whatever. Gen-z man, so weird. lol
I am old soul, for 24. Porters all day, everyday.
Youth and freedom, they go for binge drinking (high volume) and drinking games, instead of sitting down and enjoying the flavour (and conversation).
@@thepatriarchy819 Also 24, but I love all types of beer. Part of the fun! I love how trader joe's sells single without upcharge and every night I get to open one wondering what it will taste like.
@@noob.168 don't get me wrong I love trying new beers but if I show up to a bar or I'm sitting at home with friends I'm grabbing a porter 75% of the time.
IPA all the way !
From what I see it's more like the Queen of beers
I only have two words New Coke
I'm a Publix liquor manager at Lilburn, Georgia and I was talking to our Coors vendor and he said that he worked 12 hours yesterday because he couldn't stock the shelves fast enough from people buying his companies beer like crazy at all the stores he stocks for. Meanwhile most of the AB products have barely moved on our shelves, I feel really bad for the AB vendors because they're nice guys who don't deserve what their company has done to them but I am glad that people are pushing back against this agenda being shoved down our throats everywhere we turn.
Good news 👏 👍
Coors is every bit as woke as assweiser
The problem isnt just "woke " beer. Its corporate-multinational grocery store beer owned by global investors, who only care about shareholders and corporate profits, not beer. Dylan Mulvany just proved it
Americans have finally discovered good tasting beer. It took a few decades but better late than never. 👍
And a lot of crappy tasting IPA micro brews everywhere.
@@yodaisgod2nonsense chocolate malt IPA all the way!
younger people are less likely to drink in general nowadays. Alcohol sucks and in NA there is a much cheaper, widely available and better option than alcohol.
Crazy has Budweiser figured this out overseas because their European Sold Budweiser is absolutely nothing like the American garbage!
Great beer in Spain!!! ua-cam.com/video/-mkKpt481Do/v-deo.html
Before Budweiser was an Anheuser-Busch trademarked brand the word meant any beer brewed like beer was brewed in the city of Budweis, Bohemia. Many breweries made budweiser beers. I have a Miller Brewing Budweiser bottle in my collection. I also have an E Anhueser bottle from before his son-in-law, Adolphus Busch, joined the company.
Budweiser was copied from a beer over there, and I don't mean a beer with rice or corn. Back then Bud was brewed from barley. The world war forced brewers to look for other fermentables and that is when rice and corn became widely used.
It's the Queen of Beers
Thank you for an informative video
im happy that society is learning and moving away from the dangers of alcohol.
I love an ice cold Bud draft from a clean tap system 👌
Me too
Was this video really made right before the move that caused ABI to suffer a huge loss? That's funny. Now we need part two.
AB STOCK BOOMING, BOYCOTT FAILURE
Go woke Go broke.
WOKE IS GOOD, LOOK IT UP
The best beer bush ever made was the signature copper lager from a few years ago. It was the cheapest brew on the market until it was discontinued, but fans have been hoping it would be reintroduced as a premium, higher priced beer.
Yes that Jim beam lager was great. I bought as many cases as I could when they were out.
Michelob Amber Bock is also not bad. Not sold everywhere...but its still out there..somewhere
One of the main things that upset me after the InBev purchase was that they started charging to tour the main brewery and hq here in the Lou. I am not even a beer drinker but it is still very cool and worth the couple bucks it cost now, make sure to check it out while in StL! :]
How much do they charge? When I lived there it was free, you got to see some horses, and you got free beer. I thought man if I were I hobo, I would would hit this up all day.
@@alanprather8399 It's only like $5 for kids and $10 for adults or something. So like I said definitely worth it; I just feel like Budweiser wouldn't have started charging for the tour if they hadn't been bought out. (Yes you still get a free drink too :P)
The standard tour is still free but there are cost options, like day fresh beer and a museum add on.
Dylan Mulvaney just solidified their decline 😂
I literally can look out my window and see a micro brewery. It's called Mash Craft and they are just fabulous brewers. They only sell their own beers in their places. It's fun to sit at the bar and look through the glass walls at the guys brewing the next batch. They do about a dozen or so flavors. The red stout is my fave, but they have odd combinations that surprise me. Coffee infused beer, orange flavored, etc. I will get a flight of 4 small glasses to try out some different brews once in a while. I haven't had a Budweiser in years.
My dad and father in-law still love Coors Light and Bud Light respectively, so I keep them at my house but almost never drink them myself. I love going to the package store and trying different local craft beers.
Coors light/Bud light is like fancying a nice juicy t-bone steak, and then going to McDonald's for the cheapest burger option on the savers menu.
This aged well lol
And now Dylan Mulvaney is their spokesman…😳
You couldn't pay me enough to drink a Bud nowadays.
I get that but I had a fresh bottle in Missouri where it was locally made and it did not have those offensive cheap beer tastes so it was fine. A lot of those cheap beers have to stay fresh or it will taste offensive
But-why-sir?
It’s water
So for 4 Million dollars, you would not drink 1 budweiser? I call BS.
Once bud sold to someone outside of the US I decided to start buying local wheat beers and some pilsners along with some premium German beers but not often
This aged like fine wi….. like a warm opened bud light.
I hope they enter my country's domestic market ( Costa Rica) its unbelieaveable, we pay $11 for a local beer 6pack whereas a 12pack of Budweiser in USA is about the same
Bud Light was my favorite ever since I started but when AB was sold they went with cheaper ingredients, taking shortcuts to save a penny, and ruined the beer.
Bud light was ALWAYS just a watered-down version of Budweiser. You just didn't know it.
@@csnide6702 And Budweiser was always just a watered-down version of real beer
@@mikea5745 Pshhh I rather just drink wort.
@@noob.168 When I go to sporting events and that's all they have to offer then I'll just drink water. I'll never pay for that so called beer.