Ah yes … Budweiser … King of Rice Beers!
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Does there remain a General Question here?
I see some similarities between your POV about Budweiser and how Americans see Fosters Lager.
Budweiser is good “summer beer” – the taste isn’t that complicated, and it does a good job at quenching your thirst, but that’s about it. When I want a quick drink while mowing the lawn, I’ll be happy with a Bud. Otherwise, it’s one of the products of the excellent microbreweries in Colorado for me.
In Australia, can you get any products from American microbreweries? There’s hundreds of them, and their beers are far superior than the mass produced products from Anheuser-Busch (Budweiser), Miller, and Coors. You mgiht be able to get Sam Adams – not a true microbrew anymore, but still a good beer.
I like Bud.
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Doc, cruise on back to your grocer’s and do the following, if you please:
(1) Purchase either Henry Weinhard’s Private Reserve (aka “Hank’s”), or Samuel Adams’
then
(2) Ask him if he knows how Budweiser is made. (Answer: They feed the horse Coors.)
The best beer in the whole world is “…this one’s on (insert name here)…”
I’ve found this to be true no matter what country I’m in.
As an American who’s spent a little bit of time in Oz, I’d have to say that Budweiser is as popular here as VB is down there. Doesn’t mean it’s the best, in either case, although VB is a better beer than Bud. (Actually, the best beer I had in Australia was a porter in Tasmania which I think was local to the island.) I liked XXXX (that’s four x’s, not censorship) better than VB. If I hadn’t spent all those years in Colorado I would have liked Oz beer even more, but I got awfully spoiled by the microbrews.
Well, I’m not Australian but on my visit there several years ago I was told that one of the fastest ways to identify yourself as an American tourist was to go into a bar and order a Foster’s. (Another was to make any comment along the lines of “throw another shrimp on the barbie” or use almost any Paul Hogan quote.) The main beer where I was (dive boat off of Cairns) was “4X” or “XXXX”. Pretty good beer which I’ve never seen back home.
Or something like that.
It is a curious “fact” that beers from other countries always taste better. Budweiser has no “snob appeal” because it is mass-produced right here in the USA. For my money, though, it is a smooth and delicious beer, the best of the mass-produced, cheap beers.
An anecdote to illustrate my first point:
On a trip to Ireland, my friends and I (and the other tourists in the pubs) were drinking (of course) the locally-produced Guinness and Harp beers. We noticed, though, that a lot of bar patrons were drinking Bud. An Irish friend remarked that you could tell who the locals were. They were the ones with Budweisers in their hands.
A former Irish co-worker of mine confirmed this as well; Americans go to Ireland picturing the “charming Irish pubs” of popular imagination, and then find that the young people all frequent American-style bars. She mentioned that one thing that was turning the old pub-culture on its ear was that the young people were demanding their beer ice-cold.
Could Bud be brewed differently down under?
When I was in China it was told to me to never dring Tsing-Tao beer in China. The stuff made for export is much better then the stuff used domestically.
Perhaps a quote from an Australian friend of mine will give you a comparison to your native brews:
“Foster’s: It’s Australian for ‘Bud.’”
No.