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- KyleRayner, on 10/12/2007, -6/+68"Simply put, Germans hate Budweiser. Weeks before the inaugural games kicked off the Cup, Germans were furious at the prospect of having to drink what they refer to as "dishwater" at stadiums."
""Human dignity is inviolable," reads the Web site, quoting the German constitution. The Web site goes on to call Budweiser "an insult to all true beer lovers" and an "insult to your tongue.""
Absolutely hilarious! Hey, when youre right, youre right. I always look for an opportunity to tell this joke: American beer is like having sex in a canoe. Its f**king close to water. - gronne, on 10/12/2007, -2/+42I refuse to drink Budweiser and I'm in the USA.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31self proclaimed "King of Beers"
Anyone who knows anything about beer knows that budweiser just sucks. - jboi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26here we go
Miller + Budweiser decide (secretly) to find out forever, which beer
is the NO 1 TASTE IN THE US. So they send in anonymous nonlabeled beer
samples to the best laboratory in the world.
Secret conference: theprofessor picks up a bulk of paper, and starts "Basically,...". He is stopped
rudely, and the two bosses say: Just give us Your final report.
Well, says the professor: BOTH HORSES HAVE DIABETES. - MattLat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Here's to microbreweries - giving beer a good name.
- elamr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20I didn't like beer until I went to Stutgart, Germany and had beer
- Tarantulus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Budwieser is what rednecks piss after too much cheap bourbon
- CosmosGoddess, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Well I don't blame them, it's their country that is hosting the World Cup. They should have a German beer for sale. Not the American Anheuser-Busch who spent 40 million to have the rights.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I can't say I blame the Germans. We hate that crap here in America too! But everyone knows the best beers come from Belgium. ;)
I'm a HUGE fan of Koningshoeven Trappist Ale. - npinski, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14even americans who know their ass from their elbow when it comes to beer don't drink budweiser.
Here in canada we love to claim that "american beer sucks" and yet the small microbrewery stuff in the states is as good as any. Get me some Arrogant Bastard ale any day! ;)
But it's the same with ANY "big-market" beer. Budweiser is one of the worst american beers. Molson Canadian is one of the worst canadian beers. Heineken is one of the worst german beers. Stella Artois is one of the worst belgian beers. This is all my opinion of course - and i actually love Stella out of all of those. But the smaller breweries always have a better product. - dizzley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11We're sorry too. Can you get treatment for that?
- halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15The German hatred of American Budweiser runs deeper than the quality of the beer.
Budweiser US was founded by a German immigrant to the US. He stole the name of a (then) 100 plus year old brewery and used a slightly altered slogan when he started up in the US. The German Budweiser, "The Beer of Kings" was the subject of a buyout attempt by the American Budweiser "The King of Beers" a few years ago. A legal battle and public uproar ensued as the German government was considering legislation to block the sale.
It seems trademark infringement laws meant the only way Budweiser US could sell beer in Germany was to use a different name or to buy the German company.
In the end, Bud US agreed to drop the attempt to buy the German company, if they were allowed to sell beer in German under the Budweiser name. Contracts were signed and a deal was stuck.
And now, after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, the Germans are finding their local Budweiser replaced with the American "Lemonaid." This is about ten years after a national movement to keep the American beer out of the country, where it was trying to eradicate a local brewery to do so.
I imagine the Germans see Budweiser US the same way many Americans see Wal-Mart, a corporate Borg out to destroy the local businesses in the name of uniform mediocrity. - rnelsonee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10It's not Germany's choice, it's FIFA's. And just like every other corporation out there, exclusivity can be purchased if a company has enough money. But I do feel bad for the Germans - Bud sucks, and beer from that part of the world is the best.
Too bad the Reinheitsgebot (purity law) has been amended so many times - as TFA states, it was actually illegal to sell Bud in Germany until the early 1990's because Budweiser uses ***** like corn as a source of fermentable sugar in their beer (little to no flavor, but adds alcohol) - a sixteenth-century law limited fermentable grains to barley and wheat. - elamr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11MGD = tree bark + water
Heineken = bitter bark
Coors = ass
Bud = ass lite
Bud lite = tolerable
While in Germany I had something everyone was called "Crystal Vyson" (sorry, my german is non existant). After Crystal Vyson, I realized why germans love beer so much... they have mastered and refined it. You see, up to that point all the so called "beer" I had tasted was like reconstitued piss in a 40oz.. not that I know what Urine tastes like but I bet it tastes like most American beer. - domr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Interesting - except Budweiser is Czech, not German.
- Butros, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"Heineken is one of the worst german beers." Um... Didn't we take Holland away from Germany after WW2?
- sohyphy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Germans truly do make great beer when the worst German beer is actually Dutch
- IrishmanVT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Heineken is Dutch buddy, get the facts straight.
- ryanchristopher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Hey, shiner bock is a damn good beer and it's made in the US.
- powpow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Wrong. After you drink good beer around the world, you realize that Bud and Miller Lite etc. really are bad beers.
- LudicrousSpeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I can sympathize with the Germans... try attending an MLB game in the US and paying $7 for a lousy 12 oz. plastic cup of this dishwater!
- BobbyOnions, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11I worked in Stuttgart for a few months. Loved it.
Noch ein bier bitte!
Ein mass vom vass bitte!
Dinkel Acker ist zehr gut!
Apologies to 80,000,000 Germans for my horrible German :D - MattLat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8No suprise there. Budweiser: King of beers for rednecks. (I think it's hilarious when I hear people argue whether miller or bud is better)
Life's too precious to drink that crap. - ,,|,_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I live in Texas and people always list Shiner in the Imports category. Imported an hour and a half up the road to Austin maybe....
- securemind, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7did they really think they could sway Europeans to drink Bud? It's just no comparison to beer from Germany, and shows a good amount of arrogance (or ignorance?) on the part of Anheuser-Busch. Now, if it was "real" Budweiser, from Budvar.... ;-)
- gronne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I don't think anyone's saying American beer sucks. There are definitely some great ones. They're just saying the Macro brews like Bud, Coors, MGD suck.
- Hildy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Evian must have been disappointed to lose the water sales to Budweiser...
Wouldn't you try to curb hooliganism by serving bud and keeping the crowd sober? I'm surprised Budweiser had to pay FIFA instead of FIFA paying bud for crowd control. - Ascendant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7There are lots of good beers made in the USA- unfortunately probably none of them are big enough to afford that $40 million.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I'm going to agree with you on this one. The big two in US beer; that being Miller and Coors aren't all that great. The only 'American' Beer I'll drink is Yuengling Lagger. When it comes to other stuff Blue Moon Belgian White [a Wheat Ale] is my drink of choice.
Oh Miller would have been all over this but Man Law clearly states it shall never be in a World Cup commercial - CanuckMakem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Can't blame them.... let me think... Dortmunder Kronen or Bud??? C'mon....
- bmorrow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Why do you have to Rag on Mouthwash? It is no where near as bad a Bud.
- elamr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7That is pretty ballsy to put that American piss in land of Beer and Hasselhoff.
- Necromancyr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Hrm can't reply to second levels of posts. Anyway, just an FYI but Blue Moon is made by Coors.
Just FYI. (So they CAN make good beer, the 'majority' of American's just dont want it...) - EvlD99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7There are plenty of great American Beers such as Sam Adams, Magic Hat, Harpoon, Long Trail, etc. It's just that these breweries don't have the clout to help sponsor the World Cup.
If you haven't had good American beer, it's your own fault for not looking. - timothdd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6i personally like the fact that law had to be changed in order to sell that piss-water in germany...
- fquednau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5As a German, I can't really agree with that. It's simply sad to sell >Budweiser< in >Germany< during such an event. Period. I do hope that most guests here in germany will come to drink some of the local brews...
...I am glad and relieved, though, that many comments refer to german beer as being one of the best around! - MattLat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You should look into some of the microbrews that come out of New Glarus, Wisconsin. They've got an ale named "Spotted cow" that's absolutely wonderful.
- dcipjr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Budweiser is crap, I don't know why most Americans like it so much. Yuengling is great, and is without a doubt my domestic beer of choice (their Black & Tan is exceptional), but it's hard to get outside Pennsylvania and some of the neighboring states.
- elamr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5All this talk about beer is making me thirsty.
- cyberdork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5As far as I know it is still illegal to sell Budweiser (or Bud) in Germany, because the product name Budweiser is registered by the Czech brewery of the city of Budweis. And the name 'Bud' is too similar to the popular German beer 'Bit' (Bitburger).
The reason why they can now sell 'Bud' at the venues is that Anheuser Busch allowed the German brewery Bitburger to advertise their 'Bit' beer during the matches, and in return Bitburger won't sue them for trademark violations. - Canthros, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11Yes. They should find a German beer that will pony up the 40 million dollars instead.
- jawngee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Shiner bock is the only american beer I drink.
ALL HAIL THE SHINER BOCK. - dizzley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Heineken is NOT German it's Dutch and it's fine swaffing beer in Holland. But we must all agree that taking Bud to Germany was an insult to taste buds everywhere. Of course, I'm a biased English guy and we have, say, 200+ beers better than Bud. Come to think of it, most of our lager beers are a mile better than Bud. I have in my possession a bottle of "Bekkambrau" from the Storm Brewing co. of Macclesfield and I will be drinking it as soon as England win the World Cup. Mmm... think I might drink it if they get knocked out which is more likely. Bekkambrau is not just a joke but is a lager based beer in the German style - ideal for a bender!
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It's one monarchy that deserves to be abolished...
Mmmm. regicide... - UltraNurd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4There are tons of regional microbrews in the U.S. that are in my experience competitive in quality with some of the best Belgian and German beers. Victory (West Chester, PA) and Dogfish Head (Rehoboth, DE) are among my favorites. Their brewery tours are also quite fun.
- BobbyOnions, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4> Crystal Vyson
Kristall Weisse - literally "crystal white", meaning clear beer, typically wheat beer.
This stuff really is the stuff of the gods: kristal weisse weinstephaner
You can buy it in the UK from most big supermarkets Franziskaner weissbier is better but slightly harder to come by. - theDrizzle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4come on, who didn't see this coming. There are tons of AMERICANS who hate Budweiser...what makes you think that a place like Germany, where beer is a part of their heritage and national pride, would like it any better. not to mention that the world cup is in GERMANY and not AMERICA...so why on earth was Budweiser even allowed to be the "official beer." its an insult to Germany, and it makes them hate us more, just what we need!!!
- ccheath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4MAGIC HAT, BURLINGTON VERMONT
- dcipjr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hell, even 10% ethanol in gasoline would be better.
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