Budweiser Brewed in Belgium?

[amicus]

Late to the dance as Anheiser-Busch was taken over in 2008 by a Belgian Corporation and thousands of people in St.Louis have lost their jobs, but still... a lot of beer drinkers love their 'Bud.'

I never did, tastes like a girls beer, light, smoky taste, I like a full headed brew, Guiness, Beck's, even Heinekins; even so, Morning Joe on MSNBC made note of it this morning and it came as news to me.

Did you know your 'Bud' was brewed in Belgium?

ami

 

[soflabbwlvr]

Late to the dance as Anheiser-Busch was taken over in 2008 by a Belgian Corporation and thousands of people in St.Louis have lost their jobs, but still... a lot of beer drinkers love their 'Bud.'

I never did, tastes like a girls beer, light, smoky taste, I like a full headed brew, Guiness, Beck's, even Heinekins; even so, Morning Joe on MSNBC made note of it this morning and it came as news to me.

Did you know your 'Bud' was brewed in Belgium?

ami

As usual, your facts are mostly wrong and your conclusion misses the mark by miles. In 2008, Belgian brewer InBev purchased Anheuser-Busch for $52 billion. The company is now called AB InBev, and it is the largest brewer in the world. It brews over 200 brands of beer, including Beck's, Stella Artois, and Budweiser. Budweiser is still brewed at various locations throughout the United States, including St. Louis, Newark, Los Angeles, Houston, Colombus, Jacksonville, and 6 other cities.

If you choose to drink Budweiser, and I don't recommend it, you are not drinking a beer brewed in Belgium.

Any jobs lost from St Louis would have been executive jobs which became redundant after the merger.

 

[R. Richard]

Back in 1876, Adolphus Busch developed a "Bohemian-style" lager, inspired after a trip to the region. Brewers in Bohemia (today's Czech Republic) generally named a beer after their town with the suffix "er." Beer has been brewed in the town of Budweis since it was founded as Budiwoyz by king Ottokar II of Bohemia in 1245. The name Budweiser is a locative, meaning "of Budweis." In most European countries American Budweiser is not labelled as Budweiser but as Bud, and the name Budweiser refers to the original Czech beer, Budweiser Budvar. The United Kingdom is the exception to this, and both companies use Budweiser there.

Budweiser, under the name Bud, is also available in Belgium and is imported by Corsendonk breweries and is distributed by Carrefour, the second largest retailer in the world.

Thus, Budweiser essentially came from Europe and now, more or less, returns to Europe.

 

[oggbashan]

In the UK beer aficionadoes make a distinction made between locally brewed beers under license from the owners, and imported beer for the same label.

Most Australian lagers used to be imported. Now most of them are brewed in the UK.

It can get silly. Some British breweries are making Indian beers for consumption in the UK and have found a market exporting them to India where they are more expensive than the locally brewed original.

Og

 

[ishtat]

The swill known as Fosters is supposed to be the iconic Aussie beer. It was in fact originally brewed by Mr Foster ...an American.

Another popular Aussie tipple Hahn was also first made and marketed by an American.

My favourite story about Fosters is that when it was first sold in Europe they were not allowed to call it beer in some countries because it contained so many additives, particularly sugar.

I was told by an Australian brewer once that most companies made a beer with a high sugar content as a means of weaning young drinkers from coke and pepsi. Can anyone confirm that?