How can Budweiser still claim to be the “great american lager”, after selling out to Inbev?

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1 Nov 2010

8 Responses to How can Budweiser still claim to be the “great american lager”, after selling out to Inbev?

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rhsaunders

October 31st, 2010 at 1:51 am

It’s still made in the US, by a US recipe. The ownership has changed, but there isn’t any reason to suppose that the beer has.

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Moonbaby

October 31st, 2010 at 2:30 am

The same way Hershey can call itself the Great American Chocolate Bar…. even after they let hundreds of staff go in one of their plants and set up production in Mexico….It’s all about advertising and the almighty dollar… I think it sucks!!!

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Eiliat

October 31st, 2010 at 3:28 am

Same way they always could, they lie. Bud has never been “great”, now they’re just lying about one extra word of their slogan.

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McCain 2008

October 31st, 2010 at 3:44 am

It’s like immigrants living the American dream. No offense to legal immigrants, after all they built this country.

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Telis Ravenlight

October 31st, 2010 at 4:18 am

I wonder that every time I see the commercial. I’m glad someone else wonders these things, too.

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Hyo K

October 31st, 2010 at 4:39 am

Against my better judgement, I’ll give you my 2 cents. Bud – great american lager – well, there’s an oxymoron.

As for the selling out. Bud did not sell out. Its a public company. No can stop anyone from buying shares of Bud or any public company. As the Busch family decided some time ago to make themselves irrelevant minority owners of Bud, they, themselves, sold out but it had nothing to do with InBev. InBev, as part owners, through their share, saw waste and incompetence and decided to take over. AB had no choice.

As for Bud’s claim to be an American beer, what’s the big deal. Chryslers own by Daimler, its still an American car. Ford owns Jaguar, GM owns Saab, Sony owns everything, hey, its a global village . . . it takes family . . . nevermind, wrong analogy, sorry.

Here’s my advice, don’t give it a second thought. Drink Coors. Or pop own a decent California Cab (check to make sure its not owned by the Japanese). By the way, at last check, Louis Jadot – that great French wine producer out of Burgundy- is owned by an American. Jadot claims to be a “great French wine.” So, it goes many different ways.

Let’s go shoot a Canadian Moose and have a Labatt’s (just kidding)

Go SP!

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Antony K

October 31st, 2010 at 5:24 am

I sympathize with you to some extent, being from Manchester England originally, inbev bought my local brew some years ago Boddingtons , which still claim to be the cream of Manchester even though inbev moved the brewing of most boddingtons brands to Wales and Glasgow.

BTW Budweiser beer sold in the UK is brewed In Kent southern England

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BudBoy88

October 31st, 2010 at 6:21 am

i dont give a damn where its made its still great and as long as they dont change the quality i dont give a damn if they call it the great afghani lager

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