Bud Light Platinum
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It?s no secret that we have ties to the craft beer industry. It doesn?t take long to figure out that craft beer lovers love to hate macro brews. In fact, it often seems that despising "the big guys" is just as important to the culture as drinking good beer. All of the industry rumors seem to identify Bud Light Platinum as a desperate attempt to appeal to craft beer drinkers. Will anything they ever make appeal to indie drinkers? We?re not sure it?s possible.
However, in an effort to be fair, we wanted to give A-B?s most recent effort a real chance. We put together a two-person tasting panel consisting of the most refined palates in our office. We also managed to keep the identity of the new brew a secret. We really wanted to know how they?d feel about Bud Light Platinum?s taste, without allowing the beer?s name or origin to skew their opinion.
Anheuser-Busch describes Bud Light Platinum as having a slightly sweeter taste and more alcohol than Bud Light. According to their third-quarter earnings report, the beer is "a trendy blue-bottle line extension that appeals to a key group of beer drinkers and expands consumer occasions."
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After they find out it's Bud they don't like it
However, in an effort to be fair, we wanted to give A-B?s most recent effort a real chance. We put together a two-person tasting panel consisting of the most refined palates in our office. We also managed to keep the identity of the new brew a secret. We really wanted to know how they?d feel about Bud Light Platinum?s taste, without allowing the beer?s name or origin to skew their opinion.
Anheuser-Busch describes Bud Light Platinum as having a slightly sweeter taste and more alcohol than Bud Light. According to their third-quarter earnings report, the beer is "a trendy blue-bottle line extension that appeals to a key group of beer drinkers and expands consumer occasions."
Mr. Beer Experts :0corn
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After they find out it's Bud they don't like it
It?s no secret that we have ties to the craft beer industry. It doesn?t take long to figure out that craft beer lovers love to hate macro brews. In fact, it often seems that despising "the big guys" is just as important to the culture as drinking good beer. All of the industry rumors seem to identify Bud Light Platinum as a desperate attempt to appeal to craft beer drinkers. Will anything they ever make appeal to indie drinkers? We?re not sure it?s possible.
However, in an effort to be fair, we wanted to give A-B?s most recent effort a real chance. We put together a two-person tasting panel consisting of the most refined palates in our office. We also managed to keep the identity of the new brew a secret. We really wanted to know how they?d feel about Bud Light Platinum?s taste, without allowing the beer?s name or origin to skew their opinion.
Anheuser-Busch describes Bud Light Platinum as having a slightly sweeter taste and more alcohol than Bud Light. According to their third-quarter earnings report, the beer is "a trendy blue-bottle line extension that appeals to a key group of beer drinkers and expands consumer occasions."
Mr. Beer Experts :0corn
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After they find out it's Bud they don't like it
The guy on the left is a phony, well they both are. He said he could drink a fair amount of this, before he knew what it was. Then he was like, well I'm not really a pilllsner drinker and other negative stuff.
Neither never said anything negative until they knew it was a Bud product. I hate people like this who refuse to drink "normal" Beers. They are too snobby to drink a regular beer. "Budwieser is crap, Coors tastes like piss, all domestics suck...etc" Shut up!!! They only drink pumpkin beer or some special seasonal brews. STFU!!!
:soapbox:
Rant Over.... For Now....
It's not nice to hate. I'll say a prayer for you while savoring my Hoppin Frog BORIS Imperial Stout a bit later. :toast:
http://www.hoppinfrog.com/
Good taste or not (usually not). Once in a while it's nice to drink well-made beers that are made locally and owned locally.
Bud = Foreign Owned/Controlled
Coors = Foreign Owned/Controlled
Miller = Foreign Owned/Controlled
I'm not a snobby beer drinker, but I do like IPA's, of which the good ones are usually not made by the big 3. However I would try them once if they did. :shrug:
As for the comments about liking normal beer... or domestic beer. Micro-brews are way more "American" and domestic than those big3, if you really think about it. And normal beer is just normal because it because the easiest and cheapest to mass produce.
Budweiser and the big3 drove dozens of local beer makers out of business during the post war years. Not a huge loss because pretty much all beer that was made by regional beer makers was about the same flavor as Budweiser. They used clever marketing and yeah smart business practices, to basically do what Walmart did decades later. Cool, I guess. :shrug:
But in the past 15 years the number of micro-brews and locally owned breweries that make a variety (sometimes hundreds of types of beer) has increased from 8, to 1300+. So, I'm all for people enjoying "normal" beers if that is what they like. But there must be a reason demand for local micro-brews, which cost more than the Big3 increased so much that 1300 breweries have emerged.
There are so few things in America that you can actually get unique from region to region, not owned by a huge corporation, and not popular solely because it shows the most ads on TV.
But ok yeah these guys are kinda ass-hats.
Bud = Foreign Owned/Controlled
Coors = Foreign Owned/Controlled
Miller = Foreign Owned/Controlled
I'm not a snobby beer drinker, but I do like IPA's, of which the good ones are usually not made by the big 3. However I would try them once if they did. :shrug:
As for the comments about liking normal beer... or domestic beer. Micro-brews are way more "American" and domestic than those big3, if you really think about it. And normal beer is just normal because it because the easiest and cheapest to mass produce.
Budweiser and the big3 drove dozens of local beer makers out of business during the post war years. Not a huge loss because pretty much all beer that was made by regional beer makers was about the same flavor as Budweiser. They used clever marketing and yeah smart business practices, to basically do what Walmart did decades later. Cool, I guess. :shrug:
But in the past 15 years the number of micro-brews and locally owned breweries that make a variety (sometimes hundreds of types of beer) has increased from 8, to 1300+. So, I'm all for people enjoying "normal" beers if that is what they like. But there must be a reason demand for local micro-brews, which cost more than the Big3 increased so much that 1300 breweries have emerged.
There are so few things in America that you can actually get unique from region to region, not owned by a huge corporation, and not popular solely because it shows the most ads on TV.
But ok yeah these guys are kinda ass-hats.
Anybody that would make assumptions of a man's character based on which beer he drinks is a fool.
I choose to patronize my friends brewery( selected as 20th best on the planet) which is about 2.5 miles from my home. This doesn't mean I won't drink a bud now and then.
I choose to patronize my friends brewery( selected as 20th best on the planet) which is about 2.5 miles from my home. This doesn't mean I won't drink a bud now and then.
:0074 Very thought provoking as usual.
I personally think the taste of beer sucks. :shrug: I also like to patronize the local store instead of just going to wal mart or home depot, so if I liked beer, I'm sure I would do the same.
I personally think the taste of beer sucks. :shrug: I also like to patronize the local store instead of just going to wal mart or home depot, so if I liked beer, I'm sure I would do the same.
