Budweiser in hot water!

[fundmark19]

Looks like they are being accused of watering down their beer. It is starting to make sense why it tastes like %#&@.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/stor...budweiser.html

[PsYcNeT]

You wouldn't think watering it down would make it taste like someone stubbed out a cigarette in your beer.

[polak]

I give them props. Water tastes far better then that crap. Probably has more alcohol in it too.

I'm shocked that people can drink bottom shelf domestic and enjoy it.

[TorqueDog]

I was expecting to see that Budweiser had horsemeat in it.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

I was expecting to see that Budweiser had horsemeat in it.

Homerun, on a couple of levels! Well-played.

[Bertuzzied]

Lando to shanko, shanko to lando... and they miss the net!

King of Water Beers!

[MissTeeks]

I was in the States two weeks ago, I really liked the Bud Light Platinium

[Table 5]

Beer lovers across the U.S. have accused Anheuser-Busch of watering down its Budweiser, Michelob and other brands, in class-action suits seeking millions in damages.

Come on, what self-respecting beer lover would even care what goes into Budweiser? As long as there is anything else on the menu, there's no reason to even touch that stuff.

[Bobblehead]

If they like Budweiser as much as I enjoy craft brews and it costs them a lot less, more power to them.

But if this is true, that is just dirty pool.

[calumniate]

I once heard a statement that Molson Canadian would brew their beer at a higher percentage, then add water. Would make sense from an efficiency standpoint, and the overall grossness of the beer. Dirty pool if true as well!

[Ozy_Flame]

Non-Americans drink Budweiser? I had it once in a pub in like . . . Idaho or something.

[Wood]

I like Bud

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by calumniate

I once heard a statement that Molson Canadian would brew their beer at a higher percentage, then add water. Would make sense from an efficiency standpoint, and the overall grossness of the beer. Dirty pool if true as well!

That's exactly what they do, and it doesn't matter at all.
It's damn near impossible to hit the 5% right on the head, and they can't just add more alcohol, so they brew it to stronger than 5% and then dilute it to the proper alcohol level.
It's done with every kind of booze in the world, beer, vodka, even the fanciest single malts are done this way.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Wood

I like Bud

I dont think we have a 'Confessions' thread around her for things like that.

Wear your bag of shame!!!

[Wormius]

I thought all domestic beers were watered down. I had some Labatts in the fridge and it was like drinking tonic water.

[Erick Estrada]

I can't believe how low companies will stoop. How lame is it to water down your own product? I can understand independant distributors watering down kegs trying to skim but Budweiser themselves watering down their own product is a new level of pathetic.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

That's exactly what they do, and it doesn't matter at all.
It's damn near impossible to hit the 5% right on the head, and they can't just add more alcohol, so they brew it to stronger than 5% and then dilute it to the proper alcohol level.
It's done with every kind of booze in the world, beer, vodka, even the fanciest single malts are done this way.

I'm sure that dilution is necessary to ensure that alcohol levels are not exceeded but to purposely dilute your product with intentions of only making more profit is disgusting.

[browna]

By up to 8%? So its 4.6% vs. 5.0%?

And now every Johnny Lunchpail who buys a 6 pack is jumping on the lawsuit bandwagon?

Given that it is based on "Our information comes from former employees at Anheuser-Busch, who have informed us that as a matter of corporate practice, all of their products mentioned (in the lawsuit) are watered down," Boxer said." , its basically some former employees that may just have re-spouted the Budweiser unsubstainaited watercooler talk they had with coworkers.

The lawsuit sounds like a more a product of the opportunity provided some law firm looking to make a name for themselves against a high profile client in the Litigious US of A, than an open and shut case.

[Canada 02]

I wonder if they have more than former employee testimonials. Perhaps a lab test to prove there is even a single bottle of beer with lower alcohol content. I doubt it

[troutman]

A former Molson's employee told a friend that Rickard's Red is Molson Canadian with food coloring. Urban legend?