Anheuser World Select

[whatdahec]

I just tried this stuff. I paid $7.75 for the sixer. Has anyone tried this stuff? Tastes like Heineken, with the typical Bud aftertaste. They got brewmasters from 10 countries to put this together. I expected a whole lot more. A good beer, but not a great beer.

[MmmBeer]

Yeah, this beer is very average. Better than Bud. But not nearly as good as even the decent microbrews.

[damn good]

I like to call Anheineken, bud aftertaste but not quite as skunky as heineken. Personaly I think its way over priced crap!

[Richard English]

Which countries (and breweries) did they get them from? I think we should be warned so as to avoid them.

By the way, in case there are any readers who are unaware, real Budweiser is sold in the USA as Czechvar. The Budvar brewery is not allowed to use the Budweiser brand name in the USA, but they still brew, and can sell, the real stuff. In the UK we can buy both US and Czech Budweiser (although the A-B version is manufactured under licence in London).

[steveh]

Which countries (and breweries) did they get them from? I think we should be warned so as to avoid them.

The brewmasters were chosen from the various AB satellite breweries around the globe. You were expecting better? :P

The countries listed are: Ireland, Spain, Italy, Korea, Japan, Canada, China, Argentina, UK and the United States. Sad to see Ireland, UK, and the U.S. in there, and glaringly obvious by their absence (for the formulation of a Pilsner beer) are the Czech Republic and Germany. But AB probably doesn't have breweries in either of those regions - for fear of embarrassment.

http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-001932.php

S.

[L.H.H.H.Brown]

Glad to see a consensus. It just tasted like Bud with less rice to me. Realize some of those countries do not have a really good history of beer. Spain and Italy make wine. Wonder if anyone will buy the stuff.

[Richard English]

I would imagine that the UK representative "master brewer" is the man who turns on the machinery in Budweiser's Mortlake chemical factory!

Sadly, there are many people in the UK who drink chemical fizz - A-B Budweiser is apparently the most popular bottled beer in England - and it is also one of the most expensive!

Can you understand the mentality (not to say the taste buds)of someone who will pay more for a Budweiser than they would need to for a Fullers 1845?

[steveh]

Can you understand the mentality (not to say the taste buds)of someone who will pay more for a Budweiser than they would need to for a Fullers 1845?

No.

What do psychologists have to say about status perception and peer pressure?

I know that there is a reverse snobbery against those of us in the U.S. who drink good beer - it's similar to the perception of wine lovers being pretentious snobs.

Maybe the youth in the U.K. who are drinking Bud (straight from the bottle, I hear) are rebelling against age-old norms and traditions - as youth will. I know that I drank imports in college because I thought it made me look sophisticated and worldy (sure it did). I hope AB's popularity in the U.K. is just a passing fad.

S.

[Richard English]

Sadly the consumption of Real Ale has been on the decline for many years and chemical fizz now outsells it. The problem is that the fizz manufacturers are spending mega-money to promote their rubbish and, becaue we still have a choice in the UK, people are choosing it.

Unfortunately we are slowly but surely losing old-established brands simple because they cannot compete with the high-profit, high-visibility international brands.

Breweries get taken over by a predator (Whitbread is our A-B) and then are just closed. Although we have a large number of small brewers who often spring up to replace a larger brewer that's closed, they rarely replace it's level of supply since they don't have a distribution network in place and the mega-brewers can effectively shut them out from many pubs.

So, drink plenty of Youngs, Fullers, Timothy Taylors and other medium-sized family breweries' products. Don't drink anything brewed by Whitbread, John Smiths, Scottish and Newcastle or any other of the fizz-giants.

[steveh]

Originally posted by Richard English
Don't drink anything brewed by Whitbread, John Smiths, Scottish and Newcastle or any other of the fizz-giants.

Or Bass anymore, I imagine? Now that they're owned by the AB of the Rocky Mountains.

S.

[Richard English]

Sadly yes.

Even though Draught Bass is a good drink (although not so good as it once was), the company are doing little to promote it. I should not be at all surprised the see the owners of the world's first registered trademark (the Bass red triangle) get rid of their best and most historic brand.

[wortchillergoal]

I have not tried it but you may find this hard to swallow, but I am little surprised it is not better than you guys say. Ther is an AB brewery were I live. I played hockey for a team they sponsered, BUD ICE. Yeah maybe as a beer snob I shoudn't have but some of the guys who work in the brewery bought me a six pack of unmarked bottles. They told me they were brews AB was thinking about making and would I taste them and rate them. One was that Elephant Red they made for a while. They were not great but I would have taken them in a bar over regular Bud or other massed produced stuff. They actually had a stout that could have started America down the road to better beer.

[b3s]

well, i gave this stuff a try. two thumbs down. i should have known...bud, by any other name, still tastes the same!