NEWS: Anheuser-Busch Doesn't Want You to Drink its Beers

CULTURE: Anheuser-Busch Doesn't Want You to Drink its Beers

Anheuser-Busch, brewers of American beers such as Natural Light, Michelob, Busch, and Budweiser, was shocked, absolutely shocked to find out that irresponsible ruffians were using the Budweiser promotional game "Bud Pong" with alcohol instead of water!

How dare these idiots play a brewery-branded game at a bar that serves said brewery's products while consuming alcohol! It's absolutely inconceivable how one could come to the conclusion that beer would be an acceptable substitute for water in such a situation!

Personally, I'm appalled at the stupidity of those who chose to drink Budweiser products in direct opposition to the published rules of the game. How ignorant! How uncouth! How... brainwashed by marketing! Oh... wait...

In a related story, Wham-O was shocked to learn that anyone who has ever played Frisbee golf was high as hell.

I'm just disgusted that anyone would drink budweiser, unless of course they're drinking the czech budweiser-budvar, which I believe actually qualifies as beer (in contrat to the american counterpart).

I like bud, sorry. I drink it to get drunk, not as a status symbol. You must have a very low disgust threshold.

Bud or Guiness, nothing else.

Bud gets you drunk?

can any one say holy shit we really knew what we are doing but we need to now savfe face. drink up live life and be marry

Unless Bud is my old friend from college that always had an open tab at the local bar, I can't see how Bud would get anyone drunk...

Wait. Someone could tell the difference between Bud and water?

Yes, they noticed the liquid in the cups seemed to have a more yellow color than usual, thereby ruling out the possibility of it being Bud.

I know we're not supposed to get all judgemental and stuff on sg, but that's just weird.

What, they're both light beers. Easy to drink.

To be honest, I'm not much for beer. More of a hard liquor fan...

Nah. Bud & Guiness are actually pretty close. I used to think guiness was heavy beer until I discovered Russian Imperial Stouts. Now Guiness is just something wet to drink at bars that don't have much of a selection. It really has no taste.

But I understand why people don't like big beers. They're heavy as shit, fairly high in alcohol content, and really not something cool and refreashing. They're fucking expensive too.

Exactly. Bud actually has more alcohol by volume than Guinness. Guinness, all things considered, is a very light beer. Of course, people put down Bud all the time, but if you're looking for something to drink that's not heavy, there's nothing better.

Plus, Bud has more alcohol than Bass, Sam Adams, Anchor Steam, McKewans Scotch (as well as Guinness).

[Edited on Oct 20, 2005 by PointBlank]

I didn't mean the alchohol content as much as I meant that the tastes and textures are very different. I'm a Guinness drinker and all the Bud and Bud-esque drinkers I know make a gross face when they see me drinking the black stuff, that's why it seems an odd couplet to me.

I think that's why i switch between the two. A little variety. All those other craft brews taste the same to me: too heavy and hoppy. I can have one of them on occasion, but for a night of drinking, I like to back up the Turkey with something crisp.

That is a bold faced lie. Their mothers should be ashamed.

The texture is what I like about Guinness and other stouts - the lack of carbination. English bitters like Buddingon's and Tetley's are like that too. It just makes them smoother and easier to throw down.

Corporate indignation is a weird thing - it can't be real indignation because it's so illogical to get upset over that thing, so it's just the corporation's way of telling you to stop doing something. We have these color printers at work, for instance, that we use to print up colorful account summaries. Since they're there, we sometimes use them for other things. Then one day, our manager was on a group call in which someone in higher managment expressed their shock and disgust that we would ever even think to use those printers for anything except the one thing. We figured that what they meant is that they just wanted us to decrease our usage of them for other things, but they didn't know how to enforce it aside from oddly-placed shame.

… if you can pick yourself off the floor and clear a path through the empty bottles to get back to the keyboard.

I drink Budweiser almost exclusively. Always have.

Hey man, I...you...wait...

Joke:

Q: "How is American beer like making love in a canoe?"
A: "They're both fucking close to water!"