Patriotic Beer Drinkers

Like the car industry comparison. Ownership makes sense as to whether a beer is domestic or foreign.
Sure, ignorance is a major factor in all this confusion but its hard to educate when so many are so proudly wilfully ignorant.
People play the patriotic card not just because they're proud of their country but because they like the security of aligning themselves with something everyone else loves and is easy to find. Its just one less thing to worry about in life. And in the world today there seems to be a hell of a lot to worry about.

 

Hell, it's celebrated. Look at the Right side of politics. Tea Party, Evangelism, etc. We learn things over time as a culture. As we learn things, we change things. Certain parts of our culture are afraid of change because it challenges their paradigm (worldview). It's sad.

No offense, people who may or may not fall under the wide umbrella I just opened up.

 

Yep. And ignorance seems like its being celebrated the world over. But on the other hand there's also too much change for change sake.
Nothing a decent craft/cask beer wouldn't solve though.

 

Nothing in this country is 100% American. More than half of everything you own is made in China. Everything you bought was shipped, powered by oil from the Middle East, most likely driven in a foreign made Truck. I think the notion of labeling products as 'American' or whatever is completely outdated.

 

The corn is certainly coming from the U. S.

 

The company was founded by a German immigrant probably paying homage to the homeland. This discussion reminds me of V. S. Naipaul.

 

Ha, ha...I knew that "winking smiley" icon after that comment wouldn't work!

Anheuser-Busch began when German-born Eberhard Anheuser took over a small St. Louis brewery and later hired his son-in-law, German-born Adolphus Busch. Neither came from Budweis or from Bohemia.

In the 1870's, Busch and Carl Conrad, a marketer of alcoholic beverages, developed a beer for Conrad's company in the style of the "Bohemian" style lagers/pilsners that were all the rage in Europe, using US available ingredients. They named the beer after the city of Budweis in Bohemia where beers of that style were popular, similar to how some beer styles are still referred to by the original brewing regions (pilsners, Dortmunders, Vienna lagers, etc). A number of breweries in the US would also brew beers they called "Budweiser" (style). in the early 1880's A-B took over the brand from the bankrupt Conrad and used the name as protected trademarked brand name and not just as a beer type/style, eventually preventing other US breweries from using the name after a number of lawsuits.

 

(Uh-oh, looks like ability to "edit" is back down to a
15 minute limit- shouldn't have gotten up for another cup of coffee...)

(continued).... Of course, that didn't take care of the little matter of several breweries IN Budweis aka České Budějovice in the Czech Republic using the brand name "Budweiser"- that's taken a few more decades worth of lawsuit around the world, some won, some lost, as well as the recent purchase of the rights to the name from one of the Czech breweries by A-B-Inbev.

 

Well, yeah, if he threw you a 'tude about it, then you were justified in your response.

By the same token, if one enters a bar where taps are taken up by Bud, Bud Light, Miller, Miller Lite etc, one shouldn't have high expectations. The places I go to don't even serve American Adjunct lagers, so there's no confusion over "domestic" vs. "imported."

 

What a f'ing idiot. Sadly, this isn't uncommon. Also I wish GABF would get their act together and boot BMC from the Great AMERICAN beer festival, or allow in beers like Bass Ale which are now made in the U.S. (though foreign owned).

 

On that note, Beck's just started coming out of Newark as well. The twelve packs now boast "German Quality" as opposed to something to the effect of "America's #1 Import." So Beck's can now have a shot at GABF.

 

Pretty sure foreign-owned US breweries were always allowed at the GABF - Fred Koch in the early '80's when they were owned by the UK's Vaux comes to mind, Latrobe/Rolling Rock participated when it was owned by Labatt, and I imagine that Indian-owned Mendocino beers have been entered in the past.

As for beers, both Miller's Lowenbrau and Coors' Killians, both foreign brands brewed under license at the time, have won GABF medals.

 

I would say the commie Left side of the aisle is more the case. Anti-Christian, anti-white, anti-male, hate freedom and Anti-American Left-Wing is more willfully ignorant.

 

Hey man, I think I recognize you from the John Birch Society forums! Same username?

 

Who??? What??