Jim Beam Is Collaborating with Budweiser on a Beer

I was going to say Boilermaker In A Can, and then I read the article. I must be psychic.

 

Typo or truth in advertising?

Looks like that's not the only Budweiser brand extension coming:


I've said it before, but AB should just put out a Samuel Johnson Lager.

There was a time when this stuff was considered in bad taste (even during WWII, such as):

 

I wonder this Bud-Beam [pew pew pew] will taste like the short-lived Michelob Winter's Bourbon Ale? It was really bad.

That "Freedom Reserve" could probably be its own beer news discussion.

 

Sounds delicious !

 

"Two American-as-apple-pie brands..."

I stopped reading after that line.

 

I'm in if I see it. Never saw the last one off that was around , prohibition I think it was.

Enjoy

 

I will truly be impressed when A-B creates a beer honoring Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Casimir Pulaski, or Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Layfayette. Perhaps a grodziske, a fine lager and a farmhouse ale. I would buy those for sure. These guys are American heroes that dangle in time nearly unknown. But I kinda don't see it happening.......

 

Inspired by George Washington's recipe? Seems like stretch, only due the note about "a hint of molasses"?

http://www.mountvernon.org/the-estate-gardens/food-culture/beer/

 

Well there is the Pulaski Highway (Route 40) in Baltimore. And Lafayette has fairly high profile in PA with Lafayette Hill, Lafayette College, Fayette County, etc.

Yards Brewing in Philly has their "Ales of the Revolution". Their GW Tavern Porter also uses Molasses, and is likely closer to anything that Washington drank (like Robert Hare's Porter brewed in Philadelphia) than the Budweiser Red Lager will be.
https://yardsbrewing.com/ales-of-the-revolution/

 

I would be interested in drinking an 'original' Budweiser as it was brewed in 1876.

Cheers!

P.S. I regularly homebrew my reconstruction of the 'original' (1896) Michelob. I have a batch bottle conditioning right now. That is a tasty beer.

 

Close - it was Budweiser 1933 Repeal Reserve Amber Lager

(The closest they have for a true "Prohibition" entry is O'Douls ).

 

I had to laugh at the comparison because both Bud and Beam are no longer American owned.

 

Interesting to me as an amateur historian as all three deserve more recognition for their contributions to out Nation's founding. Not entirely forgotten though, within a relatively short drive from where I sit are the towns of Kosciuszko, Pulaski and William Faulkner's home town of Oxford is the seat of Lafayette County. Curiously though perhaps not surprising the locals of each mispronounce the names.

 

I would be willing to bet they can’t pronounce Coach Krzyzewski’s name either.

Cheers!

 

I doubt they have an interest in trying.

 

Not unknown to those of us who claim Polish heritage. But I agree, If InBev produces a grodziske I will give it a try.

 

Not to mention Pulaski, Va, Fayetteville, N.C., Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Fayetteville, West Virginia. Still, I wish more folks knew this stuff. The real story...

 

Yeah, Frederick Carl Hans Bruno Baron von Poellnitz, close friend of William Augustus Henry Ferdinand Baron von Stueben has an honorary statue in Lafayette Park across the street from The White House. Being my great, great dad +++ I have a nice collection of his correspondence and genealogy that I have managed to keep and cherish. Appropriately, I've just cracked a very fresh Sierra Nevada Southern Gothic Unfiltered Pils from Mills River. I'm loving it!

 

Contrary to the OP's linked article's claim:

Ad Age says the beer will be:

Yeah, another "aged on staves" beer. I imagine given the quantity of beer for most AB releases and the size, automation and speed of their breweries' equipment, actual "barrel" aging would be a production nightmare.

Yeah, but I wanted to keep all the snarky comment about AB's attempts to revive it's Budweiser brand in one spot .

Actually, other than that "snip" underneath the label (Photoshopped from the hard-to read paragraph under "Red Lager") and the note that $1 for each case sold (that's 4.2¢ a bottle!) will be donated to "Folds of Honor", I don't know anything else about the beer, having simply come across it by accident doing some research on AB's COLA's.