Bud seems like a pilsner or I don't know, but it's a copy of pseudo German beer. I mean "'weiser??" So seems logical.
Also tourists, Americans probably find comfort in something familiar.
When I was in Israel I tried some beers. Heineken was popular...others, iffy at best. Was down in Eilat and a bar had Guinness on tap. Salvation.
Budweiser's claim to fame was that in the 60's/70's it, along with Pabst Blue Ribbon/Miller Highllife/Schaefer (if in NY) or Coors on the West coast, it was mass produced/heavily marketed, and avaliable everywhere.
You walk into a Deli, those beers were all they had (maybe Heineken) in the cooler.
So, it really was one shit beer vs another shit beer to prove who was the less shity beer.
They all sucked in my opinion, with Schaefer being maybe the worst beer that I ever drank (Puerto Ricans' loved it) in my lfe. It had to be drank at 33 degrees, 1 degree above freezing so that your taste buds go into shock & you can't taste it. (I kid you not)
Next up the shit list was Coors, whose ad's stressed it was made with "Rockey mountain Spring water", which I personally couldnt give 2 shits about, how does it taste?
Like water mixed some beer to me. Too light, no hops.
Next is Miller High Life, whose marketing shtick was calling that urine "the Champaign of Bottled Beer". Still sucked.
But 2nd place in the worst beer battle, after Schaefer, is Budweiser in my highly-qualified opinion
I think it's more Lager than Pilsner
@Don't Bogart personally, but I can't fucking stand it.
Too many nights puking that shit out of my body & too many mornings waking up with my head exploding (my body was warning me) when I was 16/17/18 (then I got wise & drank Becks
)
But my go too beer in college & one of the main reasons, along with some speed/LSD/Marijuana, that I didn't graduate(
) was the one and only,
Pabst Blue Ribbon, or PBA's for short.
Man, I loved that beer (with a shot of José Cuervo)
A nice Lager like beer, not too light (I hate that) and not heavy at all.
Yea, that's my list and opinion on the most popular beers in America, next to that total abomination, a "Lite" beer.
Thank God with all the new "Craft" beers (Try Two Roads if you can find it, it's made right down the road from me) we finally have some good beers readily available here & that is very nice, indeed.
