This Bud's for You - NOT! Germans Mad About Bud Being Official Beer of World Cup!
Jun 28th, 2006, 11:02 AM
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This is the closest thing to Bud, you can get in Bavaria http://www.oettinger-bier.de
Watery tasteless "beer". It's a BIG success, sold at most groceery stores for 4.99€/10 liters. People buy it, because it's cheap and they drink it to get "pissed"
fast. Perfect for brits too!
Watery tasteless "beer". It's a BIG success, sold at most groceery stores for 4.99€/10 liters. People buy it, because it's cheap and they drink it to get "pissed"
fast. Perfect for brits too!
Jun 28th, 2006, 03:43 PM
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Great joke, almcd. Just to clear something up, you won't find Foster's in an Australian pub - we reserve its delights for our foreign friends. Mind you, I'd rather drink Bud than the most popular Australian beer, Victoria Bitter. And that's saying something.
Something that's always puzzled me is the popularity of the watery, fizzy and near-tasteless Heineken, the yuppie beer of choice here.
Like many other beers around the world, Bud is a lowest-common-denominator product, designed to offend the smallest number of consumers.
Rubbish like the aforementioned VB is deliberately made to a low standard so that the brewery can charge a high price for a drinkable "premium" beer, like the very good James Squire range, which costs it very little more to make. Anyone who's brewed their own beer can tell you two things about the process - it's cheap, and it's not rocket science.
Something that's always puzzled me is the popularity of the watery, fizzy and near-tasteless Heineken, the yuppie beer of choice here.
Like many other beers around the world, Bud is a lowest-common-denominator product, designed to offend the smallest number of consumers.
Rubbish like the aforementioned VB is deliberately made to a low standard so that the brewery can charge a high price for a drinkable "premium" beer, like the very good James Squire range, which costs it very little more to make. Anyone who's brewed their own beer can tell you two things about the process - it's cheap, and it's not rocket science.
