AB also do
a brand called Michelob which isn’t too terrible, but you don’t often see it in the UK these days.about half the beer on the planet.
Budweiser is awful though, it's like vodka and soda, every flavor that's left in there is bad.
all others are 3.2%, IIRC, which is an excellent way of making huge amounts of money because it encourages drinkers to neck a lot more beer in order to get shitfaced
Fun fact, carling is only 3.5%. They only need to be within 0.5% of the stated amount, but pay tax based on the actual amount. Being a huge industrial brewer means they've got the process nailed down to the degree that they can consistently hit 3.5% and don't need the margin for error.
3.5% for that hangover!
What else is in it?
Fun fact, carling is only 3.5%.
A quick google states that Budweiser has 5% alcohol.
Now a few years ago I was working in Baltimore, staying in a little apartment, bought a case of Budweiser. There was no alcohol content on the cans or case. I drank several and could not feel the slightest affect of the alcohol. I don't think it would be possible to get "properly" pissed on it, there is no way it is 5%.
I have brewed a lot of all grain beer and I know what 5% feels like!
Either way. It's mildly funny. Despite just being a well-targetted advert.
Remember humour? When people didn't take stuff so seriously?
But it does remind me of the "Advertising and Marketing" schtick from Bill Hicks:
A quick google states that Budweiser has 5% alcohol.
Bud Light is the #1 selling beer in the USA by a massive margin though.
its not a parody.
Ah, so more grifting then...
@gobuchul that seems similar to my memories of Milwaukee Best. It ended up being a test of wills between you and your bladder. Bladder won.
Shiner Bock though, that was nice.
Bud Light is the #1 selling beer in the USA by a massive margin though.
bud light is 4.2 in the USA. the light in the name is a reference to the flavour.
if i remember correctly, most mainstream beers in the USA are 5% (unless you are in Utah where the laws around alcohol sales are different). it’s a while since i lived there and i didn’t/don’t drink that kind of beer, so i could be wrong.
edit: america is odd. the backlash against gillette when they released a “woke” advert was hilarious. i’m not even sure if there was any gay in it!
Wikipedia reckons Carling is Canadian and owned by Molson Coors, which I’d not have guessed.
Also the official beer of the Scotland football team which seems odd as all the beer I remember growing up was Tennent’s, McEwen’s or some variation on 80/-
Wikipedia reckons Carling is Canadian and owned by Molson Coors, which I’d not have guessed.
IIRC the original Carling was born in Yorkshire in the 19thC, grew up in Canada, started a brewery. In the 1950s/60s or thereabouts the brewery brought their fizzy lagery nonsense to the UK and ruffled a few feathers.
if i remember correctly, most mainstream beers in the USA are 5% (unless you are in Utah where the laws around alcohol sales are different). it’s a while since i lived there and i didn’t/don’t drink that kind of beer, so i could be wrong.
I got blindsided by some really tasty beer in New Hampshire once. Because there was no abv on them I consumed as if they were 4% and was rather confused when I saw it all again at the end of the night. Turned out to be more like 8%. Should have guessed from the name. It was called something like Old Thumper.
edit: america is odd. the backlash against gillette when they released a “woke” advert was hilarious. i’m not even sure if there was any gay in it!
I think the gillete ad was a parent breaking up a kids fight while other parents watched on and laughed, and something along the lines of the parent that acted being the "real man" for not needing to be toxic masculinity. Which seemed to threaten the conservatives dads attempts to project their masculinity, and ended up with them getting their panties in a twist.
