Anheuser-Busch canning drinking water for flood victims

[DanTana]

http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/29/news/companies/anheuser-busch-drinking-water-flood-victims/index.html

I will start drinking more Budweiser now.

[Dreams_of_Steel]

I'll stand behind a beverage company or any company that does things like this! Sometimes people need help, and when you can count on a huge international corporation to jump in with both feet, it sends a real message. I'm not a big fan of multi-billion dollar companies, but this will put a 6 pack of Bud Light Platinum in my fridge tonight.

[Bawanna]

I think we sometimes forget that even multi billion dollar companies started out probably in somebody's garage.

I'm waiting for the big change up myself. I'm ready to go public, send me the billions.

[b4uqzme]

Darn noble of them but why don't they just send the beer?

[muggsy]

Anheuser Busch has been providing me with more Budweiser that I can handle for years! A fine company. :)

[Black Train]

They have been doing this for decades. It is a great service to those in need. Clean drinking water is often difficult to obtain after a natural disaster.

[Armybrat]

Darn noble of them but why don't they just send the beer?

Maybe they just re-labeled the Bid Lite?

Austin Rifle Club got flooded:

https://youtu.be/zM76ovQiZ0Q

[CJB]

Darn noble of them but why don't they just send the beer?

My British leaning sensibilities suggest to me they did send the beer, which is in fact indistinguishable from water when compared to beer and ale from Great Britain.

[muggsy]

Bud tastes just like the British beers if you serve it at room temperature. God save the Queen.

[CJB]

Muggs, please dont piss down my back and call it rain. Its Bud.

[berettabone]

That rice beer is so close to water anyway, I doubt whether anyone would have noticed a difference between the water or the beer...............:)

[Streetkahr]

I decided to play it safe and just drink Bass Ale and Irish Whiskey. Thank God! I feel so much safer now! I have to go out and run some errands. I am out of Bass, whiskey, and range ammo!

[CJB]

A nice Watneys Brown or a Nukie stout would do me. Even a McEwans ale...

[TheTman]

I was always partial to St. Pauli Girl Dark, or Guiness Stout when I was able to imbibe. Usually something imported, I tried most of the brands available back then, unless it said "Light" on the label. When I was in Jamaica, it was Red Stripe and Dragon Ale, Bud was a premium import down there and pretty expensive. haha. Red Stripe was better anyway.
Now I'm down to a tiny glass of wine for communion.
Many years ago I ran across a Pabst Blue Ribbon Bock beer that was pretty dark, stout and tasty. I was told it was produced once a year from the beer that collected at the bottom of their huge vats, when they were cleaned out. I only remember seeing it once or twice. Around this time of year. Otherwise I would not touch a nasty PBR. I just looked at the PBR website and didn't see anything about so I suppose they quit making it. I notice they brewed some other beers from my "swill" list Schlitz, Old Milwaukee, Strohs, Olympia, and one of the worst 5 beers I ever tried, Lonestar. (the others being Pearl, Dixie, Milwaukee's Best, and THE WORST: Weidemans). Back then it was sure fun to load up the trunk with Coors beer and head east and sell it for a nice profit. Nice way to pay for my vacations back then. I couldn't believe what people were willing to pay for that crap back east. Then I'd fill the trunk back up with Rolling Rock and go around a call on my friends from New York that were transferred here by my company. You guys never knew what a criminal I used to be. LOL Real life bootlegger. My friend from Mississippi used to run 'shine before he turned 18, He said that could be a real adventure. Having a hot car and knowing all the back roads was a big help.

[berettabone]

I used to drink Pabst dark at a restaurant that I frequented. That was in about 79 I believe.................it WAS good. I love Pabst personally.............all the others that you mention, are bad, and Miller, Miller Light, and the rest of Milwaukee beer tastes like $#!(....................Pabst actually tastes like a cheap beer should, not all watered down(even though it was considered a light beer) full flavor in a light beer. It would be included with some of my favorites like Hacker Octoberfest, Belhaven Ale, Tooths Sheaf Stout, and Blatz:) Luckily, I drink vodka these days........................................growin g up a few towns away from Pabst and Miller, well, I've had my fill. It was Pabst, Schlitz, Blatz, Old Milwaukee, Old Style, Gettleman, Strohs, Coors, Point, Walters, Bubs, Miller High Life, Special Export, and I was born and raised in the town that produced Foxhead, Foxhead Deluxe, and Foxhead 500. I remember a buddy bringing back a bunch of Coors from Colorado...............................you'd think he struck gold...............all the Miller drinkers are spoiled..............they actually don't know what "real beer" tastes like...........they're used to drinking this watered down light beer. Great taste, less filling..................actually, there isn't much taste at all, it's just as filling as any other liquid, and any resemblance of a head disappears in 30 seconds.:)

[DanTana]

I've always liked a good single malt scotch. Hard to beat for all the subtleties of taste.

[Streetkahr]

A nice Watneys Brown or a Nukie stout would do me. Even a McEwans ale...

Haven't seen Watneys or McEwans here since the late 70's. The awesome Yorkshire Ale, Theaksons Old Peculiar will eventually return when they finish rethinking their North American distribution as per their website.

[AJBert]

Bud did this after Katrina. I wanted to keep a few cans but they've been misplaced somewhere along the moves we've made since Katrina rolled through.

[Streetkahr]

I used to drink Pabst dark at a restaurant that I frequented. That was in about 79 I believe.................it WAS good. I love Pabst personally.............all the others that you mention, are bad, and Miller, Miller Light, and the rest of Milwaukee beer tastes like $#!(....................Pabst actually tastes like a cheap beer should, not all watered down(even though it was considered a light beer) full flavor in a light beer. It would be included with some of my favorites like Hacker Octoberfest, Belhaven Ale, Tooths Sheaf Stout, and Blatz:) Luckily, I drink vodka these days........................................growin g up a few towns away from Pabst and Miller, well, I've had my fill. It was Pabst, Schlitz, Blatz, Old Milwaukee, Old Style, Gettleman, Strohs, Coors, Point, Walters, Bubs, Miller High Life, Special Export, and I was born and raised in the town that produced Foxhead, Foxhead Deluxe, and Foxhead 500. I remember a buddy bringing back a bunch of Coors from Colorado...............................you'd think he struck gold...............all the Miller drinkers are spoiled..............they actually don't know what "real beer" tastes like...........they're used to drinking this watered down light beer. Great taste, less filling..................actually, there isn't much taste at all, it's just as filling as any other liquid, and any resemblance of a head disappears in 30 seconds.:)

I hate Bud Lite too. Spent $64 bucks or so with tax on range ammo today, so when I stopped to buy a 12 pack of beer on the way back, there was Bass for $14 and PBR for $9. I went cheap. I'm drinking a PBR right now. Yeah, its probably the best of the cheap beers.

[b4uqzme]

PBR 30 packs are about $15 around here. Gennessee is closer to $12. I'm not proud. Cooking some brats in Genny as I write this. Yum.

[Streetkahr]

I've always liked a good single malt scotch. Hard to beat for all the subtleties of taste.

Yeah! I am developing a taste for good whiskey and it is bad for my budget! Only drink them neat. A nice single malt Scotch is an occasional treat, but I cannot afford it all the time. I started with Islay malts but eventually gravitated to those smokey Highland malts. Have not yet found an American whiskey yet that I do not think is too harsh, but I will eventually find some. Most of the time I buy good Irish blends because they seem as smooth as single malt Scotch at half the price, but I am still a whiskey noobie.