Quel Surprise! Belgian Beer Expert Doesn’t Like Budweiser
July 24, 2008 by Kelly Phillips Erb
Filed under Drinks
Joris Pattyn, a Belgian beer expert and champion of Belgian beers, recently gave Budweiser a whirl. Pattyn tried out InBev’s newest “flagship” beer and didn’t exactly give rave reviews. Among other things Pattyn had to say, he commented that Budweiswer was “a beer for students getting drunk…it will take hours but eventually it will happen.”
Hmm, wasn’t that Bud’s slogan?
You can see what else Pattyn had to say here:
Not a huge surprise here, is it? Kind of like giving an international food critic a Big Mac.
I don’t know a single beer-lover that likes Budweiser. But America is not made up of beer-lovers, it’s made up of Joe Americans. Budweiser is pretty much all my Dad will drink. And that makes it a good investment for InBev.
The surprise is that Bud is not actually all that much lower in alcohol content than the average European lager. It tastes like watered down beer, but it’s not. As for students, Pattyn’s way off. Students who love cheap beer drink Pabst or some of the cheap regional brews (Lion’s Head, anyone?), whereas students who love beer drink something better.