Budweis...errr...Budwater

[mancini79]

"Budweiser waters down it's beer, lawsuit alleges"

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/budweiser-waters-down-its-beer-lawsuit-alleges-1C8566405

 

NOO!!!, not King Cobra!!!!!

[gotbeer]

Where do I sign up?  I'm storming the castle, this is an outrage.  No wonder it takes me 12 beers, I mean 2 beers to get drunk.

[Ray McKigney]

Damn. I recently realized that I wasn't getting a very good buzz from my regular beer (which is Bud Light). I decided to go with a micro-brew IPA (which was ridiculously expensive) and I got the best buzz from it. Maybe they're lowering the alcohol content in the old standards. Wouldn't surprise me.

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

That 12% from dog fish is nice.

[casmonkey]

Alcoholics.

[LBHalos17]

Makers Mark is watering-down their whiskey too (blamed on lack of production).... Sad days for us Irish...

[punkologist]

haha that even made the newspapers here. Beer stories are very important.

[arch stanton]

Hydrometers are not that expensive and available at any home brewing supply house.

[Splint7438]

If i recall correctly the hydrometer is used to set a baseline for alcohol content during brewing. The beer is then checked again during bottling and after a bottle fermentation. Without a baseline you are only measuring "potential AC". Too many assumptions have to made in a single reading to get a dead on AC measurement. Remember the hydrometer measures the density of the liquid being tested. Not actually the alcohol. There are more expensive devices that measure actual alcohol content but they are very expensive. My advice is to spend your money on chimay blue and leave the world of 3.2 beer behind.

[Jason]

I drink craft beers anyways. I care less about Budweiser and their products.

[mancini79]

Makers Mark considered watering down the product due to high demand. About a week ago they said they will not be going through with it.

[Wallerrrr]

Stupid Clydesdale horses

[Brandon]

Makers Mark is watering-down their whiskey too (blamed on lack of production).... Sad days for us Irish...

 

They aren't anymore. As soon as it was announced there was crazy backlash and it seemed just as soon as the announcement to cut back because of production the president released a Twitter message saying something like, "You spoke, we listened" and then followed up with an official article.

 

This would have been a travesty. 

[GuliblGuy]

If you're drinking Budweiser....welll....you get what you pay for.

[nate]

It tastes like they dilute it with urine.

[Wallerrrr]

It tastes like they dilute it with urine.

urine probably would give you more of a buzz

 

..im not willing to find out tho

[HeavenlyHalos]

Bud adds a ton of rice to their wort, which is probably why I never much cared for it.

[Pbonetheman]

I moved on from Budweiser since high school. Dirty stuff. 

[St1ck]

Alcoholics.

 

 

Alcoholics pay your rent. 

[Tank]

Stupid Clydesdale horses

 

when it came to beer, my dad always said that as far as he was concerned, they could just pour it back into the horse.

 

gotta say, i don't get what you all like about the taste of it. 

[GuliblGuy]

Natural Ice....now that's where it's AT!

[arch stanton]

If i recall correctly the hydrometer is used to set a baseline for alcohol content during brewing. The beer is then checked again during bottling and after a bottle fermentation. Without a baseline you are only measuring "potential AC". Too many assumptions have to made in a single reading to get a dead on AC measurement. Remember the hydrometer measures the density of the liquid being tested. Not actually the alcohol. There are more expensive devices that measure actual alcohol content but they are very expensive. My advice is to spend your money on chimay blue and leave the world of 3.2 beer behind.

 

The hydrometer you would buy from a beer supply house is designed for beer. The alcohol content is what varies the density.

 

And don't worry about me. I live in St Louis and you couldn't pay me to drink a Bud product.

[Splint7438]

Yes Arch the density changes as the alcohol content goes up. Thats why I mentioned having a baseline to start from. Tank, while I disagree with your dad about pouring it back into the horse, that is a FUNNY line.

[Homebrewer]

If i recall correctly the hydrometer is used to set a baseline for alcohol content during brewing. The beer is then checked again during bottling and after a bottle fermentation. Without a baseline you are only measuring "potential AC". Too many assumptions have to made in a single reading to get a dead on AC measurement. Remember the hydrometer measures the density of the liquid being tested. Not actually the alcohol. There are more expensive devices that measure actual alcohol content but they are very expensive. My advice is to spend your money on chimay blue and leave the world of 3.2 beer behind.

Right^

Unless you know the specific gravity of the wort before fermentation, simple tests like hydrometer or refractometer wont tell you anything.

[Splint7438]

I have one for my homebrewing! I should break that puppy out and make some beer. Has been way too long.