German beer versus Budweiser

Haven't been here long, so I don't know any of the bars. But just so I get some kinda idea:
which one can i go to to get - a bud, a babe and a ball game?

Don't do it to yourself. You will soon learn that the one thing Germans do better than anyone is beer. It actually tastes of something over here though, so you might be a bit surprised if you are used to 'bud'.

Which reminds me, I was at Champs a few Sundays ago watching American football and was sitting next to some Germans who were drinking Budweiser. I have no idea why they were doing that. Shouldn't the Germans have a law against drinking other nationalities beer's, particularly some of the bad American beers?

Was it definitely the shite American brew or was it possibly the incredibly yummy Czech original?

No, it was defintitely the shit American type. It was definitely not the fine Czech brew.

I've been a fan of Budvar (original Budwieser) for a while, but it was always hard to get in pubs in England. Luckily over the past year or so it's available everywhere - yay!

Isn't there some kind of problem now, the Czech Budvar want the name back or something from Budweiser ?

I think there have been various legal disputes all over the world between the two Budweisers and that in most countries only one of them is allowed to call itself Budweiser; Budvar is marketed as Czechvar in US and Canada for example. An important exception is the UK where both are able to use the name.
This document gives a fairly in depth summary and also claims Bud must be sold as Anheuser-Busch B. in Germany, anybody ever seen this? (bit of a demand problem I suppose )
Budweiser Wars

I have heard that there is a deal between the two companies. They will not allow both types of beer to be sold at the same establishment. Also, I am pretty sure Budvar can't be sold in the U.S. due to some deal between the two companies.

just a footnote for the Brits out there - you can get one of the best (but almost unknown in the UK) Czech lagers in bottles in Wetherspoons of all places. Velke Popovice Kozel can be obtained in a half-litre for the princely sum of GBP 1,30! (€2) (Wolverhampton price). What it's doing there is beyond me but definitely cheaper and much better than the badly kept Euro-urine everybody seems to want to drink.
bit link crazy today: Kozel

Well this is not true I'm afraid, as I have worked in places that sell both, in England.
Also I am sure you can get Budvar in America, just packaged differently.

Interesting. Where were these bars that have sold both? Also, if they do sell Budvar in the U.S. it's damn hard to find. I have never come across it and have looked pretty hard.

So, they are trying to sell Budvar in America, but there was an agreement at one time.

http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-001477.php

Whenever I want to get Budvar, you have to ask for Budweiser Budvar else you just get the Budweiser.

I thought that Budvar allowed Budweiser to use the name, so the name originally belongs to the Czech brewery.

why whY wHY WHY? would anyone want to go for that American Budweiser crap whilst living in Muenchen, Germany? Why? My god, even the most red-blooded jingoistic American fuzz-brain should be able to taste the difference in quality...I cannot tell you how many nights I spent back in Oklahoma downing 30 fooking cans (CANS!) of 3.2 Budweiser and Busch with one friend trying to get a buzz on and spending 3/4 of the night interrupting the conversation to go take a leak--this is good? To say nothing of the vastly inferior taste of all American beers short of micro-brews--and you come to Muenchen and ask, oh man, where can I get a BUDWEISER?

Ack. Why don't you paint a bullseye on your t-shirt while you're at it? Sit down and drink a real beer while you've the chance, man. Get some kulcha while you're abroad, so you'll have something to brag to your American mates about when they drive you out of town for spending far too much for the privilege of drinking the crappiest beer available to you.

Jeez...why don't you ask for directions to the nearest Elvis Presley museum while you're at it?

(Don't laugh. It's closer than you think.)

Elvis forever .de
Seems people are crazy all around the world.

Hey yo, this totally changed track.
Whats wrong with a good US bud? And what is it with all this Czech stuff, I've never had it.

There is no such thing as a "good US Bud".

Beer should not have rice listed as a key ingredient.

parler vous anglais?

I know a little place called America - full of weirdos mostly, but I think you might like it...

AmericanStud,
It's o.k. to like your country, but do you REALLY like Bud?! or are you just taking the piss out of us?

You'd be the first person on this earth I'd encounter that drinks "Bud" and likes the taste of it. Or perhaps you didn't taste any (other) beer yet?!

I'd say: give the beer here in Munich a chance: I'm quite sure that by the time you go back to the US, you forgot the taste of Bud. And wenn you then drink your first one again, you'll just think it tastes like piss (like we all here think).

I know one German man who likes the taste of Bud.
He does have mitigating circumstances though.
1. He comes from Hamburg.
2. He doesn't like drinking beer and says that Bud doesn't taste like real beer.
He does have a point with 2. though.
Katrina

Someone needs to force feed this guy some real beer. Who would choose Bud over a Helles?

I would even choose a plastic bottle of Adelskronen from Penny Markt over a Bud...

A close family member was going through chemotherapy, and could not stand strong tastes or smells. She went totally off of her normal favourite tipples, and started drinking Bud, because it was so insipid and weak in flavour that it did not turn her stomach. Nuff said.

I will admit to having been a Bud (why sir?) drinker in the UK (for a short time and at home, not in that I can't face another pint I'll have a bottle of bud (i.e. half pint) pub cop out kind of way. In my defence I was younger and knew nothing of the world (but enough not to drink Hofmeister - a beer that revelled in its ad tagline `for great lager - follow the bear'. So you are following a bear and want to drink yellow liquid??? Purve.), Bud? The beer was sweet, and the hangover tollerable, but there was definately an absinthe like addictive edge to the experience.

On the three times I've been back to Blighty since arriving here, I've been to the pub with my friends, but the standard draft choice of Fosters, Stella or Carlsberg are all so full of chemicals and preservatives that the next morning is a complete disaster. Interesting that the biggest lagers in the UK are not local. Off the top of my head I can't think of a single UK lager, UK brewed imports yes - but a UK lager, anyone?. I'd rather they came here and we lazed in a beer garden.

I've grown out of those old ways, thanks to liberal doses of Helles. I think it takes a maximum of a month to break those old ways (took me about four days).

Carling??? Preferred it when it was still called 'Black Label', and had the good ads on TV, but that was a long, long time ago in a galaxy far far away from Munich...

Saw a stunning Bud advert on TV last night. Lots of images of 'beer' pouring into glasses, and the occasional bit of text on the bottom of the screen - " A cool crisp finish" - that sort of thing. Then one popped up

"5% premium lager"

They did not mention what the other 95 was.

Doh! Actually that was the one I was trying to think of when I said Carlsberg. There are loads when I think about it.

What about bitter? I love it: Old Speckled Hen, Bishops Finger, Widows Fancy etc. etc.

I sat in a nice old pub in Warwick last week, drinking some Winter Warmer bitter. Must say, was very nice! well, more so in the fact it reminds me of the older times !

Come to think of it, I was also drinking some London Pride last week ! In London of course !