I can understand that you do not want to compare Ales to Lagers, like Apples to Oranges. How about these Apples? Lagers like Legend and Millstream? Small craft Lagers that mop the floor with and Lager AB can put out.

And as for bringing up Michael Jackson, well, I do not drink a wine because Robert Parker or Jay Miller says it is the best.

Please do not take offense to posts like Ashley’s. Your beer is sub-par on the discerning palate. At least you can always fall back on your sales numbers. You got them there!

Thanks for your facts and opinions. Its always good to have someone who is biased from the other side give their opinion. Budweiser can be as good at that particular style as they want to be..better than anything else. It doesn’t matter how hard it is to make or how good it is in comparison with other similar styles. Its still uninspriring, watered down, and at best–AVERAGE. However, it is a helluva lot better than all other coporate beers. Budweiser is the cheapest, most average beer that I can tolerate. You can spout off all you want about the circle and the big corporate companies aiding the small breweries, distributors, etc..but until they own and operarate DFH, Stone, Bell’s, Great Divide, Weyerbacher, etc, etc, etc…then you are preaching to the wrong crowd. All of the subsidiary companies owned by A-B are again, average at best. I’m a huge Ale lover..especially IPAs and Longhammer is as bad as it gets for me. Maybe the green flash ipa or sierra nevadas old ipa are as bad. I choose to go to places in town that serve craft brewed beer..regardless of style or where it came from. The bars/restaurants that just have your generic taps(stella, budweiser, bud light, longhammer or the american ale, etc etc) just turn me off and I try to avoid them. Your claim about A-B helping out all of the other small brewers sounds eerily similar to the Big Gov’t that we are living with today.