What to drink instead of Budweiser
Budweiser is sold as American and brewed in Britain, at Magor, Monmouthshire, South Wales and Samlesbury, Lancashire, at 4.5%. If you were buying it for an American lager, these are the beers on the same shelves that are brewed in the country on their label, or are British and say so, within a point of its strength.
Where Budweiser is really brewed, with the pack wording and the sources.
The same style, genuinely imported from elsewhere
- Peroni Nastro AzzurroImported from Italy · 5.1% · sold as ItalianGenuine import Verified
Brewed at Rome, Padua and Bari in Italy. 5.1% here, the same as at home.
- Birra Menabrea BiondaImported from Italy · 4.8% · sold as ItalianGenuine import Verified
Brewed at Biella, Piedmont in Italy. 4.8% here.
- Budweiser Budvar OriginalImported from Czech Republic · 5.0% · sold as CzechGenuine import Verified
Brewed at Ceske Budejovice in the Czech Republic. 5.0% here, the same as at home.
- Pilsner UrquellImported from Czech Republic · 4.4% · sold as CzechGenuine import Verified
Brewed at Plzen in the Czech Republic. 4.4% here, the same as at home.
- Tsingtao Premium LagerImported from China · 4.7% · sold as ChineseGenuine import Verified
Brewed at Qingdao, Shandong in China. 4.7% here.
- Bitburger Premium PilsImported from Germany · 4.8% · sold as GermanVerified
Brewed at Bitburg in Germany. 4.8% here, the same as at home.
How this list is made. Nobody here has tasted these side by side, and no beer pays to appear. A beer is listed when the record says it is the same kind of beer, is either imported from the country on its label or British and sold as British, is not itself brewed under licence in Britain, has at least one source we trust, and sits within a point of the strength of Budweiser. Beers from the country on the label come first, then the same style from elsewhere, then British beers. Where an import is weaker in Britain than at home, the card says so.
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