Subject: Bud Light

• In This Week's Issue

  December 5, 2007

• SLU Basketball Billikens: Misery Loves Company (and Media Scrutiny)

  January 14, 2008

• St. Louis Mardi Gras Jäger Bomb

  February 1, 2008

• Anheuser-Busch: King of Beers, Bud of Joke

  February 28, 2008

• Anheuser-Busch: King of Beers, Bud of Joke

  February 28, 2008

• SLU Basketball Billikens: Misery Loves Company (and Media Scrutiny)

  January 14, 2008

• AB/InBev Loves It Some Futbol, err, Football

  The economy has several advertisers sitting out this year's Super Bowl, but not AB/InBev. The Belgium-based brewer of Bud Light and everyone's favorite, Hoegaarden, has bought four-and-a-half minutes of time during the February 1 contest. The company's creative director, Bob Lachky, tells the San Francisco Chronicle that marketing plans for the game are unaffected by the economic doldrums. In fact, he sees the day as a balm. "To have fun with friends and family -- that

  January 13, 2009

• Brew, Baby, Brew: The ranks of St. Louis' craft brewers are swelling as we swill

  June 3, 2009

• Anheuser-Busch Dethroned After 10 Straight Years With Best Super Bowl Commercial

  Hey little buddy. We got some catching up to do. The results are in for USA Today's annual Super Bowl Ad Meter ratings, and for the first time in a decade the winner isn't Anheuser-Busch (or AB InBev, as we affectionately refer to it today).Also for the first-time ever the best commercial wasn't created by an advertising company. This year's top spot went to a pair of unemployed brothers from Indiana who won a contest to create an ad for Doritos. The advertisement, in which office workers use a

  February 2, 2009

• Carlsbad, New Mexico: No Longer a Bud Light Kind of Town

  Even with the InBev buyout of Anheuser-Busch last year, it's safe to say that St. Louis will forever be a Budweiser town. The same cannot be said for Carlsbad, New Mexico. Following public outcry, the city's A-B distributor covered up a billboard this week that greeted motorists to Carlsbad with the message: "Bud Light: Our Kind of Town." Yesterday the New Mexico county's DWI program coordinator, Cindy Sharif, told the Carlsbad Current-Argus: "We don't disagree that beer companies have the

  February 18, 2009

• Re: Otter in Mourning

  Aimee's post earlier today about the untimely death of Splash the otter may be the first in a recurring series. The Missouri Department of Conservation decided earlier this month that trappers in the state will be allowed to capture and kill an unlimited number of the critters this year. Via the KC Star:The season will be Nov. 15 to Jan. 31. Biologist Jeff Beringer estimated the state's otter population at 15,000. Trapping is the preferred "management tool" because it causes

  March 30, 2009

• D'oh! Chinese Beer Overtakes Bud Light as World's Biggest Seller

  flickr.com/photos/avlxyzYou've surely been cautioned not to eat yellow snow. But in China, drinking yellow Snow is evidently big business. How big? Well, last year Snow -- a golden-lager brewed in China -- overtook Bud Light to become the No. 1 selling beer in the world. Snow saw its sales volumes jump 19.1 percent to 61 million hectoliters in 2008 putting it well ahead of Bud Light and sister brew Budweiser, according to a Reuters' article out today. Snow is a product of SABMiller and its Chin

  March 31, 2009

• Bud Light Still No. 1, So Say Bud Manimals

  Louie don't like it. Anheuser-Busch is disputing recent claims that Chinese brew Snow eclipsed Bud Light in global beer sales last year. In a statement this week, Budweiser president David Peacock argues that Snow represents a family of beer brands that includes at least 25 individual extensions such as Snow Draft Beer, Snow Super-Premium and Snow Original Malt all of which sell at various price points. "By itself, Bud Light remains the largest single brand in the world," says Peacock. In relate

  April 3, 2009

• Hey, Beer-Man! I'll Have a Schlafly

  Was chatting with Schlafly co-owner Dan Kopman today and learned that the famous other St. Louis beer is now available in a whopping seven locations inside Busch Stadium.Might not sound like much, but in years past, only one or two Schlafly brews have ever been available in a mere one spot in the ball-park. "It used to be you had to have sunglasses and a hat on, and go, I'd, uh, like a Schlafly [in a low voice], and the person at the bar was like, Do you know the secret password?" Kopman quips.

  April 7, 2009

• Among this week's letter writers: an actual cougar and a Real Man of Genius

  July 23, 2008

• What's All the Racquet? Gather 'round and hear how Unreal laid down our life for Anna Kournikova.

  July 2, 2008

• Sot in the City: It's time to hit the bottle — not the beach!

  May 21, 2008

• Unreal News Challenge 2007

  Week of December 27, 2007

  December 26, 2007

• Bud Light Clamato Chilada

  Price Unknown
  A Gift From Blythe Hines

  December 5, 2007

• Letters

  Week of June 22, 2005

  June 22, 2005

• Buggers

  For once, Unreal is scared to get between the sheets. Plus: Anheuser-Busch gets buzzed, and the Francis Howell School District plans to take back Christmas.

  May 17, 2006

• Cedric the Keggler

  July 11, 2007

• The Unreal Guide To Soulard Mardi Gras

  February 14, 2007

• Alvear Pedro Ximénez Solera 1927

  January 3, 2007

• Should I jump on the corn bandwagon?

  August 16, 2006

• St. Patrick's Day Column

  March 15, 2006

• Boing!

  The boys who have bouncy cars and the women who love them

  July 13, 2005

• Hotel Bars

  Drink of the Week: A downtown highlight reel

  March 30, 2005

• Dried Out

  Washington U. students fear their campus is turning into a booze-free zone

  February 9, 2005

• Lofty Aspirations

  Lucas Park Grille might be downtown's hottest new spot -- but not because of the food

  January 19, 2005

• Boilermaker

  October 27, 2004

• Gabba Gabba Henh

  The Ramones bopped toward history and an unhappy end

  September 29, 2004

• Bridge to Nowhere

  There were lofty plans for Eats Bridge -- but now it's just a hoosier food court

  July 28, 2004

• Check, Please

  Hydeware's dinner-theater offering lacks a substantial main course

  May 19, 2004

• Party Like Grandpa

  Jazz at the Bistro returns

  September 24, 2003

• Sounds, Suds & Sweat

  July 2, 2003

• O'Fallon Gold

  636-474-2337

  April 16, 2003

• Black and Tan

  John D. McGurk's Irish Pub, 1200 Russell Boulevard, 314-776-8309

  March 12, 2003

• Hot Damn! Cherries

  Hill Bar, 2225 Macklind Avenue, 314-773-4455

  February 5, 2003

• The Caipirinha

  Yemanja Brasil, 2900 Missouri (at Pestalozzi), 314-771-7457

  October 16, 2002

• Piece of Cake

  Atomic Cowboy, 7336 Manchester, 314-645-0608

  October 9, 2002

• Best Drive-Thru Liquor Store

  Fly-By Liquors

  September 25, 2002

• Best Name for a Bar

  September 25, 2002

• All the Kings' Horses

  July 11, 2001

• Short Cuts

  May 12, 1999

• Budweiser Raises Eyebrows With "Beer and Porn" Web Ad

  No matter your, ahem, tastes, you can probably agree that the latest Bud Light marketing campaign stinks. Not only is "drinkability" an absurd, made-up word, the commercials that feature people "drawing" on the screen seem about ten years behind the technology curve. Luckily, the ad-makers hired by Anheuser-Busch can still think outside the box every now and again. Take their recent attempt at producing a viral video on YouTube. Not only is it hilarious, it has the Internetz all abuz

  June 5, 2009

• It's Official: Obama to Drink Bud Light at Today's Beer Summit

  ​Earlier this week we speculated on which brew President Barack Obama would enjoy at today's "Beer Summit" called to diffuse the tiff between Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge police officer James Crowley.Gates is said to be partial to the Jamaican beer Red Stripe. While Crowley prefers microbrew Blue Moon. After much speculation (and jostling among brewers) we now know what Obama will have. Yesterday White House spokesman Robert Gibbs confirmed: "The president will drink a Bud Light." But t

  July 30, 2009

• The Morning Brew: Thursday, 7.30

  The U.S. House of Representatives votes down food-safety legislation. (Reuters)A new study, which looked at older studies, finds that organic food is not healthier than regular food. (Reuters)President Obama has chosen Bud Light as the beer of choice for his summit with Henry Louis Gates and police officer James Crowley. (Bloomberg)

  July 30, 2009

• Bud Light Ad "In the Can" is One for the Ages

  On Friday we told you how Bud Light has been forced to stop selling its school-colors themed "Fan Cans" near the University of Missouri and dozens of other college campuses nationwide. In hindsight, perhaps college administrators got their undies in a bunch because Anheuser-Busch didn't employ a clever ad campaign to promote the Fan Cans. Whatever the case, the brewer doesn't have to worry about anyone being a tight ass after enjoying Bud Light Lime in a can. 'Cause that -- it seems -- would be

  September 21, 2009

• Is AB-InBev Trying to Play Down the Belgian Roots of Bud Light Golden Wheat?

  anheuser-busch.com​On Monday, Anheuser-Busch-InBev announced the nationwide release of Bud Light Golden Wheat, the latest spin-off of the company's most popular brand (Chelada, anyone?) and another attempt by the world's largest brewer to break into the micro-brew market and quench the nation's ever-increasing thirst for craft beers.Described in the press release as "an unfiltered wheat brewed with citrus, a hint of coriander and the superior drinkability of Bud Light" the beer is essentially

  October 7, 2009