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Bud Light Straw-Ber-Rita vs. Bud Light Lime-A-Rita: The Gut Check Taste Test

Earlier this week Gut Check sallied forth to Randall's Wines and Spirits (1910 S. Jefferson Avenue; 314-865-0199) and got our hands on a case of Bud Light's new Straw-Ber-Rita and a case of Bud Light Lime-A-Rita. It was time for a taste test. Here at Gut Check International Headquarters, we're ... More >>

Bud Light Jumps on Equality Bandwagon, Homophobe Beer Drinkers Pissed

If you're on Facebook, you've likely seen the proliferation of red and pink equal signs in lieu of profile pictures, a gesture of support for gay-marriage equality as the United States Supreme Court considers two cases on the topic. Since then, lots of fans have started "remixing" the equal sign. T ... More >>

A-B Unleashes the Straw-Ber-Rita on Unwitting Drinkers

Well, crap. Anheuser-Busch is at it again. On the heels of last year's stunning success with its Bud Light Lime-A-Rita, A-B has released the Straw-Ber-Rita. Contrary to what it sounds like (a sad border-town stripper), the Straw-Ber-Rita is a mixture of Bud Light Lime and strawberry flavoring. A ... More >>

10 St. Louis Mardi Gras Food & Drink Specials Worth Their Weight in Beads

It's that time again folks, that time when it's perfectly acceptable to get day drunk in public while getting as undressed as the 51-degree forecast will allow us. That's right, Mardi Gras is this Saturday, February 9, in Soulard. If the only thing on your Mardi Gras to-do list so far is "party," th ... More >>

Gut Check Taste Tests Anheuser-Busch's New Bud Light Lime-A-Rita

On March 6, Gut Check shared our experience test marketing a new Anheuser-Busch/InBev product, Bud Light Lime-A-Rita, a malt-liquor mashup mixed with Bud Light Lime. Research revealed that AB planned to release the product in April, and recently we received a shipment of Bud Light Lime-A-Rita at Gut ... More >>

Five Scenarios When Minors Should Be Allowed to Drink Alcohol

Last week, the Illinois Senate approved the proposed "sip and spit" legislation that now moves to the House. If passed, the bill would make it legal for culinary students 20-years-old and younger to taste and spit alcohol (much like what you're suppose to do at wineries, but that rarely occurs). The ... More >>

Win Tickets to Friday Night's Missouri Valley Tournament

​We have two sets of tickets to Arch Madness on Friday night for the 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. games. They're good seats, too, inside the club section with access to the Bud Light Zone for free appetizers, soda and discounted adult beverages. But here's the catch: To win a pair you must correctly answe ... More >>

The Best Super Bowl Commercials by the Music

The Darkness saved Samsung's ad from spiraling down into forgettable territory. ​Let's be blunt. This year's Super Bowl was dismal for Midwesterners. Sure, there were exceptions. Transplants from Boston, New York City or New Jersey may have enjoyed the game. Some may have had a rooting intere ... More >>

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: February 3-February 5

Friday (Feb. 3): Missouri Organic Association organic food workshops @ St. Louis Union Station Marriott Catch the last couple of days of this annual conference geared toward urban and suburan farms and gardeners, gardener wannabes and foodies, featuring plenty of workshops ranging from consumer he ... More >>

Did Mayor Slay dis Anheuser-Busch? Readers sure hope so.

Vote for Best St. Louis Super Bowl Ad: Budweiser vs. Dirt Cheap Chicken

Dirt Cheap lived up to its name in a bargain-basement production.​We know the drill this morning. Time to re-watch all those Super Bowl commercials you missed while heading back to the fridge. Here -- in no particular order -- are the ads with St. Louis connections that we noticed during last nigh ... More >>

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Mizzou Researchers Discover Beer is Nicer if it Comes in a Fan Can

budlight.comTurns out those real men of marketing genius were onto something after all.​Remember the Bud Light Fan Cans? They were Anheuser-Busch's great marketing ploy in the early days of the 2009 college football season. The brewery produced special colorful cans of Bud Light that strangely eno ... More >>

World Cuppage: Brazil 2 - North Korea 1; Symbolic Caipirinhas at Yemanja Brasil

photos by Keegan HamiltonA shaker made from Bud Light can and a caipirinha: two essential ingredients for Brazilian soccer.​The caipirinha, a blend of lime, sugar and cachaça (fermented sugar cane), is the national cocktail of Brazil. At Yemanja Brasil in Benton Park, it's served in lowball glass ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 5.5

It's Cinco de Mayo - how many pickled jalapenos can you cram down your gullet? Eat Me Daily reports that a new world record in pickled jalapeno eating was set last weekend by some poor fool willing do down 275 of the vinegar heat bombs during double overtime. But he's a professional eater. The amat ... More >>

AB-InBev Brewery Workers Choose Between Buyouts and Layoffs

Image viaWho's behind the latest brewery lay-offs?​Like a shopper deciding between Bud Light and Bud Select, local brewery workers are stuck with two underwhelming options from AB-InBev: retire early or get laid off.We missed this story when it first appeared in last Friday's St. Louis Business Jo ... More >>

Watch the Bud Light "Clothing Drive" Commercial You Won't See During Super Bowl

Former hometown-owned "I'd like to congratulate Sarah on running the most successful clothing drive ever."​light beer Bud Light shared this commercial -- which won't be aired during the Super Bowl -- on Tuesday on its Facebook page. While not as racy as the ad featuring a guy trying to buy ... More >>

Anheuser-Busch Sends 350,000 Cans of Water To Haiti.

Image via Flickr​No, it's not actually Bud Light.As the brewer has done in the past when there's been a natural disaster and clean water is hard to come by, they ship in drinking water in what looks like plain white beer cans. As memory serves, last time they did this was after Hurricane Katrina.T ... More >>

The Axe Continues to Fall at Anheuser-Busch InBev

And this time more St. Louis jobs were on the chopping block. The once-local company announced last Friday afternoon -- prime time for issuing bad news press releases -- that a "small number" of domestic brewery workers were being laid off.Image Via​Via the St. Louis Business Journal:Jim Brickey, ... More >>

The Dive Bomber: Lunch and a Bucket at the Block House Saloon

​I lived near the Block House Saloon for eight years but never set foot in it. A woman I knew from our neighborhood diner worked there, and she always scared the shit out of me. Assuming she represented the staff and clientele, I kept my distance, even though the beautifully dilapidated building ... More >>

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 ev ... More >>

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 cle ... More >>

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 microbre ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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-maker ... More >>

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 ba ... More >>

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 suc ... More >>

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 j ... More >>

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. V ... More >>

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 cre ... More >>

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

Anheuser-Busch: King of Beers, Bud of Joke

Anheuser-Busch: King of Beers, Bud of Joke

In This Week's Issue

Bud Light Clamato Chilada

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A Gift From Blythe Hines

The Unreal Guide To Soulard Mardi Gras

Welcome, Willkommen, Bienvenue, Aloha, Shalom, Howdy!

Should I jump on the corn bandwagon?

Week of August 16, 2006

Boing!

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

Hotel Bars

Drink of the Week: A downtown highlight reel

Dried Out

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

Bridge to Nowhere

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

Check, Please

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

Party Like Grandpa

Jazz at the Bistro returns

O'Fallon Gold

636-474-2337

The Caipirinha

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

Piece of Cake

Atomic Cowboy, 7336 Manchester, 314-645-0608

Best Drive-Thru Liquor Store

Fly-By Liquors

All the Kings' Horses

The Busches, the Orthweins and other St. Louis royalty get down and dirty playing polo. It's the passion that grounds their lives.

Short Cuts