How is it that Budweiser is the best selling beer world-wide?

Question

Anyone who knows anything about beer knows that the major breweries in America can't hold anything to a European beer, so why are they outsold? Is it just marketing?

and no, budweiser wasn't "invented" longer

Answer 1

Here's my take...

for what it is, bud isn't cheap at all, it's comparable to all american pilsnery beers, but it is the most expensive of all of them...

also, there are a lot of people (a majority) who prefer the light, relatively flavorless american style of beer to the generally heavier european beers... don't forget, there are no absolutes here, it's opinion, not everyone thinks that european beers are better... i like most of them, but i have a problem with german beers, and they're supposed to be the original best or whatever...

the real answer is the bud advertises EVERYWHERE, and the beer is available EVERYWHERE... all around the world... and, despite the fact that everyone HATES america, there's still loads of people globally who wear levi's, smoke marlboros, and drink bud cos they're all-american things that people see in movies and stuff...

Answer 2

There are so many good beers in Europe that none gain that kind of market share. Here in the US imported beers tend to be more expensive and until fairly recently have been few and far between, so lots of Americans grow up with a warped sense of what a beer's supposed to taste like.

Answer 3

Millions of dollars in advertising as well as control over retailers. If Bud tells a bar or store that they do not want them to sell a particular beer, they have to listen or they will refuse to supply to them anymore. Bud does not want great beer on the shelves competing with them so they flex this muscle regularly. This amounts to not much more than extortion. The end result then is that when you walk into your local beer purveyor Bud is pretty much your only option. Hence their huge sales totals.

Answer 4

It's proof that good marketing and advertising dollars can sell s@@@ on a stick. I'm a home brewer that does buy commercially made beer, but Bud never makes my shopping list.

Answer 5

The Budwiser sold in Europe isn't the same as the Bud in the U.S. Theirs is made in Czechoslovakia and it tastes different. I learned that this past summer when we were in England.

Answer 6

That's a terrific question. In my eyes, the best beer around is Australia's "Victoria Bitter".

Answer 7

however i do no longer drink beer, this is a shame that u.s. has bought out. sometime none of could have jobs, everywhere, u.s., is now no longer the Richest u . s . a . interior the international, it now no longer is an spectacular u . s . a ., it has bought out the very people who made it super, the staff and the Veterans, who served this u . s . a .

Answer 8

The US has many more beer drinkers than Europe

Answer 9

I think because, one it is pretty cheap, but not the cheapest or crappiest beer, and two, it is American made, and a lot of Americans want to support that......
Just my two cents...

Answer 10

bud was invented for a long time