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Originally Posted by psychodad
AB has just done such a good job of marketing through the years that we tend to think of little else when choosing a beer.
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Most people are lemmings.
Budweiser is usually my float trip beer or softball beer because a 30 pack is cheap and I have to have canned beer in those two situations. Or, if a bar has them cheap for happy hour, I'll have it then. Full flavored (I use that term LOOSELY) American macro beers are all pretty much the same to me. Little flavor but not terrible to have. The only American macro light beer I will consider is Miller Lite, because it has the most flavor of any of them. Bud Light and Bud Select make me gag. Literally. I live in the St. Louis area, and we have two great breweries in this area that bottle/keg their beer and distribute. O'Fallon and Schlafly. We have 3 additional brew pubs/brew restaraunts in the area that make great beer. And they are all locally owned. I will have no problem keeping my beer money going towards American owned companies.
Long story short, I really don't have to boycott AB. They may have over 50% share of the American market, but they probably only have about a 3% share of my beer budget.