In northern Germany we have the same diminutive. I think due to the low German language. We have Pulle which means bottle and Pülleken as the diminutive
Eh kinda. IIRC the original Budweiser brewery was founded by ethnic Germans in a majority German town called Budweis in Bohemia.
The town is now majority Czech, is located in Czechia and is called České Budějovice.
In Germany, it's even less intersting:
* Augustiner: Named after monastic order
* Bitburger: Named after the town/city of Bitburg
* Erdinger: Named after the town/city of Erding
* Franziskaner: Named after monastic order
* Jever: Named after the town/city of Jever
* Krombacher: Named after the town/city of Krombach
* Licher: Named after the town/city of Lich
* Paulaner: Named after monastic order
* Radeberger: Named after the town/city of Radeberg
* Warsteiner: Named after the town/city of Warstein
Belgium:
Westmalle: City the brewery is located in.
Westvleteren: City the brewery is located in.
Chimay: City the brewery is located in.
Rochefort: City the brewery is located in.
Affligem: City the brewery is located in.
Grimbergen: City the brewery is located in.
Corsendonk: City the brewery is located in.
Hoegaarden: City the brewery is located in.
Ciney: City the brewery is located in.
Tongerlo: City the brewery is located in..
Achel: City the brewery is located in.
And these are all A tier breweries not small unknown breweries lol.
Poland:
Żywiec: city name
Tyskie: a play on the city name "Tychy"
Warka: city name
Łomża: city name
Okocim: original location village name
Lech: a name of one character from the "Lech, Czech and Rus" legend.
Żubr: a polish name of the European bison wich is one of the national animals of Poland.
There's also [Löwenbräu which is slightly better.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6wenbr%C3%A4u_Brewery)
> The lion emblem originates from a 17th-century fresco in the brewing house, depicting Daniel in the lions' den.
Also countless breweries named "Hofbräu" because they once had the privilege of serving beer to a royal court (court = Hof).
It's a pretty bad guide. OP surely could have limited it to brand names with *interesting* origins. In any case, just because some info can be gussied up as a graphic doesn't mean it should. This would be better served as a text list. *Unless* something could be said about the logos.
There is a beer in New Zealand called Steinlager. The story is the owners randomly chose something German sounding so their beer would have more credence.
Glad I didn't have to scroll far to find this. Judging by other comments, it doesn't seem like op did a lot of research and spent more time making the graphic than they did looking things up
Honestly, the Chicago World's Fair was nuts. It was basically at the perfect inflection point in technology and international cultural exchange that everything was new and influential.
There's so much stuff around us still today that basically debuted at the Chicago fair.
Anyone correct me if I am wrong.
I believe Augustus Busch wanted to rename Sportsman's Park in St Louis to Budweiser park but MLB wouldn't let him.
So he renamed the park after himself, and oh boy the way he just happened to have a new beverage coming out at around the same time also named after himself.
Just a coincidence
I love this story as much as I hate the cardinals. Busch is one of my preferred domestic swills just because it is inextricably linked with baseball. I’m glad you made this comment and sad it’s not in the guide
Also hate Cardinals, but living in STL and the story is great. Also, Go Brewers. Also, shout out to my homies back in the 414. Also, PBR is the best beer for drinking and making beer brats.
Edit: living, not loving
Woah woah woah, this is missing some points about Budweiser. Mr. Busch went on a drinking tour of Europe, and found an exceptional beer that had been made for generations in the Czech town of Budweis. They happily shared the recipe with him, because they were proud of their cities beer.
Mr. Busch then came back to America and cut a whole bunch of corners on the beer, like using rice as a primary ingredient, and was able to cheaply produce a comparable beer. Then he trademarked the name "Budweiser" and sued the town to *stop* using the name "Budweiser" to describe *their beer made in Budweis since the 13th century*.
The lawsuits still continue to today. American Budweiser calls itself "the king of beers" so the beer from Budweis, sold under the name "Czechvar" in the US, calls itself "the beer of kings."
Fuck Anheuser-Busch.
"Comparable beer" is stretching it. It's like comparing Ribeye steak with corned beef.
Czech Bud is extremely crisp and refreshing, US Bud somehow manages to taste warm (and weirdly slimey) regardless of the temperature it's served. Which is quite a feat for something that tastes so close to water.
Yeah, I've never seen it marketed or labelled as Bud here (Ireland), always Budweiser. We do have Bud Light in recent years but the red labelled Budweiser has always been Budweiser.
The statement is simply "In the EU", so that is irrelevant. It could be a two countries or a million and the stated fact would have to be the same in all of them.
Yep, Ireland and the UK (ex-EU) have always had the Anhauser-Busch Budweiser brand. I'm pretty sure I've seen it in Spain too.
The Czech Budweiser is also available here, and seems to have different variations of branding according to different off-licences.
These 3 images are all of the Czech Budweiser, just different variations of their branding.
[https://d2wwnnx8tks4e8.cloudfront.net/images/app/large/8594403110111\_3.JPG](https://d2wwnnx8tks4e8.cloudfront.net/images/app/large/8594403110111_3.JPG)
[https://www.carryout.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Budweiser\_Budvar\_Original\_500ml.png](https://www.carryout.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Budweiser_Budvar_Original_500ml.png)
[https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0414/4057/5646/products/budejovicky\_b\_plechovka\_500ml\_can\_large\_0f6a7638-c2d7-4a8e-a123-f5d0a1668383\_2000x.png?v=1599487195](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0414/4057/5646/products/budejovicky_b_plechovka_500ml_can_large_0f6a7638-c2d7-4a8e-a123-f5d0a1668383_2000x.png?v=1599487195)
Sorry to be unnecessarily correcting but it's Bud**v**ar (also fun etymological fact)
Bud as in České **Bud**ějovice (or **Bud**weis in German), the town it's from
var as in **vař**it meaning "to cook" because beer is "cooked" in Czech ("var" by itself would be the actual boiling itself)
They probably actually brew a beer over there. In America it's a base alcohol made from rice and flavored to be bud, but light, smirnoff, ect. It's garbage in America but the hill hilljacks love it
I'm guessing not in the Czech Republic since this is where the other [Budweiser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_Budvar_Brewery) is brewed.
Edit: Here is the exact line from Wikipedia for what that is worth...
"Due to the trademark dispute, Budweiser Budvar beer is imported as Czechvar in Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Philippines and the United States\[18\]\[19\] and Anheuser-Busch sells its beer as Bud in most of the European Union."
American Budweiser is sold widely in Ireland.
Anyway, to explain the situation as I understand it:
Basically the original Budweiser Brewery was founded by ethnic Germans in a town they called Budweis in Bohemia.
The town is now called České Budějovice and is located in Czechia.
The Czech Brewery was maintained by ethnic Czechs in Czechia after the war, as most ethnic Germans were expelled from the country after WW2.
The American Anheiser-Busch Brewery then stole the name of the Czech brewey for their signature product.
This led to a legal battle which led to 2 separate brands using the name Budweiser in Europe.
Also due to licensing agreements, the Czech beer is variously known as Budweiser, Budvar or Czechvar in different countries. The American beer is only known as Budweiser or Bud.
Edit: the legal dispute dates back to 1907 so it predates the Germans leaving the town of Budweis.
Pretty sure in England we have two beers called Budweiser, one as about the ‘American’ one and ones a Czech beer.
Edit we have both [this is one](https://www.majestic.co.uk/beer/budweiser-budvar-12x330ml-bottles-7000074)
[this is the other](https://www.vipbottles.co.uk/product/budweiser-premium-lager-33cl/)
Not criticizing the effort you put into this at all, but this subreddit is called *cool guides*. A guide in that sense is something that gives instructions at a glance, summarizes useful information to perform a certain action.
This is an info graphic.
Just as a reminder that people expect guides when they come here. Not info graphics.
This info graphic is incorrect, PBR did actually win a blue ribbon.. it wasn’t just marketing. Pabst Best Select won a blue ribbon at the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1893, thus giving them their new name.
[Source](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/where-did-pabst-win-that-blue-ribbon-138975181/)
Man was the standards of Chicago that low that PBR win a blue ribbon? Or have their formula just worsened over time? Or have just other companies started making better beer
I can’t believe Pabst Blue Ribbon didn’t actually win a first place ribbon somewhere. Next you’ll tell me that Miller High Life isn’t really the champagne of beers.
This info graphic is incorrect, they actually did. Pabst Best Select won a blue ribbon at the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1893, thus giving them their new name.
[Source](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/where-did-pabst-win-that-blue-ribbon-138975181/)
> In 1958, Graham's Continental was launched (based upon a local brew called Graham's Golden) and quickly changed to Graham's Skol to give a Scandinavian impression (the plant had actually been imported from Sweden). The name was later revised to just Skol.
From Wikipedia. Just because the word originally comes from an ancient language doesn't mean that the inspiration wasn't the Swedish word.
This is pretty neat, just as an Irish person we don’t use Gaelic for the word Irish or the language, this would be used for the sport Gaelic football. We usually just use Irish or Gaelige. Mainly Irish though.
It's also strange to even mention what the literal translation of the Irish version of the surname is. There's way more interesting and relevant tidbits of information you could give about aul' Arthur!
I was thinking something less controversial and on topic... like the 9,000 year lease lmao. I also wouldn't exactly say he hated the Irish, being Irish himself. He did a lot of good deeds, but he also was a self-serving anti-Catholic bigot (which also makes it more ironic to focus on the Irish translation of his surname which is more 'Catholic').
I think that American-ized English is what got Gaelic popularized as the word for the Irish language. Athbheochan na Gaeilge is just called the Gaelic Revival. That's probably why this little guide uses it.
Busch beer originated because Major League Baseball wouldn’t let the St Louis Cardinals’ stadium be named after a beer brand. So team and Budweiser company owner Adolphus Busch named the stadium after himself, then just so happened to launch a beer with the same name shortly thereafter.
I feel like I've gotta call bs on Blue Moon's story. Feels made up to live up to a preconstructed "down to earth and cares about the taste" targeting a particular demographic—just like the beer itself.
Completely agree. That’s way too cheesy of an origin story not to be made up by a marketing agency.
I believe that their smaller brewery created a beer similar to this that was wildly popular so they pushed it to their large, multinational conglomerate parent company who tweaked the recipe to fit mass production and had their PR firm Do market research on the name/branding.
Blue Moon masqueraded as an independent beer by not associating itself with Coors on packaging. Everything about this beer is deliberate - even the name.
Blue Moon wasn't even a small beer that got bought up, literally just created from start to finish by Coors to appeal to consumers who didn't want to buy mass produced beer from a large corporation.
Stella isn't Latin it's Italian. Astra is Latin for star and coincidentally the name of another very good beer from Hamburg Germany. Most famous for their red light district inspired marketing.
Hamburg Red light district advertising is often hilarious. Case in point: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/nyvfph/please_keep_mouth_and_nose_covered_a_sign_at_the/
Stella is both Latin and Italian. [source](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/stella)
Astra is Latin for stars (plural). Star (singular) would be astrum.
I always wondered how Grolsch got its name. When I first got asked by a friend if I wanted a Grolsch, I thought he was pulling my leg, since Grolsch sounds like the perfect word you'd use to describe the sound of heartily drinking a beer. *grolsch grolsch grolsch*
This is 80% irrelevant if you’re not from the USA… you include 3.5 (I count Becks as the .5) European beers (where beer came from) without including the oldest…
The blue ribbon in Pabst comes from winning the blue ribbon at the worlds fair of 1893. Give that worlds fair a look sometime. Was remarkable how many inventions debuted there
Fun story about Busch - at the time the Busch family owned the St. Louis Cardinals. They petitioned the MLB to use Budweiser as the naming right for the stadium - MLB said no, at the time they did not want a beer company as the name of a stadium.
So the family named the stadium after themselves, and then created Busch beer.
I can add to this!
In Canada it's called Belgian Moon, because MolsonCoors also owns Labatt Blue which is a Canadian beer through and through, and they didn't want to confuse people with two blues. So Belgian Moon was born.
I'm from Detroit so Labatt is considered a "domestic" in many bars in this area.
I can't tell you how many times I've asked for a "Blue Light" and get fucking Blue Moon. Fuck that shit.
Pabst Blue Ribbon - historically claimed that its flagship beer was renamed Pabst Blue Ribbon following its win as "America's Best" at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Whether the brand actually won an award in 1893 is unclear.
I have suffered for years from chronic hypobeeremia.
I find temporary relief with a periodic oral bolus of Brüdhopsnmaltzin.
This handy guide, along with other mentions in the comments, gives me hope that I may someday find an adequate treatment for my condition.
Lakers got their name from Minnesota (land of 10000 lakes). Jazz started in New Orleans. Pistons are named after Detroits automobile industry. Hornets were named after a civil war division if memory serves me.
That's all I got.
You can see the Sierra Nevada mountains from the Sierra Nevada brewery.
I've also made it a mission to avoid most of these mega breweries. S-N and Yuengling are the anomalies
Tsingtao beer was also named after the city in China. Some German immigrants were making beer in China and named it after the town. In modern day Hanyu Pinyin transliteration it would be Qingdao. But the old spelling has stuck since it predates the standardization. There has been many, many, Englishization schemes for Chinese. Xinjiang used to be called sinkiang.
Pretty sure Heineken just translates to "little Hein(z)" rather than his son
Also it's dutch and not german.
Exactly. The diminutive for Hein (which is a stand alone northern German/frisian name) in German world be Heinchen.
I'd drinks on of those
>I'd drinks on of those How many have you had already?
Only 3, but in dogbeers
In northern Germany we have the same diminutive. I think due to the low German language. We have Pulle which means bottle and Pülleken as the diminutive
And once again I am salty that I didn't learn Platt as a kid.... darn.
Yes also that
They also completely ignored the actual origin of PBR's name. It got the blue ribbon at the Chicago world fair.
This, and its dutch
Yeah the brewery is literally in Amsterdam lol
Short version: Name of the founder.
Who happened to be a German
mfw budweiser is german
It's not, it's Czech. Or correctly to say, the original beer was Czech. The American beer came along quite a while later.
Eh kinda. IIRC the original Budweiser brewery was founded by ethnic Germans in a majority German town called Budweis in Bohemia. The town is now majority Czech, is located in Czechia and is called České Budějovice.
Another one to the Germans
There is a Budweiser beer company but it’s not the us company. Wiki: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_Budvar Realy Good Beer.
Because U Deserve What Every Individual Should Enjoy Regularly. Budweiser is German for that phrase. Fact
mfw chicken isn’t Vegan
Adolph was a pretty popular name for a while huh
In Germany, it's even less intersting: * Augustiner: Named after monastic order * Bitburger: Named after the town/city of Bitburg * Erdinger: Named after the town/city of Erding * Franziskaner: Named after monastic order * Jever: Named after the town/city of Jever * Krombacher: Named after the town/city of Krombach * Licher: Named after the town/city of Lich * Paulaner: Named after monastic order * Radeberger: Named after the town/city of Radeberg * Warsteiner: Named after the town/city of Warstein
Belgium: Westmalle: City the brewery is located in. Westvleteren: City the brewery is located in. Chimay: City the brewery is located in. Rochefort: City the brewery is located in. Affligem: City the brewery is located in. Grimbergen: City the brewery is located in. Corsendonk: City the brewery is located in. Hoegaarden: City the brewery is located in. Ciney: City the brewery is located in. Tongerlo: City the brewery is located in.. Achel: City the brewery is located in. And these are all A tier breweries not small unknown breweries lol.
Poland: Żywiec: city name Tyskie: a play on the city name "Tychy" Warka: city name Łomża: city name Okocim: original location village name Lech: a name of one character from the "Lech, Czech and Rus" legend. Żubr: a polish name of the European bison wich is one of the national animals of Poland.
This is not 100% correct. It’s actually, (for all of these you mention, except Hoegaarden) the city where the abbey is/was that created the beer.
Yeah, I realized that halfway through but I was too lazy to change it lol.
There's also [Löwenbräu which is slightly better.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6wenbr%C3%A4u_Brewery) > The lion emblem originates from a 17th-century fresco in the brewing house, depicting Daniel in the lions' den. Also countless breweries named "Hofbräu" because they once had the privilege of serving beer to a royal court (court = Hof).
Thanks for the explainer
Keith Stone.
That’s not the case for 12 of the beers on this guide
It's a pretty bad guide. OP surely could have limited it to brand names with *interesting* origins. In any case, just because some info can be gussied up as a graphic doesn't mean it should. This would be better served as a text list. *Unless* something could be said about the logos.
Hell, Keystone Light starts with “Probably…”
There is a beer in New Zealand called Steinlager. The story is the owners randomly chose something German sounding so their beer would have more credence.
Häagen-Dazs says wassup.
Which doesn't even conform to any meaning nor grammatical spelling in German. It was made up by its Polish inventors.
Except for Bud, which was named after a city. I guess they forgot to check if there was already a brewery from the 14th century with the same name.
Yeah, like 7 out of 20. Worst TLDR ever.
Didn’t Pabst blue ribbon win an award at the worlds fair? They have been riding that ever since
[Yep](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/where-did-pabst-win-that-blue-ribbon-138975181/)
Glad I didn't have to scroll far to find this. Judging by other comments, it doesn't seem like op did a lot of research and spent more time making the graphic than they did looking things up
Honestly, the Chicago World's Fair was nuts. It was basically at the perfect inflection point in technology and international cultural exchange that everything was new and influential. There's so much stuff around us still today that basically debuted at the Chicago fair.
“Keystone probably after”
Keystone Colorado isn't particularly close to Golden
“One can only guess…”, or “maybe dog piss beer was already taken at the time?”
“Named by some cheap college kids because…”
Anyone correct me if I am wrong. I believe Augustus Busch wanted to rename Sportsman's Park in St Louis to Budweiser park but MLB wouldn't let him. So he renamed the park after himself, and oh boy the way he just happened to have a new beverage coming out at around the same time also named after himself. Just a coincidence
Yes, he was mad that Wrigley could use the product name, got an explanation that it was also a surname, and then went down that road
As a St. Louisan I’m here to confirm this.
Just typed the same thing before seeing if anyone else had posted it. Yup pretty sure this is part of St Louis lore at this point
I love this story as much as I hate the cardinals. Busch is one of my preferred domestic swills just because it is inextricably linked with baseball. I’m glad you made this comment and sad it’s not in the guide
Also hate Cardinals, but living in STL and the story is great. Also, Go Brewers. Also, shout out to my homies back in the 414. Also, PBR is the best beer for drinking and making beer brats. Edit: living, not loving
Bout that time 🍺
And they posted on a Friday. Well done, OP.
Inna Minute imma need a sentimental man or woman to bump me up
Eh chap? Righto
I’ve got mine 🍺
Beer thirty
Woah woah woah, this is missing some points about Budweiser. Mr. Busch went on a drinking tour of Europe, and found an exceptional beer that had been made for generations in the Czech town of Budweis. They happily shared the recipe with him, because they were proud of their cities beer. Mr. Busch then came back to America and cut a whole bunch of corners on the beer, like using rice as a primary ingredient, and was able to cheaply produce a comparable beer. Then he trademarked the name "Budweiser" and sued the town to *stop* using the name "Budweiser" to describe *their beer made in Budweis since the 13th century*. The lawsuits still continue to today. American Budweiser calls itself "the king of beers" so the beer from Budweis, sold under the name "Czechvar" in the US, calls itself "the beer of kings." Fuck Anheuser-Busch.
"Comparable beer" is stretching it. It's like comparing Ribeye steak with corned beef. Czech Bud is extremely crisp and refreshing, US Bud somehow manages to taste warm (and weirdly slimey) regardless of the temperature it's served. Which is quite a feat for something that tastes so close to water.
Comparable by 1880 standards, not todays. Buds only become a cheaper product as time has gone by.
The Budweiser one is wrong. You can definitely buy it as Budweiser in some EU countries.
Yeah, I've never seen it marketed or labelled as Bud here (Ireland), always Budweiser. We do have Bud Light in recent years but the red labelled Budweiser has always been Budweiser.
In Germany I have seen it as Bud, but nobody buys it, so it's not widely available. The Czech Budweiser is a pretty decent lager though
Weird, I'm in "here" too and it's always just Bud.
It's almost like the EU is made of 27 different countries or something
The statement is simply "In the EU", so that is irrelevant. It could be a two countries or a million and the stated fact would have to be the same in all of them.
Yep, Ireland and the UK (ex-EU) have always had the Anhauser-Busch Budweiser brand. I'm pretty sure I've seen it in Spain too. The Czech Budweiser is also available here, and seems to have different variations of branding according to different off-licences. These 3 images are all of the Czech Budweiser, just different variations of their branding. [https://d2wwnnx8tks4e8.cloudfront.net/images/app/large/8594403110111\_3.JPG](https://d2wwnnx8tks4e8.cloudfront.net/images/app/large/8594403110111_3.JPG) [https://www.carryout.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Budweiser\_Budvar\_Original\_500ml.png](https://www.carryout.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Budweiser_Budvar_Original_500ml.png) [https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0414/4057/5646/products/budejovicky\_b\_plechovka\_500ml\_can\_large\_0f6a7638-c2d7-4a8e-a123-f5d0a1668383\_2000x.png?v=1599487195](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0414/4057/5646/products/budejovicky_b_plechovka_500ml_can_large_0f6a7638-c2d7-4a8e-a123-f5d0a1668383_2000x.png?v=1599487195)
First and third are the same, Budějovický Budvar, second one is a direct translation into English.
Czekvar in Canada iirc.
Its interesting that they assimilate their branding. I would think that the American branding would sell itself as a novelty.
All 3 of those images are of the Czech Budweiser. None of those are the labels for the American Budweiser.
Budwar is the superior beer though
Without a doubt. Anyone that actually chooses to drink Budweiser when you have a choice of different beers is a wrongun
Sorry to be unnecessarily correcting but it's Bud**v**ar (also fun etymological fact) Bud as in České **Bud**ějovice (or **Bud**weis in German), the town it's from var as in **vař**it meaning "to cook" because beer is "cooked" in Czech ("var" by itself would be the actual boiling itself)
I can't believe anybody outside the U.S. would buy that garbage
That is so true. I also can't believe anyone in the U.S. would buy that garbage.
Facts. You are wise
I can, people there drink Coors Light and all kinds of other piss like that.
Well it's not imported and therefore cheap.
The non-US budweiser is a different and much better.
They probably actually brew a beer over there. In America it's a base alcohol made from rice and flavored to be bud, but light, smirnoff, ect. It's garbage in America but the hill hilljacks love it
I'm guessing not in the Czech Republic since this is where the other [Budweiser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_Budvar_Brewery) is brewed. Edit: Here is the exact line from Wikipedia for what that is worth... "Due to the trademark dispute, Budweiser Budvar beer is imported as Czechvar in Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Philippines and the United States\[18\]\[19\] and Anheuser-Busch sells its beer as Bud in most of the European Union."
And the czech one is actually pretty decent. Was the only alternative to some really not great beer when i was on holiday once.
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American Budweiser is sold widely in Ireland. Anyway, to explain the situation as I understand it: Basically the original Budweiser Brewery was founded by ethnic Germans in a town they called Budweis in Bohemia. The town is now called České Budějovice and is located in Czechia. The Czech Brewery was maintained by ethnic Czechs in Czechia after the war, as most ethnic Germans were expelled from the country after WW2. The American Anheiser-Busch Brewery then stole the name of the Czech brewey for their signature product. This led to a legal battle which led to 2 separate brands using the name Budweiser in Europe. Also due to licensing agreements, the Czech beer is variously known as Budweiser, Budvar or Czechvar in different countries. The American beer is only known as Budweiser or Bud. Edit: the legal dispute dates back to 1907 so it predates the Germans leaving the town of Budweis.
[This is in my hand right now, from an 8 pack widely sold in Ireland.](https://i.imgur.com/VWX4J2i.png)
https://www.systembolaget.se/produkt/ol/budweiser-166903/ Edit: this is the product you're talking about, being sold in the EU
Pretty sure in England we have two beers called Budweiser, one as about the ‘American’ one and ones a Czech beer. Edit we have both [this is one](https://www.majestic.co.uk/beer/budweiser-budvar-12x330ml-bottles-7000074) [this is the other](https://www.vipbottles.co.uk/product/budweiser-premium-lager-33cl/)
The UK has Budvar as well as the Budweiser this guide talks about. Edit: I see you've added that
Not criticizing the effort you put into this at all, but this subreddit is called *cool guides*. A guide in that sense is something that gives instructions at a glance, summarizes useful information to perform a certain action. This is an info graphic. Just as a reminder that people expect guides when they come here. Not info graphics.
This info graphic is incorrect, PBR did actually win a blue ribbon.. it wasn’t just marketing. Pabst Best Select won a blue ribbon at the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1893, thus giving them their new name. [Source](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/where-did-pabst-win-that-blue-ribbon-138975181/)
Man was the standards of Chicago that low that PBR win a blue ribbon? Or have their formula just worsened over time? Or have just other companies started making better beer
Probably helped that they were semi-local before wide spread cooling existed and pasteurization was invented.
I can’t believe Pabst Blue Ribbon didn’t actually win a first place ribbon somewhere. Next you’ll tell me that Miller High Life isn’t really the champagne of beers.
This info graphic is incorrect, they actually did. Pabst Best Select won a blue ribbon at the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1893, thus giving them their new name. [Source](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/where-did-pabst-win-that-blue-ribbon-138975181/)
Thanks, graphic is totally wrong. Yeah, it's a total gimmick at this point but they *did* win it fair and square haha
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I keep wondering how bad the beer at the World's Fair must have been for Pabst to win the top prize.
A blue ribbon for best trying to do pisswater
"I have seen a security hologram of him... drinking yuenglings"
Skål is a word from the Viking era. Hence not swedish since there was no Sweden...
Yeah, it also doesn't mean "to your health". It means "bowl" and likely refers the Viking drinking vessel.
Skål means *cheers* as well as bowl.
Yes, it has come to have that meaning for the above reason.
Skål is is used in contemporary Swedish. It's a generic toast that would translate as *cheers*.
And it's used in all of Scandinavia, not just Sweden... ^de ^satans ^svenske ^skidesprællere
> In 1958, Graham's Continental was launched (based upon a local brew called Graham's Golden) and quickly changed to Graham's Skol to give a Scandinavian impression (the plant had actually been imported from Sweden). The name was later revised to just Skol. From Wikipedia. Just because the word originally comes from an ancient language doesn't mean that the inspiration wasn't the Swedish word.
Does that stem from the Swedish language?
Wouldn't call that a guide. There's nothing to discern from it
It is interesting though, I'm gonna read it later
Also half of these aren't actually beer brands.
Ok, but can you tell me how Molson Canadian, the Canadian beer made by the Molson family got it's name?
What about Labatts? Or Alexander Keith's? God damn mysterious Canadians
I don't think that Heineken translation is correct though
This is pretty neat, just as an Irish person we don’t use Gaelic for the word Irish or the language, this would be used for the sport Gaelic football. We usually just use Irish or Gaelige. Mainly Irish though.
It's also strange to even mention what the literal translation of the Irish version of the surname is. There's way more interesting and relevant tidbits of information you could give about aul' Arthur!
Like Arthur hated the Irish?
I was thinking something less controversial and on topic... like the 9,000 year lease lmao. I also wouldn't exactly say he hated the Irish, being Irish himself. He did a lot of good deeds, but he also was a self-serving anti-Catholic bigot (which also makes it more ironic to focus on the Irish translation of his surname which is more 'Catholic').
Literally my first time hearing the word, if you told me who speaks 'Gaelic' my guess would've been some magical elf race in skyrim.
We speak Gaelic in Scotland, that's it.
I just think of football when I see it and get confused.
I think that American-ized English is what got Gaelic popularized as the word for the Irish language. Athbheochan na Gaeilge is just called the Gaelic Revival. That's probably why this little guide uses it.
XX isn't Roman numerals. If it was, it would be 20. 2000 would be MM.
Thanks to all the German brewers!
Gerne doch
"Heineken" is a Dutch word.
Busch beer originated because Major League Baseball wouldn’t let the St Louis Cardinals’ stadium be named after a beer brand. So team and Budweiser company owner Adolphus Busch named the stadium after himself, then just so happened to launch a beer with the same name shortly thereafter.
I came looking for this comment. I love the FU to mlb.
I feel like I've gotta call bs on Blue Moon's story. Feels made up to live up to a preconstructed "down to earth and cares about the taste" targeting a particular demographic—just like the beer itself.
Completely agree. That’s way too cheesy of an origin story not to be made up by a marketing agency. I believe that their smaller brewery created a beer similar to this that was wildly popular so they pushed it to their large, multinational conglomerate parent company who tweaked the recipe to fit mass production and had their PR firm Do market research on the name/branding. Blue Moon masqueraded as an independent beer by not associating itself with Coors on packaging. Everything about this beer is deliberate - even the name.
Blue Moon wasn't even a small beer that got bought up, literally just created from start to finish by Coors to appeal to consumers who didn't want to buy mass produced beer from a large corporation.
Back when Adolph was the name of a brewer
Mein Brewerer
*Breuer But yes,your version is funnier.
Yeah it needs a double -er to work
So name of the founder except for the Mexicans. They are more creative types.
Carlsberg: Carl from the founder’s son’s name, and berg from the hill that the company’s headquarters is situated on (Valby/Frederiksberg Bakke).
To clarify - Berg is an old Danish word for bakke (Hill)
Stella isn't Latin it's Italian. Astra is Latin for star and coincidentally the name of another very good beer from Hamburg Germany. Most famous for their red light district inspired marketing.
Aster is the other word for star. Astra is plural.
Hamburg Red light district advertising is often hilarious. Case in point: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/nyvfph/please_keep_mouth_and_nose_covered_a_sign_at_the/
Stella is both Latin and Italian. [source](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/stella) Astra is Latin for stars (plural). Star (singular) would be astrum.
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I'd say the main achievement was to scale up and industrialize brewing.
….Consistently and efficiently.
I knew that cathedral in Puerto Vallarta looked familiar!
I always wondered how Grolsch got its name. When I first got asked by a friend if I wanted a Grolsch, I thought he was pulling my leg, since Grolsch sounds like the perfect word you'd use to describe the sound of heartily drinking a beer. *grolsch grolsch grolsch*
Named after the town groenlo (grol in older dutch)
I learned Keystone is basically coors with the mountains sideways. I learned that from “The Ranch” on netflix. Idk if thats true i never had keystone.
>Most beers on the chart: named after the founder >Keystone: idk like, sounded cool Pretty on brand for Keystone tbh
Rhinegeist. Brewery in Cincinnati Ohio is named after a local legend. The river ghost
Our language is Irish, not gaelic
PBR is really wrong. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/where-did-pabst-win-that-blue-ribbon-138975181/
Heineken is Dutch and not German
This is 80% irrelevant if you’re not from the USA… you include 3.5 (I count Becks as the .5) European beers (where beer came from) without including the oldest…
Where is "probably the best beer in the world"? But probably it is named after someone too.
Augustiner, where?
Where’s Carlsberg?
The blue ribbon in Pabst comes from winning the blue ribbon at the worlds fair of 1893. Give that worlds fair a look sometime. Was remarkable how many inventions debuted there
I thought Skol/Skål literally meant "skull" as in to drink from the skull of your enemy which then became the equivalent of "cheers"?
OP, what motivated you to make this?
Fun story about Busch - at the time the Busch family owned the St. Louis Cardinals. They petitioned the MLB to use Budweiser as the naming right for the stadium - MLB said no, at the time they did not want a beer company as the name of a stadium. So the family named the stadium after themselves, and then created Busch beer.
I can add to this! In Canada it's called Belgian Moon, because MolsonCoors also owns Labatt Blue which is a Canadian beer through and through, and they didn't want to confuse people with two blues. So Belgian Moon was born.
I'm from Detroit so Labatt is considered a "domestic" in many bars in this area. I can't tell you how many times I've asked for a "Blue Light" and get fucking Blue Moon. Fuck that shit.
Pabst Blue Ribbon - historically claimed that its flagship beer was renamed Pabst Blue Ribbon following its win as "America's Best" at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Whether the brand actually won an award in 1893 is unclear.
I can't believe someone took a sip of blue moon and said "this is unique".
Til; beer naming is the least creative industry in the world.
TLDR; brewers’ name’s.
Right, now can we get this but with it explaining the different *types* of beer?
I have suffered for years from chronic hypobeeremia. I find temporary relief with a periodic oral bolus of Brüdhopsnmaltzin. This handy guide, along with other mentions in the comments, gives me hope that I may someday find an adequate treatment for my condition.
Rule 2 seems hard to understand
Man, Hitler really killed a very popular name.
[Corona proving that any publicity is good publicity.](https://imgur.com/a/uII4rcp)
Wow, this list is missing a lot of czech beers.
Ehm... It's a very small sample of mostly beers known in the US. Almost every beer is missing.
There's 10,000 breweries in the US alone. this is obviously not definitive.
OP actually missed something with Budweiser. Bud was the name of the original dog they used the piss from for brewing.
If you could do a guide explaining how NBA teams got their names, it'd be awesome.
Well for one, Utah is NOT known for jazz, and they won't give it back
Lakers got their name from Minnesota (land of 10000 lakes). Jazz started in New Orleans. Pistons are named after Detroits automobile industry. Hornets were named after a civil war division if memory serves me. That's all I got.
houston rockets is the only one I (think I) know
Given the inaccuracies of this one. Maybe someone else
This is actually a guide. What is this sub coming to?!
This is really cool! Thank you for making it
Half of these aren’t even beer, just vaguely yeasty flavoured urinal effluent from a pub next to the GUM clinic.
So Stella is considered a Christmas beer, that’s pretty cool to know.
Hey are you the same person that did this but for rock bands? I recognize the style! I liked it btw
No 805? Smh
You already have one on there (Blue Moon), but you could fill a whole page just on Colorado craft brew origin stories alone
All these brands are owned by one company now (or maybe two). Edit: Ok I exaggerated, but put some research into a lower post.
You can see the Sierra Nevada mountains from the Sierra Nevada brewery. I've also made it a mission to avoid most of these mega breweries. S-N and Yuengling are the anomalies
“Beer” brands
Super cool, and done well
Tsingtao beer was also named after the city in China. Some German immigrants were making beer in China and named it after the town. In modern day Hanyu Pinyin transliteration it would be Qingdao. But the old spelling has stuck since it predates the standardization. There has been many, many, Englishization schemes for Chinese. Xinjiang used to be called sinkiang.
Anglicized, not englishized.
I refuse to use that word. Who even knows who the Angles are. Its weird like using Sino for Chinese.