My friend in Germany sent this to me. The price is €0.75 per can after a discount using the grocery’s app.
I looked up the price locally for me (Washington state, hence the asterisk) at the Kroger-affiliated Fred Meyer, and it was on sale for $23 for a 24 pack of Budweiser. That boils down to €0.81 per can.
*In the title was to acknowledge that Washington state is expensive and I’m sure elsewhere in the country you could find a better deal. But for my little corner of the country, the title holds true.
**My fellow continent-dweller pointed out that our 12oz beers are actually 355ml, and the 330ml can is smaller. Proportionally that brings the price down to exactly €0.75 per can from my benchmark. Add that to a TIL for me.
Most beer is and always was. Though when in Germany you’d be a fucking fool to drink that swill vs nearly any other offering.
Agreed. I just usually assume the price to import and such would keep the price higher overseas.
Moreso pointing out that we are getting robbed on prices even for our domestic offerings
I expect it’s not an import, but produced under license somwhere in Europe. There’s big brewing operations in UK and Croatia that makes it.
Budweiser was bought by InBev, the same company that makes Stella Artois and Beck. That would give InBev the right to make Budweiser anywhere it owns a brewery.
That or Budweiser doesn’t get charged duties cuz it’s just that bad, so the govt doesn’t see it as a threat to domestically produced beer 😂
They have to make it dirt cheap because it has to compete with real beers here.
Germans were mocking Budweiser when I visited there 30 years ago.
We are still mocking the “beer” that is like sex in a canoe…
And well you should!
That’s because the American economy is collapsing.
Just did a quick look in Alberta, Canada. Best price I could find was $26.99/15, or $1.80/can. That converts to €1.11 per can.
Cans are 355ml though, instead of the German 330ml.
EDIT Cans in the US are probably 355ml as well. If they were scaled down to 330ml, the price would be…
€0.75. Same as Germany.
Oh wow, good catch - I always assumed the 330ml was 12oz, never actually checked.
330ml would be €1.03 in your example.
Also, as far as I know Germany already has the sales tax included in the retail prices that are shown.
Safe to drink urine is much more difficult to come by considering the medical infrastructure here in the US.
The reason is called ‘Bud’ and not ‘Budweiser’ is because there is a Czech town called Budjeovice, or ‘Budweis’ in German. Be from that town is called ‘Budweiser’ as in ‘from Budweis’.
It’s that name Mr Busch used when making a bohemian style lager in the US. Then when the iron curtain fell and the beer from the actual town entered the International market AB InBev made a huge stink, forcing the beer to use a different name in the USA (it’s sold as Czechvar).
But then the European Union responded by honoring the ‘appellation contrôlé’ ruling, where a brand that used a place name is protected, so that only products from that geographical location van use the name.
This is why they have to sell it as bud. But when comparing the beers they should’ve gone with ‘butt’. People know this and don’t buy the shitty American stuff. All budget grade beers in Germany are better than it.
Surprised they can sell bud for even that price in Germany
Would not pay that for earwax flavoured fizzy water in a place where you can get some of the finest ales in the world for about the same price.
People who have tried this and are used to European beer - is it really that bad?
As a naive kid I was kind of a “USA fan”, looking forward to try Anheuser-Busch Budweiser (Light or regular) at least once and thought this to be impossible in Germany due to Budweiser-Budvar holding the trademark here.
I was even recently tempted to buy and try it, although I have been completely and strictly dry since taking SSRIs. Then I remembered multiple sources claiming it’s piss, and decided against it.
Makes me wonder why that stuff is so popular in the USA.
does anyone drink it out there? the branding looks completely different as well lol
Does any German actually want to drink it?
Ducks and runs for cover
It’s not exactly one of the top brands (or even all that well known unless you grew up with the internet, tbh) over here, can’t sell it for much when there are literally dozens of way more popular brand around :-P
