Budweiser

The Czech beer, the American Buidweiser opened about 1860.

Phil =====visit the New York City Homebrewers Guild website:

Phil, Phil, Phil...How many times have we been over this?

The American Budweiser, brewed by Anheuser-Busch, was first sold in American in 1876. The Czech beer that is today labeled as Budweiser, or Budvar, came second, in the 1890s. The "big traditions in brewing" in the Czech Republic count for little in this case; American brewing traditions are every bit as old, simply transplanted. European brewers came to America and brewed here.

What does count is that beer was being brewed in Budvar, or Budweis, for at least 100 years before the organization of the brewery that today brews Budweiser there. And naturally enough, these beers were generally referred to as "budweiser," or 'beer from Budweis.' Were they actually named that, and labeled that? Apparently not. Do we actually know when the type of beer replicated by the Czech Budweiser was first brewed? Other than a general assumption that it post-dates the 1842 origin of Pilsener, no, we don't, to the best of my limited knowledge. Does it predate American Budweiser? Probably, because indications are that American Budweiser was at least named for a similarly light-golden, crisp lager found in Budweis.

But if you're strictly asking which of the two beers currently labeled as Budweiser is the older, the answer is the American one. Which one is the "original" is a bit sticky, as it appears that neither one is.

I was wonder about the name.Because for me it's strange intersection of facts. The name of Czech town Budejovice with Budejovicki Budvar and on the other side earth the same name of beer.I see connection between.So I've just find somethink like this on the official website of Budvar

Lazi

...and British "bitter" originated in Bittenthwistle, Lancashire.

You end up with quite a few things in the States being named after or sharing names with European locations, thanks to immigrants naming things after what they were familiar with. It's why there's New York, for instance.

In the case of Budweiser, the Anheuser and Busch families are Germanic, as is obvious from the surnames. For a few hundred years, what's now the Czech Republic was part of the Austrian Empire (later Austrian-Hungarian Empire), so most town names had both their Czech and German forms. In this case, Budejovice and Budweis. In German, "Budweiser" simply means "from Budweis." Which explains why the name would be used in the States, and why the German name ended up being used instead of the Czech. Much of the U.S. has a huge German immigrant population; the Czechs never came over in large numbers.

-Steve

Well, it doesn't exactly explain why a beer "from St. Louis" would be called "from Budweis." But who am I to quibble?

Budweiser isn't even a beer.

Same reason beers from several thousand cities all over the planet are called "beer from Pisen"? Or how Wisconsin somehow produces "cheese from Parma," or California has "wine from Champagne"?

-Steve

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And "beer from Budweis" is parameterizably unique?

Dick-waving, it's all dick-waving.