Screw Bud Light, just serve whiskey! Corn is a main ingredient in whiskey so problem solved I'd rather have a whiskey drink than a domestic piss light beer anyways.
From what I understand, corn syrup is worse for you than cane or sugar beet sugar. However, I'm sure you can find scientists/health experts that disagree with this. I tend to agree that it is worse, although both are really bad. Like others have said, by the time you get the finished beer product, I don't think it makes a bit of difference. I think a lot of people are becoming anti corn in general (anti corn syrup, pro grass fed beef, etc.) which is why Bud Light put out that ad, I suppose.Light beer is for sissy's anyway (ducking to avoid the angry responses). Just kidding, but I have a serious question, what is everyone's issue with corn syrup? Isn't it just a form of sugar? Is it more unhealthy? Does it cause cancer? Doesn't pure cane sugar make you fat too?
From what I understand, corn syrup is worse for you than cane or sugar beet sugar. However, I'm sure you can find scientists/health experts that disagree with this. I tend to agree that it is worse, although both are really bad. Like others have said, by the time you get the finished beer product, I don't think it makes a bit of difference. I think a lot of people are becoming anti corn in general (anti corn syrup, pro grass fed beef, etc.) which is why Bud Light put out that ad, I suppose.
I'm sure most of you have heard about the feud between Corn Growers and Bud Light over the corn syrup commercials. Here the level of pettiness that this has reached.
The National Corn and SB Growers Associations sponsors a huge grower conference every year called Commodity Classic. A good client of mine exhibits there and has a social hour at their booth 2 nights. The person that takes care of the booth for my client was ordering beer for this years event in Orlando. He ordered a keg of Abita Amber (Good choice) and a keg of Sweetwater 420.
An hour later the conference rep called him back and said they could not serve Sweetwater 420 at the conference because it goes through an Anheuser-Bush owned distributor in FL. So the Corn Growers pettiness punished a craft brewery because Bud Light made them mad.
This whole situation is dumb, from both ends.
AB was dumb to make it, they should have foreseen that they would alienate corn growers and associated communities, which is a hotbed for consumption of their product.
Corn growers being butthurt about this is dumb because the impact is negligible. Domestic beer consumers are pretty loyal, and the few people who actually change brands because of this aren't going to affect the market.
The whole situation is dumb because domestic beer is trash. If you really have to try to sell your trash mass-produced product based on your trash ingredients (or lack of trash ingredients for other trash ingredients, aka rice), you're still selling trash.
Drink real beer. Who cares.
The anti-corn syrup advertising campaign is one the worst in A-B's history. Have to believe it has about zero impact on swaying the beer buying customer.
BL missed the mark. The intent was for the average joe (not a midwesterner) to assume corn syrup is the same as high-fructose corn syrup, implying Miller and Coors are bad for you. Instead, midwesterners who know the difference, got upset. Am I missing anything?
This will get the corn growers revved up. If you honestly look at gas mileage, overall carbon footprint for production, loss of ground cover, extensive water use for production and extensive government support, I don't see how anyone can continue to support ethanol as a fuel. Let the arrows fly.Corn growers association asks for more government help than any industry in THE WORLD!!
National Corn does not look out for the interest of small family farms, just the 2000 acre and over operations and big industry like ADM and Ethanol
This will get the corn growers revved up. If you honestly look at gas mileage, overall carbon footprint for production, loss of ground cover, extensive water use for production and extensive government support, I don't see how anyone can continue to support ethanol as a fuel. Let the arrows fly.
Link to government support for ethanol please and thanks.
Suburban soccer moms don't like Miller Lite. They'll give their kids white wine or, if it's beer, some kind of shandy beer for the kids.I mean, I’m sure suburban soccer moms buying beer for their kids will think twice about getting Miller Lite now.
Iowa is the first state to vote for presidential nominees. Politicians love to win Iowa. Throw money at those lobby groups gets you support. Support equals votes. Votes equal, well you know.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/21/how-pandering-to-iowas-ethanol-lobby-hurts-america/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/realsp...-corn-lobby-ethanol-mandate-rfs/#70834c5b2db2
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source: https://www.taxpayer.net/energy-nat...cal-footprint-of-the-corn-ethanol-lobby-2015/
This subsidies create MASSIVE farm operations that kill family farms. I'm stopping here because this could turn political and I'm not interested in that..