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Really????
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 9:05 pm
by haerbob3
Really is this any surprise
Poor Sales
Re: Really????
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 9:07 pm
by Beer-lord
This breaks my heart....................NOT!
Re: Really????
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 9:15 pm
by Inkleg
Oh, those were beers?
Re: Really????
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 9:16 pm
by BlackDuck
Wow....those are some huge loss numbers.
Hey BMC....
Re: Really????
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 9:21 pm
by jhough
I thought they were flavored piss water.
Re: Really????
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 9:22 pm
by mtsoxfan
I saw what you did there... butt wiper....
Re: Really????
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 9:23 pm
by Yankeedag
it figures their sales would go down after I started brewing my own...
just say'n
Re: Really????
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 10:30 pm
by Rayyankee
Re: Really????
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 9:00 am
by Chuck N
Not to worry. They'll just put the swill in a cool new bottle or a new can with extra holes in it and the "sheep" will buy them again.
And speaking of new cans...I want it known that I came up with this idea first: A can that, when a female wraps her hand around it, it tells her weather she is ovulating or not so she can decide if she should allow herself to be "picked up" (I guess the new terminology is "hooked up" (eww!)). And if it determines that she isn't it makes a loud, shrill whistling noise to attract all the males within ear-shot. The females won't have to buy a beer ever as all the males will be buying beers for them in hopes of hearing that whistle. It's an idea that could save the American "beer" market.
Re: Really????
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 3:03 pm
by radonc73
Do they not like Milwaukee? That list sounds like my high school years the Beast, Old Milwaukee, Butt wipper. Lots of memories and hangovers.
Re: Really????
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 6:12 am
by FedoraDave
What that article doesn't point out, though, is that the BMC are so "diversified" within their own product line that it may not have all that much impact on their bottom line.
It doesn't matter to AB/InBev if Budweiser Select sales go down, as long as Bud Light Lime sales go up, is what I'm saying.
I'm not sure this indicates any kind of a trend at all, actually.
Re: Really????
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 10:51 am
by Wings_Fan_In_KC
The Michelob Light franchise “is a sinking brand at this point. There’s still a bunch of Michelobs, and Ultra is growing,” Shepard said.
Michelob Ultra has got to be the foulest crap I've ever had the misfortune of trying. It's like colored water. I cannot believe as a segment that Ultra is growing. You can't fix stupid or stupid people with poor taste.
Re: Really????
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 11:45 am
by radonc73
Its very trendy, like the "beer experts" that talk about beer but all they really know is "hoppy" as a style and seem to think that beer tasting like liquid hops is "good" beer. I had some from a guy down the street before he knew I brewed, I have no idea how the heck he choked this crup down. I am not a hopped beer person but I can tell a nasty beer when I taste it, he tried mine and I think he liked it better than his because he drank it faster than the beer he bought.
Re: Really????
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 7:25 pm
by mtsoxfan
FD, the trend may be switching from one tasteless beer to another...
But as you state, with so much of the market share, they may not be feeling it...
Re: Really????
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 9:38 pm
by duff
I think the big thing is they are talking about specific labels and I think they are competing against themselves. The less than 60 calorie beer market seems huge with college students and early 30s business types not to mention all the faux craft beer such as Blue Moon and what not.