"BCITORGB" wrote in message
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Ken, in a reflective mood, sha
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There were a
whole lot of Weckers and Steppigs, my relations, who worked
at Anheuser-Busch and to a man they had nothing but respect
and admiration for the Busch family.
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I know nothing about the family: they may or may not have been goods
people. But surely your Weckers and Steppigs would have yearned for the
beers of the vaterland.

If the Busch family had stayed with the recipes of the vaterland,
they'd likely be brewing good beers today. And why did they change the
recipe of a good Czech beer. The took the name, why not the recipe?

frtzw906


Because it costs too much. If bud (or Miller or Coors etc..) actually put
enough barley and hops in their recipe to be decent beer or if they actually
lagered their "lager", the cost of goods would skyrocket.

Danl