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[quote:2nf2owf7]Anheuser Busch, which was bought by InBev in 2008, first began producing their Budweiser in 1875 in the US, while Budvar's use of the brand dates back to 1895.[/quote:2nf2owf7]

Is this true? I was under the impression that Budweiser (AB variant) was named after Budvar's Budweiser, as a premium brand which was heard of but not really available in the US when AB were starting out.

Yeah I think that is a common misconception. But there was a third brewery involved that also made Budweiser I believe and it produced it before either of them.

Also I think the other company was shipping Budweiser to the US before Budweiser was trademarked by Anheuser-Busch.

"muirgheasa":2m3a3lte wrote: [quote:2m3a3lte]Anheuser Busch, which was bought by InBev in 2008, first began producing their Budweiser in 1875 in the US, while Budvar's use of the brand dates back to 1895.[/quote:2m3a3lte]

Is this true? I was under the impression that Budweiser (AB variant) was named after Budvar's Budweiser, as a premium brand which was heard of but not really available in the US when AB were starting out.[/quote:2m3a3lte]

The story I know is that a man Owned a brewery in Budweis ( town south of Prague ) he had 2 sons and a nephew ( the Nephew was Adolphus Busch ) the Nephew felt He would inherit the brewery as he was working it . the sons inherited and he was ticked off and up and left for America . He started his brewery , called the beer Budweiser. the two boys also started calling their beer Budweiser, for the German export market, locally it would have been Budvar .
Pilsner is another name that could fall under this kind of argument

At one stage they looked for Protected Geographic origin status for Budweis, like Champagne has .

But Busch and Anheuser were both German born and moved to America.

The two breweries from Budweis were of course Czech.

I wonder does my friend Al from <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="www.fuggled.net">www.fuggled.net know more as he lived in the Czech Republic (Praha) for over 10 years.

From what I read of in Rodger Protz's The Taste of Beer, all the breweries in Budwise (there were 44 in the 1400's) ceased to exist or merged with the onset of the industrial revolution leaving only one remaining in 1795: Budwieser Burgerbrau, controlled by the Budweis Germans. It was renamed later to Samson, and recently seems to be going as Budwiser1795.
Anheuser and Busch (his son-in-law) were from the Rhineland and Hasse respectively and emigrated to America. Anheuser bought a brewery in St Louis and was later joined by Busch (in 1864). Busch came back to Europe to learn of the pale lagers and when he returned they launched Budweiser in 1876.
Budvar was founded in 1895 by Czechs of the town.