Busch Beer

Yes, it is clear and Bright

There’s this line out of the song “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin where Robert Plant sing’s, there’s a Lady we all know….”  Who was he talking about?  I didn’t know her…. It’s been bothering me for years.  I could blame my tinnitus on too many front row seats at Led Zeppelin concerts; there he was, Jimmy Page playing that white double necked Gibson EDS-1275, called by many as the “coolest Guitar in Rock,” only for me to return home late night to my own personal banality of suburbia to not be able to hear a damn thing for.  I’m wiser now; I keep the volume on the iPod down to medium-low while my vintage 1960's McIntosh MC 240 power Amplifier with Phase Linear 4000 Series Auto-correlation Pre-Amplifier continues to gather dust in the garage.  Yes, I still have the old Pioneer PL-510A Turntable, can’t tell you the type of pick up on it, and if you are looking to buy a replacement cartridge for your old faithful... there are still plenty of dealers out there on the web to help.  As for the tinnitus, it’s come to pass that many of us supposedly with tinnitus know now that we have mistaken the high pitch noise we are bombarded with for that of outdoor air conditioning units, or from the compressor underneath the family fridge out there in the kitchen... how about all those factories generating high pitch noise that can be heard for tens of miles away, and of course right near your neighborhood there is the noise given off from electrical transformers coming from the local power substation… and the the list real of the real causes continues to grow.

Classic American Lawn Mower beer...

Back to Led Zeppelin, I had to Google to find out for sure, “It's just a spring clean for the May queen,” in order to correctly remember the lyrics as that’s another line to the song that’s bothered me for decades… and what exactly is a  “May Queen?”  Today I found out she’s the girl who must ride or walk at the front of a parade on May Day, an ancient tradition in the UK, and not a tradition at all over here in the States.. as it just wouldn’t fly at Wal-Mart because we Americans associate May Day as a celebration in "Communist" countries, which partly is true.  But… at our local Wal-Mart we find Busch Beer… for really cheap.  You know Wal-Mart?  The mega company that moved in locally, pretty much shut down your “Down Town” and then hired the folks they put out of business… to work for them… for really low wages.  Low wages mean in general all you can afford to drink is low priced beer... of which at Wal-Mart we find quite the variety.  Low priced beer also means you can drink a lot more of it which in turn can lead to a nasty drunk, spousal abuse, headaches and a really bad attitude towards your fellow man because you have been done wrong all your life; a subject for another posting.

Go ahead... pop another one...

Really cheap priced American Lager has received a bashing over the years mostly through very bad ratings posted on the internet by inexperienced beer drinks, like college kids and teenagers.  Some of these comments are deserved, other comments are unfair.  Terms like lawn mower beer come to mind, which lawn mower beer is of a great utility, it is a sacred ritual of the suburban American husband for it provides opportunity for excuse to start drinking early on a Saturday Afternoon.  “Honey, it’s really hot out there, get me a Busch will you?” Busch will quench your thirst on an unforgiving afternoon mowing the artificially irrigated lawns of high American desert suburbs… there you are with mower in one hand in the dead of summer heat, a Busch beer in the other to save the day!  As Eric of the “Horse Thief Gun Company of Kansas” has said on more than one occasion, “pond water will also quench your thirst as will water from a stream;  just be certain to drink upstream from the cattle.”   Good advice! When we Google beer ratings for Busch we find remarks such as, “started to gag with the first sip…” “Light beer that taste like water…” “Not for rednecks or hillbilly’s…” and from the Urban Dictionary, “B.ecause U. S.ave C.ash, Homey!!”

Brewed from six row barley malt

There is not much to say different to you about the beginnings of Busch Beer.  German Immigrant arrives, builds a brewery, and starts making lager beer, makes money, the business grows.  The most notable fact I could find about the founder of the company is John B. Busch served as a 1^st Lieutenant in the Union Army during the American Civil War.  He died, son’s continued with the business, the Prohibition period nearly killed it off, and today there’s cheap Busch Beer you can by in the beer cooler section of most supermarkets across America that I will bet you tastes nothing like the original brewed way back in 1848.

Remember Me?

I found Busch Beer, even way cold… to have practically “No Taste.” Then again I was drinking a Busch just last night at the evening meal … we were dining on the joys of one of those COSTCO prehistoric monster size spit roasted chickens you can get for $5 Bucks’. .. The bird we have all come to love for the economy of it all… Here I was smothering every bite with their new Mango/Coconut/ Habanero blend Chili sauce that as far as I am concerned, made the Busch taste just like water... as my mouth continued to numb down... to a major league Jones on fire… the classic hot chili "critical mass," which at the time was a good thing... as anything you eat with Habanero peppers today.... will guaranteed creep up on you on the way out tomorrow?  Yes it will... Admittingly, it was nothing like the aftermath we have come to expect from a fine  “Vindaloo” Indian curry dish... so  popular from the region of Goa, India.  To take matters to hand.. where in preparation for a tomorrow that will certainly come… one should place the toilet paper in the freezer overnight ready for tomorrows suffering; and my advice would be to dab... not wipe.   I have five more 16 ounce cans of Busch Beer to get through. Would you like one for I am troubled these cans of bland beer might last way past recommended shelf life?  I could try some humor and serve one to a guest or I could just slam them all down next weekend mowing the lawn…

Touring the old Busch (John B. Busch) Brewery Click Here

Busch Beer originally was First Class rated

More photos from the 1800’s and a short story Click Here