King of Beers Is Still Budweiser Heavy

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King of Beers Is Still Budweiser Heavy

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The King of Beers in America is still Budweiser and not Bud Light. According to a new study, 95% of beer drinkers list “Bud Heavy,” as it is known, as “famous,” which puts it at the top of a recent list.
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In 2022, Bud Heavy and Bud Light represented the top-selling brand in America under the label of Bud, which includes both. Sales between the two were $6.5 billion. Bud Light has been hit by controversy, while Bud Heavy has not. Bud also continues to be the flagship brand for parent Anheuser Busch InBev, which will not change.
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Bud Heavy is the original Budweiser. Bud Heavy was launched in 1876. Bud Light was released in 1982, in part because of the success of Miller Light, which was launched in 1975. (These are the 30 oldest beers in America.)

A look across major NASCAR hoods shows the Bud logo. Bud Light is not mentioned. The logo first appeared on the car of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2006
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Budweiser’s logo also hung on the wall of Yankee Stadium. The same is true of other stadiums across the country.

Budweiser is actually very different from Bud Light. Bud Heavy has 127 calories. Bud Light has 110.
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Whether Bud Light sales move back to near where they were before the recent controversy, Bud Heavy will carry the brand as it has for over a century.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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