Budweiser is an American-style pale lager, a brand of Belgian company AB InBev. Introduced in 1876 by Carl Conrad & Co. of St. Louis, Missouri, Budweiser has become a large selling beer company in the United States. Budweiser is a filtered beer, available on draft and in bottles and cans, made with up to 30% rice in addition to hops and barley malt.
American Budweiser is sold in most of the European Union as "Bud" (left). At right is a bottle of Czech Budweiser.
One of the Budweiser Clydesdales
Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s No. 8 Budweiser-sponsored car in 2007
Budweiser beer in a Bangkok bar
American lager or North American lager is pale lager that is produced in the United States. The pale lager-style beer originated in Europe in the mid-19th century, and moved to the US with German immigrants. As a general trend outside of Bavaria and the Czech Republic where the beers may be firmly hopped, pale lager developed as a modestly hopped beer, and sometimes used adjuncts such as rice or corn – and this was also true in the US.
Budweiser, an American lager