Anheuser-Busch Can Kiss My Glass Goodbye

I was barbequing in my backyard when my wife told me Anheuser-Busch sold. I was drinking a Bud Light and I couldn’t finish it, it made me sick to my stomach. My first reaction was anger. How could they do this? But they’re just trying to get money, and can I really knock them for that? No. When people asked me if I was going to boycott the beer I though I would. Then when I started talking to more folks, these people who are still working hard at AB I changed my mind. Say you had a huge boycott of it now, would that help those people's situation?

I’ve grown up in the Midwest, drinking Bud Light along with my friends and family. I remember that it was a big deal on weekends to go with pop down to a park and watch fast pitch softball. I have memories of my father passing around buckets of Bud Light to all of his friends. Even though I wasn’t drinking it yet, I remember it fondly.

I’ve gotten to know a gentleman named Larry who is a retired worker from Anheuser-Busch, and he asked me if I could help get the word out somehow by writing a song. It hit me that this wasn’t just about beer. When I was listening to him, the passion that he and the other folks in this town had, it was clear Anheuser-Busch was about so much more than beer.

I was very happy with the song, I felt very strongly about it. I thought it was very good. I recorded it in two hours, put it out there and a couple radio stations picked it up immediately.