MANY drinkers here associate American beer with that insipid gnat’s pee of a pint, Budweiser. Much favoured by bottle swigging unsavvy, chavvy, lightweights, its standing among the cognoscenti plummeted to a new low in the 1990s when its Yankee bully boy brewers tried to prevent Czech company Budvar from using the name Budweiser on their own long- established and far superior ale.
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