- Yes, Ok. Budweiser alcohol free? Whose idea was it?
- Well, very late. Anheuser-Busch apparently thought it was a good idea, and Bud Zero, a new non-alcoholic beer and collaboration from Dwyane Wade, is now one thing.
- But is it a good thing? I compared Bud Zero to his burly older brother Budweiser, to see if he could figure out if non-alcoholic beer could be basically as satisfying as drunk stuff.
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What is the point of non-alcoholic beer?
That’s what I thought when I heard that Budweiser had released a new non-alcoholic beer, Bud Zero, with former NBA star and dad champion Dwyane Wade. Bud Zero contains 50 calories, no sugar, and, as you may have guessed, zero alcohol.
Wade told me that Bud Zero was created for athletes and people who choose not to drink or cannot do so for health reasons. That makes sense.
I, however, am not one of those things. I am lazy and love my alcoholic drink, unless you are my boyfriend’s conservative Indian mother, in which case I never drink alcohol, I work very hard all the time and I am open to pray in Buddhist and Hindu temples.
For the rest of you, I spent Wednesday afternoon serving libations in the temple of consumerism and comparing Bud Zero to its much older brother, the original Budweiser beer. Here’s why I’m not a Bud-liever yet.
