Was Budweiser ever a good beer?

Ah!

The original Budweiser is brewed in Czechoslovakia. The name derives from the Bohemian city Budweis where there is a long tradition of brewing beer since 1265.

In 1876 a Czech emigrant started to brew a plagiarism of the original Budweiser Beer in the USA. During the following trademark dispute the Bohemians have been able to advocate their rights in most of the large number of court cases. Because of the GATT convention geographic names are protected and therefore in many countries the Americans are forced to name their beer Anheuser Busch Bud.

The proper Czech version of Budweiser is a very good beer and the American plagiarized version can not hold a candle to the real thing.