No risk of turning this into an OMNI thread, since it looks to be one already, so here goes:

On the question of the brand name "Budweiser", I'm not sure that the one from Bohemia is truly the "original".

Technically, in German "Budweiser" means only "from Budweis". As I understand it, in the old days Budweis (the city now called Ceske Budejovice - sorry, I don't have the proper accent marks on this keyboard and HTML is marked as disabled) was famous as a center of beer brewing, and so when Anheuser-Busch wanted a name for a beer which was redolent of "old world" beer, they simply took "Budweiser" as a name.

However, they did not (or could not) register the name as a trademark or brand name everywhere in the world, and the Budwar brewery in the city which used to be called "Budweis" beat them to it some places.

At least that's what I heard. The answer is probably somewhere on the Internet. Maybe I'll go surfing this morning.

By the way, I first ran into the Bohemian Budweiser in the mid-60s while wandering in the neighborhood around St. Stephan's Cathedral in Vienna. Great stuff! I highly recommend it to any beer connoisseur.