Rice in Budweiser
NOTE: The above statement, quoted for the explanation of why most 19th century US Budweiser labels and ads (ex. below left) did not note the use of rice (above is an early label that did - in German - "Reis"), is incorrect when the representative claims "there is not a barrel of beer made in the United States made of barley and hops alone". Though a small percentage of the total US barrelage of the period, there were a number of all-malt beers still brewed, including some by the largest US brewers, Anheuser-Busch and Pabst. See for example Piel Bros.
Mr. Busch, president of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, states that the beer of this company is made entirely of barley malt, hops and yeast, except that some rice is used in order to make a very pale beer of the Bohemian type. This company has never used any corn or glucose or preservatives or coloring matter. Corn does not make a high grade of beer, because of certain oily substances which it contains. They are partly transformed into fusel oil after fermentation. The quantity of fusel oil is not large enough, in Mr. Busch's judgment, to be injurious to health.
Rice is used not to cheapen beer, but to produce a very pale beer of the Bohemian type. It is twice as expensive as barley malt. Mr. Busch is not opposed to the use of corn, though he uses none himself. He does not think that there can be any good evidence that the use of unmalted grains in brewing is unwholesome.
--- 1901 - Congressional Hearings on "PURE FOOD".
from ANHEUSER BUSCH PROMO MATERIAL
[ABOVE]1960s [BELOW] 1970s & 1980s
[ABOVE UPPER LEFT] - 1980s [RIGHT] Detail from 1972's BUDWEISER BREWING CHART
[BELOW] "NO CORN USED" noted on a banner in a turn of the century photo of brewery employees
