question: Alex the Dog was the mascot who was the precursor to the fictional dog used by which beer brand in the late 1980s?
answer: Bud Light
context: Title: Monarch Beverage Company
  Passage: The Monarch Beverage Company Inc is a diversified, international beverage company based in Atlanta, Georgia.  The company's CEO is Jacques Bombal.  The company was founded in 1965 by Frank Armstrong.  Monarch Beverage Company aimed to establish itself by offering lesser-known soft drink brands that had strong regional sales and appeal.  Monarch Beverage Company purchased Dad's from IC Industries of Chicago in 1986.  Around that time, it was the second largest volume (12 million cases) root beer brand and was distributed by the Coca-Cola bottler network.  In 2007, The Dad's Root Beer Company, LLC of Jasper, Indiana, acquired the Dad's Root Beer brand as well as the rights to Bubble Up, Dr. Wells and Sun Crest in the U.S. and some other countries from The Monarch Beverage Co. of Atlanta.
  Title: Alex the Dog
  Passage: Alex the Dog was the advertising mascot for Stroh's beer in the 1980s and precursor to Budweiser's Spuds MacKenzie.  At the peak of his career, Alex appeared in parades, on "Good Morning America", and the "Today" show.  He even inspired a series of toys, posters, cologne, shampoo and hand lotion.  Hip-hop artist Tone Loc referenced Alex the Dog in his song "Funky Cold Medina".
  Title: Bullseye (mascot)
  Passage: Bullseye (formerly known as Spot) is a Bull Terrier and the official mascot of Target Corporation.  The dog is featured in Target's commercial campaigns and in store sale signage and is used in various marketing campaigns.  The dog used in marketing campaigns is often female, but is used to play a male dog character.  She has a pure white coat, and has Target Corporation's bullseye logo painted around her left eye hence her name.  The makeup used on Bullseye is all natural and non-toxic.  Target also offers the dog as a stuffed toy for special events or employee recognition.  The original Target dog was American Kennel Club Ch.  Kingsmere Moondoggie, affectionately known as "Smudgie."  The current mascot is a descendant from the breeder Skyline Bull Terriers, located in Massachusetts.
  Title: Spuds MacKenzie
  Passage: Spuds MacKenzie is a fictional dog character created for use in an extensive advertising campaign marketing Bud Light beer in the late 1980s.  The Spuds MacKenzie mascot and campaign were created by a 23-year-old art director, Jon Moore.  At the time he was working at Needham, Harper & Steers, a Chicago, Illinois, advertising agency.  The dog first showed up in a Bud Light Super Bowl XXI ad in 1987.  During the height of his popularity, large amounts of Spuds merchandise was available, such as plush toys and t-shirts.
  Title: Rex the Wonder Dog
  Passage: Rex the Wonder Dog is a fictional dog in the DC Comics universe.  Created in 1952 by Robert Kanigher of Wonder Woman fame and artist Alex Toth, Rex has sometimes been compared to Superman's dog Krypto, who was created three years later.  However, though the two canine crime fighters do share some similarities, they are decidedly different.  Rex shares his name with a number of other fictional dogs, including Rex the Runt, Inspector Rex and a Canine film actor "Rex the Wonder Dog" or Rex the Dog, a canine actor from numerous silent films of the 1920s.
  Title: Skol
  Passage: Skol was initially created to be a global beer brand.  Allied Breweries (UK), Labatt (Canada), Pripps-Bryggerierna (Sweden) and Unibra (Belgium) formed a new company called Skol International in 1964.  Its aim was the creation of a worldwide beer brand, Skol, which could be licensed, manufactured and marketed across the world.  In the late 1960s, it was heavily advertised on Radio Veronica as Skol International, with an advertising jingle sung by Patrica Paay, later a very successful Dutch pop singer and TV presenter.  Since then participation in the company has changed significantly.
  Title: Spytty the Dog
  Passage: Spytty the Dog is a fictional dog, the official mascot of Newport County Association Football Club of Newport County, Wales.
  Title: Tusker (beer)
  Passage: Tusker is a beer brand owned by East African Breweries, with over 700,000 hectolitres being sold in Kenya per year.  It is also the largest African beer brand in the Diageo group.  It is a 4.2% ABV pale lager.  The beer's slogan ""Bia yangu, Nchi yangu"" means "My beer, My country" in Swahili.
  Title: Christian Moerlein Brewing Co.
  Passage: Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. is a private beer company that began production in 1853 in Cincinnati, Ohio by German immigrant Christian Moerlein.  Before closing its doors in 1919 as result of prohibition, Christian Moerlein was among the ten largest American breweries by volume.  In 1981, the brand was revived by the Hudepohl Brewing Company as a "better beer" a precursor to the current craft beer category and is considered a pioneer craft beer of today's craft beer movement.  In 1999, Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewing Co. sold out to a group of out-of-town owners, a sale that included the famed Christian Moerlein craft beer brand.  In 2004, Greg Hardman a Cincinnati resident purchased Christian Moerlein, as well as 65 other historic Cincinnati brands, returning local ownership to Cincinnati in a move that included a plan to return Cincinnati's grand brewing traditions.  The four phase plan was, 1) return the local ownership of Cincinnati's great beer brands to Cincinnati; 2) build their base of sales to; 3) open local brewing operations in the heart of Cincinnati's historic Brewery District and; 4) open a World-class Moerlein Lager House on the banks of the Ohio River to act as a signal that beer is back in Cincinnati.
  Title: Beer shop
  Passage: A beer shop (also referred to as beershop) is a retail store where beer and other goods related to beer are sold.  Beer shops can be found all around the world, but there are many located in famous beer countries like Belgium, Germany or England.  Beer shops range in size, and may be located on streets or in shopping malls.  Beer shops usually offer many different kinds of beer brands.  Some shops offer only regional beer brands which are famous or well known in their region.  Others also offer a big range of beer including beer brand from all around the world.
citations: Alex the Dog Spuds MacKenzie