[RIRed]

Mmmm. Westmalle Trappist Ale.

[NormsRevenge]

pats muh frosty Heiny tenderly..

I’m not in it for the profit personally.

It’s a cruel world out there. Stock up regularly.

[njslim]

Sacrifices have to be made

Looks like going to start drinking Iron City...

[caver]

“(The ‘ugly face of Capitalism’, union job layoffs loom)”

I’d call it the ugly face of unions. Too bad boys.

[Onelifetogive]

"AB InBev are just thinking of their bottom line for shareholders, regardless of the social cost. There is no reason at all to fire people."

If AB can make just as much beer with 10% fewer people, then society will will become wealthier as those people begin to go somewhere else and actually add value.

[Leo Farnsworth]

Interesting day, just opened a Henry Weinhard’s Private Reserve.

No sign of strikers here...

[CSM]

The best information that I can find is that their revenue for 2009 was $17.7B. That puts their $1.55B at just under 9% profit. What profit % would be acceptable to these union goons and would they be willing to accept the same return on their pension plans and 401K’s?

[Tzimisce]

Maybe Obama can invite both sides to the White House for a beer summit.

[Verginius Rufus]

Probably more people have heard of Hercule Poirot than of Hoegaarden.

[The SISU kid]

BEER Ping....

[Stentor]

Best beer I ever had was Timothy Taylor’s Landlord Beer in The Black Bull in Haworth, England. Need to win the lottery to get back there. Off topic reminiscence.

[Tainan]

Thus is not a "capitalism" problem it is, once again, a union problem. InBev bought the plants and intend to make a profit from them.
And having spoken to several Belgians since this story first appeared last week, it is NOT affecting the majority of beer brands that Belgians drink.
These are export brands and are of, what Belgians consider, a much lower quality.
So beer drinking in Belgium continues relatively unaffected.

Now the chavs in England might be having some shakes w/out their cheap Stella...;)