Stella firm buys Budweiser brewer

BBC News ^ | July 14, 2008

[wastedyears]

Should I switch to Sam Adams?

Why would they let themselves be bought out by a foreign company?

They’re probably going to change the identity of Anheuser-Busch.

[buck jarret]

Corporations are unsentimental by nature, so there is no reason for the consumer to get sentimental about a corporation. $70 a share is a fair deal for Anheuser Busch. I am not sure what the new owners can do to “ruin” the Budweiser.

[Coffee200am]

Isn’t INBEV associated with Cuba?

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Should I switch to Sam Adams

That depends upon whether you want to drink real beer or the rice-filled stuff A-B calls beer.

[wastedyears]

I like Budweiser

[nathanbedford]

Living most of the year here in Bavaria, I simply cannot drink American beers like Budweiser which is brewed from Rice and often served in cans! Not far from where I live is a sign which says in German, "beer served in cans is not beer ."

Several years ago I rescued two Germans whose engine had quit on the Talkeetna river in Alaska. After I had towed them ashore they rewarded me with two bottles of beer which they had brought with them on the plane from Germany. They had been to Alaska before and knew our beers. They bestowed them upon me as though they provided water in the desert.

Okay, okay, I'm a beer snob. There are worse defects of character-so I drink beer to forget them.

[Coffee200am]

Here' it is...Reuters:

"InBev, through a subsidiary, has a partnership with the government of Cuba to produce and distribute products in Cuba, Anheuser-Busch said."

[DoughtyOne]

The weak dollar and foreign trade deficits run amuk... what a way to run a country. (into the ground)

[word_warrior_bob]

Budweiser in a can = worst beer on earth.

[Krankor]

Stella!

[null and void]

They’d better NOT screw up Negra Modelo.

[wastedyears]

Anything from a can usually stinks, unless it’s certain soup.

[sphinx]

I don’t care about the beer as long as they leave the Clydesdales alone.

[Cacique]

btt

[the_Watchman]

In general, I prefer the beers of Europe. However, I don’t drink French beer when I am in France and when I am in Belgium I don’t drink Stella Artois! I drink Leffe.

Recently, BevMo has carried Leffe here in the States.

[tongue-tied]

While in Ukraine, when the bar at the hotel ran out of Baltica-3 I’d always have Stella Artois as a fallback. Not a bad beer at all.

[Caipirabob]

They bestowed them upon me as though they provided water in the desert.

LOL! Which they had...

[Reaganez]

AB bought out Sam Adams years ago.

No micro brew has the advertising of Sam Adams nor it wide availability.

[autumnraine]

My husband is furious at this. He drinks his “American” beer, Budweiser. Does Sam Adams have a good light beer?