The Great American Beer is now Belgian.

[Enigma]

ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AP) -- Belgian brewer InBev has announced it will buy its U.S. rival Anheuser-Busch for $52 billion to create the world's largest brewer.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/14/anh....ap/index.html

[Skybird]

"Great American Beer "...? :hmm:






Honestly, if thinlking about beer, America and australia are the two places I would consider the least to be recommendable adresses. I tried several of them in past years, and they were thin, and tasted artificial, reminding of laboratories.

the strongest beer I ever had was some belgian stuff, a "monastery beer". Thicker than blood, so to speak, I was half-drunken from just half a glass.

All in all I like the German beers best indeed.

[Enigma]

"Great American Beer "...? :hmm:

My beer of choice is Belgian. (Stella).

However, Bud, in all it's variations, has always been marketed as being as American as Apple Pie and the 7th inning stretch.

[Takeda Shingen]

As an American, I would be concerned about this if the 'Great American Beer' mentioned above was actually any good. I agree with Sky's assessment: Budweiser is nothing more than foul tasting water.

[Stealth Hunter]

Gradually selling ourselves out to the foreigners.

[Frame57]

I am an American. I admit that there is NO great American beer. There are some good micro-brewery ones. Nope! For me it is either Dortmunder or Warsteiner. In my religion it is said if i die in a Jihad, I will get 70 Kegs of this beer!!!

[Tchocky]

For American beers, I like Sam Adams.
If you're going to drink a beer that starts with Bud, make it Budvar

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

For American beers, I like Sam Adams.

People that say there are no good mass produced American beers have not had Sam Adams.

[Mush Martin]

Originally Posted by Enigma

My beer of choice is Belgian. (Stella).

Me2

[Stealth Hunter]

Heineken... or Old Milwaukee.

[UnderseaLcpl]

If Budweiser is accquired by InBev I will be very interested in the results.
Will the backlash from Bud becoming "foreign" destroy it or will the indubitably superior quality (or at least alcohol content) of European beer prevail?
Will they even change anything?
I am inclined to believe that Bud is making a mistake on the part of their employees. Luckily, the board members will be safe from any negative consequences of the accquisition.

[Rockstar]

Back in the day in the Dominican Republic when I used to tip back a few, it was a Presidente. You could walk into any store and always find shelves stocked with icy cold ones.

btw, watch Budweiser. Sales will drop to the bottom InBev will get rid of it. Some guy in the U.S. will pick it up for cheap and make a truck load of money as the one who brought the great american beer back home. Kinda like Coke and New Coke. Someone will makes ots of money but I don't think it will be InBev

[geetrue]

I think all of the big executives and the board of AB budwiser are over 60 years of age and said, "what the heck ... $52 billion is plenty enough money for me".

This will backfire ... advertising to sell a German beer in America that use to be American is not going to go over well.

[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by geetrue

I think all of the big executives and the board of AB budwiser are over 60 years of age and said, "what the heck ... $52 billion is plenty enough money for me".

This will backfire ... advertising to sell a German beer in America that use to be American is not going to go over well.

Especially when it is actually Belgian.

[geetrue]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

Especially when it is actually Belgian.

I forgot Belgium won the war with us