Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Yawn

I just can't bring myself to get worked up over the sale of Anheuser-Busch to InBev. Everyone else seems so freaked out, like America is losing a piece of its soul or something. Baloney. And this article in Salon.com just confirms it's baloney.

4 comments:

assurbanipaul said...

Just paper shuffling around. Corporations buying other corporations means very little these days.

Won't change a thing, and sooner or later some Chinese brewer will inevitably buy InBev and we'll start the hand-wringing all over again.

Anonymous said...

I was raised in St. Louis and still have family there. Apparently I'm supposed to be sad over the loss of a local landmark.

In actuality, not much will change. They're not going to close factories.

From my perspective, the actual beer quality can't get much worse. With a little Belgian influence, it might actually improve!

Anonymous said...

I doubt they'll change anything. If anything, this gives the average consumer an even better reason to support TRULY American craft beer.

Lee said...

You know, I find it far more upsetting that Pearl and Lone Star are both now owned by Pabst, which is based in Illinois.