Boston Beer Company becomes largest American Owned Brewery Options

[dauss]

With the sale of Anheuser-Busch, and AB becoming Anheuser-Busch InBev and the largest brewery in the world, Boston Beer Company is now the largest American owned brewery. Go ahead and support your country and the new new craft beer "Big 3", Boston Beer Company(Sam Adams), Sierra Nevada, and New Belgium. Cheers!



InBev to Buy Anheuser-Busch, Gains Top Market Share

July 14 (Bloomberg) -- InBev NV agreed to buy Anheuser- Busch Cos. in a $52 billion transaction that will make the Belgian company the top brewer in the world's five biggest beer markets.

The $70-a-share purchase announced today will give Leuven, Belgium-based InBev the biggest share in China, the U.S., Russia, Brazil and Germany, making it the world's largest brewer with the size to negotiate lower prices on everything from hops to electricity. InBev gains Anheuser's half share of the U.S. market, the industry's largest, as well as top-selling Bud Light and Budweiser.

``This is really the only vehicle for them to enter into the U.S.,'' Trevor Stirling, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in London, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. ``This seems to be a deal that's good for both sides.''

The combined company will exceed $36 billion in annual revenue, 85 percent more than InBev's 2007 sales. The transaction follows SABMiller Plc's agreement to combine its U.S. businesses with Molson Coors Brewing Co. as U.S. industry sales approach $100 billion, according to Euromonitor Plc.

InBev will surpass SABMiller as the world's top seller of alcoholic beverages with about 17 percent of the 174 billion- liter market after the purchase is completed later this year.

``This is about giving InBev a U.S. presence and this is the most effective way they can see to achieve that,'' said Grant Saligari, a beverage industry analyst at Commonwealth Securities Ltd. in Sydney. ``Consumers are very emotionally attached to their beers. A peaceful deal helps maintain that.''

InBev Chief Executive Officer Carlos Brito will become the combined company's CEO, and Anheuser-Busch CEO August A. Busch IV and another current or former director of the U.S. company will join the board.

[chook]

Well, I think its time to start homebrewing again!

[Dogmeat]

what about Coors?

[THECHICKEN]

So how many more billions are now going over seas?

and does this mean that bud light is now gonna be taxed as an import?

[Mommy]

I couldn't give a damn about the beer.... I'm wondering what's going to happen to the theme park in Tampa, Florida lol.

[dauss]

what about Coors?

Coors Brewing Company merged with Molson of Canada back in 2005 to become Molson Coors, but announced a merger with SABMiller(Which is South African Breweries Miller) for their US operations in October of 2007. It was finalized at the beginning of this July and is now called MillerCoors.

[The Fanatic]

bleh


Global economies!




Europeans need to keep their hands off our beer.

[Psykopath]

bleh
Global economies!
Europeans need to keep their hands off our beer.

Major American beer companies need to learn how to make good beer!

[Mommy]

But Americans are aficionados of the trash beer!

[The Fanatic]

I like Budweiser.

[impala454]

me too

[jwttu]

Isn't Pabst technically the largest brewer in the US except they outsource all their beer to Miller breweries? And I heard that Yuengling was the #2 American brewery now.

[impala454]

yuengling is some good shit

[Jim]

yuengling is some good shit

As a not big fan of beer, what would someone recommend for a not big fan of beer to drink? I prefer mixed drinks, mind you, so something that doesn't taste like your typical beer.

[impala454]

not sure what you mean... you don't like beer but want to know what beer you should drink?

[Jim]

not sure what you mean... you don't like beer but want to know what beer you should drink?

Yah, essentially, I want to broaden my alcohol tastes. I'm not a big fan of your typical beer (American beer) but am interested in trying something (I guess like Woodchuck).

[impala454]

woodchuck is awesome stuff, but wouldn't really consider it beer. if you don't like beer, stick to light beers and such, they're not as "beery" if that makes sense.

[FORSAKENR320]

this thread reminded me of this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm8-UiCN9pg

[jwttu]

woodchuck is awesome stuff, but wouldn't really consider it beer. if you don't like beer, stick to light beers and such, they're not as "beery" if that makes sense.

Don't listen to this, light beers are shit. Also ciders are not considered beer.

Heres some recommendations.(I know you can get this stuff in texas not sure about the midwest where you are)

Do you like fruity drinks? Try Abita's Purple Haze, Abita's Strawberry Lager, Great Divide's Wild Raspberry Ale

Do you like coffee/caramel/chocolate flavors? Try Great Divides St Bridgets Porter or Oak Aged yeti, any porter/stout from Breckenridge. Unibroue has a good one called trois pistoles, and Victory has a good one called storm king.

Then there are wheat beers which are pretty universal. Try Boulevards' wheats, New Belgium's mothership wit


Let me know if any of these appeal to you

[dauss]

Isn't Pabst technically the largest brewer in the US except they outsource all their beer to Miller breweries? And I heard that Yuengling was the #2 American brewery now.

I guess the title and what I posted don't jive. Boston Beer Company is the largest craft brewery in the US(and American owned). They are in second place, behind Pabst in terms of beer sales volume, but ahead of Yuengling as an American owned brewery.

[impala454]

Don't listen to this, light beers are shit. Also ciders are not considered beer.

Heres some recommendations.(I know you can get this stuff in texas not sure about the midwest where you are)

Do you like fruity drinks? Try Abita's Purple Haze, Abita's Strawberry Lager, Great Divide's Wild Raspberry Ale

Do you like coffee/caramel/chocolate flavors? Try Great Divides St Bridgets Porter or Oak Aged yeti, any porter/stout from Breckenridge. Unibroue has a good one called trois pistoles, and Victory has a good one called storm king.

Then there are wheat beers which are pretty universal. Try Boulevards' wheats, New Belgium's mothership wit
Let me know if any of these appeal to you

"light beers are shit" but you're suggesting strawberry and wild rasberry and coffee/caramel tasting "beer"?

if you're gonna aquire a taste for beer, just get some shit at the grocery store. get a tallboy of each domestic and go to town. don't listen to the beer phags on here.

[Jim]

"light beers are shit" but you're suggesting strawberry and wild rasberry and coffee/caramel tasting "beer"?

if you're gonna aquire a taste for beer, just get some shit at the grocery store. get a tallboy of each domestic and go to town. don't listen to the beer phags on here.

The domestics I've had are the reason I hate beer in the first place...

[THECHICKEN]

The domestics I've had are the reason I hate beer in the first place...

Sounds like you just don't like the light stuff put in the states. Im sure you have, but just get different beers from a big beer hall (i would say from a store but how you pour a beer effects how it tastes and a bar will know better). Try some wheat beers, some hefewiezen's, guiness from a good bar (so poured correctly), japanese beers, ETC. Just try all the different kinds and find out what you do or don't like.

and remember its bit of an acquired taste, but once you have enough (over time) the taste gets better.

[impala454]

The domestics I've had are the reason I hate beer in the first place...

Just saying, if you're going to try to acquire a taste for beer, starting with all the fancy stuff probably isn't going to help. It's like saying you don't like beef so in order to acquire a taste for it you go have a $100 dry aged ribeye. Just trying to help here, a bud of mine down here has the same idea you do.

I think you'd be surprised how different flavors the standard stuff available at the grocery store have. Not necessarily dometics, but the well known brands. I know our walmart here has about 30 different beers. Just get like 5 different brands once a week and try em all honestly. If nothing else, you'll have an idea of what the standard stuff tastes like, so when you go to a party and they don't have the japanese karate chop sumo sushi beer #3 blend these guys are suggesting, you can make a choice . I think most of us who drink beer have a list of cheap beer favorites, as well as a list of "nice" beer favorites. Even if I go to a nice place and get nice beer, it's usually only a couple, and the rest of the night is cheaper beer (short of special occasions).

On a completely unrelated beer note, I get lots of it tomorrow night, free . My coworkers are takin me out for drunkedness since this is my last week.

[THECHICKEN]

Just saying, if you're going to try to acquire a taste for beer, starting with all the fancy stuff probably isn't going to help. It's like saying you don't like beef so in order to acquire a taste for it you go have a $100 dry aged ribeye. Just trying to help here, a bud of mine down here has the same idea you do.

I think you'd be surprised how different flavors the standard stuff available at the grocery store have. Not necessarily dometics, but the well known brands. I know our walmart here has about 30 different beers. Just get like 5 different brands once a week and try em all honestly. If nothing else, you'll have an idea of what the standard stuff tastes like, so when you go to a party and they don't have the japanese karate chop sumo sushi beer #3 blend these guys are suggesting, you can make a choice . I think most of us who drink beer have a list of cheap beer favorites, as well as a list of "nice" beer favorites. Even if I go to a nice place and get nice beer, it's usually only a couple, and the rest of the night is cheaper beer (short of special occasions).

On a completely unrelated beer note, I get lots of it tomorrow night, free . My coworkers are takin me out for drunkedness since this is my last week.

Or maybe he could find a beer he likes (not the cheap crap) and that makes him able to stand the crappier beers when he goes to a party. I usually drink a good beer first at a bar, then move to the cheap crap once i've already got the good beer taste in my mouth.

to each his own. (oh and i don't think asahi is THAT uncommon of a beer to be considered a "karate chop sumo sushi beer")

[impala454]

Or maybe he could find a beer he likes (not the cheap crap) and that makes him able to stand the crappier beers when he goes to a party.

That doesn't make a lot of sense. So if I go eat the best burger in town at the mom & pop place, that makes me able to stand a burger king grease patty on a bun?

(oh and i don't think asahi is THAT uncommon of a beer to be considered a "karate chop sumo sushi beer")

The point was that it probably wouldn't be your typical party beer.

Jim, if you want to acquire a taste for beer, the simple answer is, go drink some. If American beers aren't your thing that's no big deal, but there are plenty of beers on the shelf at your store that aren't American that you probably haven't tried that are good beers. IMHO that's your best place to start.

[THECHICKEN]

Dude, its not a competition. YES to me it makes since that drinking good beers makes it so that i can stand cheaper beer a little more. Sorry you don't agree.

Why again does he need a "party" beer? Thought he was just wanting to try good beers to get him to expand his horizons...

[impala454]

if it's not a competition why'd you retort back with your "light beers are shit" and acting like a douchebag.

and I could ask you the same thing? why would one need a fancy beer in order to "expand their horizons"?

[THECHICKEN]

if it's not a competition why'd you retort back with your "light beers are shit" and acting like a douchebag.

and I could ask you the same thing? why would one need a fancy beer in order to "expand their horizons"?

lol ok "bud"

im not getting into this whiney bitchy shit thing again with you. Im giving my opinion to HIM on what he should try. Just keep repeating the same thing after every person gives an opinion so you can be "right"...

oh, and expanding horizons means NEW things... he's has already had the cheap shit that will be at "partys" (like he said) which you are wanting him to try ... i suggested common beers that aren't american drafts.

[impala454]

lol ok "bud"

im not getting into this whiney bitchy shit thing again with you. Im giving my opinion to HIM on what he should try. Just keep repeating the same thing after every person gives an opinion so you can be "right"...

you started the shit don't act like it was me. you can give your fucking opinion without quoting mine and talking shit. I said nothing to you until you started quoting and retorting to me.

oh, and expanding horizons means NEW things... he's has already had the cheap shit that will be at "partys" (like he said) which you are wanting him to try ... i suggested common beers that aren't american drafts.

I suggested he look at what's on the shelf that he hasn't tried. What is so terrible about that?

[THECHICKEN]

go back and read it guy, thats all i have to say

[impala454]

go back and read it guy, thats all i have to say

I did. You quoted me first in post #19. Don't quote me, and take out that first sentence and we'd have had no problems whatsoever. And the second sentence was redundant. We're all here to give our opinions, but don't expect me not to respond when you diss mine for no reason.

[THECHICKEN]

I did. You quoted me first in post #19. Don't quote me, and take out that first sentence and we'd have had no problems whatsoever. And the second sentence was redundant. We're all here to give our opinions, but don't expect me not to respond when you diss mine for no reason.

LOOK AT WHAT YOU JUST SAID... I AM NOT POST 19.... unless you are saying i am secretly jwttu


wow

[Spectatrix]

LOOK AT WHAT YOU JUST SAID... I AM NOT POST 19.... unless you are saying i am secretly jwttu
wow

HAHAHA!!!

Impala:



This post has been edited by Spectatrix: Jul 17 2008, 12:17 PM

[impala454]

haha... doh. sorry guy.

you still quoted me first though

[THECHICKEN]

haha... doh. sorry guy.

you still quoted me first though

I realize that, but it wasn't as insulting as you were making it out to be. I was merely quoting yours and saying it could be taken the opposite way, wasn't trying to make a big thing of it. At least i know where you got the "light beer is shit" thing from lol.

heh

[impala454]

well dude, seriously, your avatar looks almost identical to a dallas mavericks logo, so i mean, it's your fault

[The Fanatic]

Jim,

Try a blue moon

[impala454]

Jim aren't you up north somewhere? How far does Yuengling's empire extend up there? That stuff is awesome, and was available everywhere when I when I went to PA on business last year.

[Jim]

Jim aren't you up north somewhere? How far does Yuengling's empire extend up there? That stuff is awesome, and was available everywhere when I when I went to PA on business last year.

I'm in Indiana, so I'm not sure.

[impala454]

bah... their site says they distribute to these states: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, South Carolina & Alabama

[Jim]

bah... their site says they distribute to these states: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, South Carolina & Alabama

Closest one to me is New York (right Across Ohio...) but that's not really close at all.

[THECHICKEN]

well dude, seriously, your avatar looks almost identical to a dallas mavericks logo, so i mean, it's your fault

Ha... i'll give you that



so yeah rosetta stone is awesome... (especially free)... el nino corre