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.

[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.

[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

[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.