Well, Smokey, one of the problems is this---for years, people drank Bud because that was all they ever knew, and they thought it was a "good" beer. Suddenly, the world market opens up at our doorstep, and people are exposed to other beers, and they can contrast the difference to the "taste" of Bud (not that there is one.)

Competition---Bud will continue to sell its stuff, and I guess people will continue to buy it; it will continue to make money---but I guess they didn't really take steps to compete---and to win--on the global market.

Tim C.

 

What a crock... AB bought out many smaller brewers and shut them down just to get the label. What goes around comes around... it's business.

I don't think anyone at AB gave a crap about the town of Latrobe, PA when they shut that down after buying RR. Plenty of American workers have lost there jobs at the hands of US companies.

I fail to see the difference here.

 

Excellent points made here.

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Business is business and I don't have a problem with one company buying out another, MY problem is that American business leaders have nothing more in mind that greed and thier OWN bottom line. They would sell pictures of thier grandmothers naked if it netted them a dollar. None of them seem to care that is it weakening America. We are becoming a nation of morons that can't think past 10 minutes in the future. I guess I was born a couple of generations too late for my own taste.

 

All the background I have heard about InBev is that they buy out other companies just to clean house and maximize earnings. Obviously that's the goal of all businesses, but was AB not making profit before? The deal makes sense, obviously, but it's just scary how much of America is actually owned by other countries.

EDIT- SmokeyBear pretty much summed up my thoughts there.

 

I agree. I drank BugLight not only because I do enjoy it but it was a U.S. company with huge plants right down the road from me in Houston. Looks like its Shiner time

 

The nations of morons is due to the horrific lack of parenting going on in this country, NOT due to our business leaders.

How is this "weakening" America? I think this gives micro brews a better chance to expand and grow since all the good 'ol boys want an "American" beer. Now our SMB community can florish. When one companies dies there are plenty of others to pick up the slack and fill those jobs.

 

Great Lakes Brewery here in beautiful Cleveburg has phenominal beer--I would also like to think that people have become more educated on what constitutes a "good beer."

I like to brew my own beer; when i cannot,I try to patronize the smaller, more dilligent and concsientious breweries.

Tim C.

 

I brewed a bit back in the day and my friend still does. We should have some sort of area here in the GD to discuss brewing, I would bet more than a couple here do it

 

We have a place down the road that helps you brew the stuff right there---great selection---everything from something heavier than Guiness to a Corona and a Bud. Once I tased those brews, there was really no going back to the other stuff. Around Christmas time we brew w Dunkelbock---recently we brewed a summertime favorite---a Czech Pilsner.

Great beers--great taste.

TSC

 

Holiday brews were my favorite part of brewing. Did a pumkin ale around October that, atleast in my memory, went over well.

 

I agree with you on some points, the nation of morons is the fault of the parents, or the lack therof. But the weakening of America is partly to blame on the business leaders, there USED to be this thing called business ethics but it has gone the way of the DO DO. Enron, Arthur Anderson, Tyco, and now the Indymac thing and so on and so on. People like these have shaken the very foundation of our economy. Now add to all this corruption, the greed of selling our American companies and landmarks to foreign interests. Mark my words, there will be no United States of America in 100 years.