$46 Billion Offered for Anheuser-Busch

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edited June 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
ST. LOUIS (June 11) - Anheuser-Busch Cos., the biggest U.S. brewery, received a $46 billion buyout offer Wednesday from a Belgian brewer that might be too good to refuse.

$46 Billion Offered for Anheuser-Busch and would you like to see this deal go through?

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  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Doesnt matter to me
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    46 billion?

    holy crappppp

    "Belgian beer comprises the most varied and numerous collection of high-quality beers in the world "
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_beer


    Could be a sweet(er) deal. Or it could be a scheme to sell bottled piss...lol...

    I'm thinking the former.
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  • peacocoaNMO
    peacocoaNMO Posts: 99
    Speaking as somebody who has lived in missouri for their whole life, i will never drink a bud light again if this deal goes through.
  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    Hell no. Natural Light needs to come from here.

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  • eyedclaar
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    Fanch is the only person I can think of that likes crappy beer enough to drop that kind of $. Is he a multi-billionare by any chance? If so, I cheerfully withdraw all snarky remarks about aformentioned individual and their taste in beer.


    Fanch, throw down a tidbit of wisdom about something white people like...
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    Ha, Fanch posted something while I was writing about him... Cosmic!
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  • Hinny
    Hinny Posts: 1,610
    That's how you make mass-market American beers good, by getting the Belgians to take over.

    Now if only some Germans can take over the number 2.
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  • fanch75
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    eyedclaar wrote:
    Fanch is the only person I can think of that likes crappy beer enough to drop that kind of $. Is he a multi-billionare by any chance? If so, I cheerfully withdraw all snarky remarks about aformentioned individual and their taste in beer.

    Fanch, throw down a tidbit of wisdom about something white people like...

    It's true. I am really from Belgium and I am buying A~B so that I can have endless Natty, with access 24 hours a day! Bet you wish you had your own Natty beer cave. Well, I will.

    Re: your request: white people like microbrews, so I'm struggling here on how to connect the dots.
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  • cuyler41
    cuyler41 Posts: 388
    46 billion !!! wow thats alot. I won't even spend 10 bucks for a case of that piss-water :)
  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    Yeah, it does suck but so does Budweiser and most other domestically mass-produced beers.

    That's why I stick with locally brewed micro-brews.
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    My favorite Dos Equis and Red Stripe both imported beers. In fact I'd like to have a beer this weekend it's Father's Day.

    I'm due it's been about a month since I've had a beer and it's never Bud or any other form of AB.

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  • ewokpelts
    ewokpelts Posts: 730
    most american breweries are heavy on rice(like AB).

    miller is still wheat.

    better taste, and less headaches from wheat beers.
  • londonwpr
    londonwpr Posts: 293
    Down with AB. Budweiser is disgusting! It would be a shame to have such a respected company like InBev (who produces Stella Artois - the best beer around) to buy a company that produces such sh*t!
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,168
    if they plan to convert the brewerys to make belgian beer HELL YES!
    all of the AB beers are terrible
  • Lesbelges
    Lesbelges Posts: 434
    I am apalled as a former resident of Belgium that our main beer company would buy a company that makes such piss poor beer!

    On a side note, I don't get how the US can buy other countries' companies, but when another country is trying to buy an american company everyone gets all up in arms.
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  • gnr+pj=2bestever
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    ewokpelts wrote:
    most american breweries are heavy on rice(like AB).

    miller is still wheat.

    better taste, and less headaches from wheat beers.

    Things such as rice and corn used in the brewing process are called adjuncts. They are basically a filler ingredient to make the beer lighter in body (taste as well).

    and by the way...Miller uses corn as their adjunct, so they are no better than BUD.

    Oh, and Miller is NOT a wheat beer. Something like a hefeweizen is a wheat beer.
    Whats got the whole world faking?

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