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Title: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: Fragamemnon on July 13, 2008, 10:27:53 PM: InBev to Buy Anheuser-Busch for $49.9 Billion (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aFeprSPTUVFk&refer=home)

Can't wait to see what the shiwit American-first pundits have to say about that. I'll be sure to remind my conservative friends with bad taste that, when they swill that shitty Budweiser, not only are they supporting a land of kings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy) but also the very heart of the European Union-complete with its hidden agenda to reconquer and "re-colonize" America-itself!

Seriosuly though, I'm glad it happened. Busch beers are just beyond shitty, if they just threw out all of the Bud and replaced it with Stella (the "bud of belgium, as my wife calls it), we'd be a much better off country.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: Akala on July 13, 2008, 10:38:06 PM: I wonder how Bud will change gears when they can't use the 'All American' angle. Super Bowl commercials should be interesting.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: Fragamemnon on July 13, 2008, 10:41:49 PM: Bud will stick around as a brand, of course. Though I with they'd just replace it with Stella and tell Joe Six-Pack that he long nightmare of shitty beer is at an end.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
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Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: CajoleJuice on July 13, 2008, 10:47:36 PM: Yeah, I'm pretty sure that emoticon was meant for this moment.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!
Post by: Phoenix Dark on July 13, 2008, 10:52:13 PM: LaRouche was right!
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: Flannel Boy on July 13, 2008, 10:56:50 PM: It's still business as usual at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery:

:piss :piss2
(http://www.dannett.net/img/dog/keg.gif)

Keep filling those kegs.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on July 13, 2008, 11:06:59 PM: Maybe the Belgians will add in bitter redneck tears, making Budweiser finally drinkable.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!
Post by: Rman on July 13, 2008, 11:07:44 PM: Quote from: The Experiment on July 13, 2008, 11:06:59 PM
Maybe the Belgians will add in bitter redneck tears, making Budweiser finally drinkable.
:lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: MrAngryFace on July 13, 2008, 11:20:22 PM: Ill stick to my imported and microbrews...wait does this mean bud is import? Ill have to buy it noooo!
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: Bocsius on July 13, 2008, 11:25:08 PM: Step 1 in my plan to reinstitute prohibition is now complete.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!
Post by: Brehvolution on July 13, 2008, 11:25:26 PM: Will this mean that Bud products will make me shit less in the morning?

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Another American icon sold out to the highest bidder.
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:bow One brewer to rule them all. :bow2
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: BlueTsunami on July 13, 2008, 11:29:20 PM: Quote from: The Iconistrator on July 13, 2008, 11:20:22 PM
Ill stick to my imported and microbrews...wait does this mean bud is import? Ill have to buy it noooo!

:lol

Quote from: Zero Hero on July 13, 2008, 11:25:26 PM
Will this mean that Bud products will make me shit less in the morning?

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Another American icon sold out to the highest bidder.
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:bow One brewer to rule them all. :bow2

Amurica :usacry
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!
Post by: Brehvolution on July 13, 2008, 11:33:21 PM: I'm kind of concerned what this means to the company I work for since AB is a big client of ours. I would venture to say a 3rd of the money we made this year was from AB.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on July 13, 2008, 11:34:55 PM: I'm a Coors guy, so this is no big deal. :-*
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: Fragamemnon on July 13, 2008, 11:39:53 PM: Quote from: dcharlie on July 13, 2008, 11:05:16 PM
i went on a number of beer factory/beer history tours whilst in Belgium.

General theme : two grades of beer produced - one to meet the stringent purity laws for mainland europe, one to be sold to the UK suckers/export that doesn't need to meet the same requirements.

Not necessarily. I have no problems sourcing "real deal" trappist ales and lambics here in the US (and other beers too, that's generally all we drink here though).
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: huckleberry on July 13, 2008, 11:54:31 PM: As far as I am concerned this is great news. Fuck A-B and their shit practices...of course In-Bev is probably no better.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: The Fake Shemp on July 13, 2008, 11:55:31 PM: Who drinks Coors, Budweiser, Miller, etc?

Such awful, awful beers. Microbrew, foriegn ales or bust.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: patrickula on July 14, 2008, 12:00:55 AM: (http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/patrickula/bigcry.gif)
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on July 14, 2008, 06:46:01 AM: Coors is alright.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!
Post by: Tieno on July 14, 2008, 07:11:20 AM: (http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/01vt9S3aGg7mx/610x.jpg)

InBev is getting too big though :(
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: Bloodwake on July 14, 2008, 12:40:56 PM: Anheuser-Busch doesn't bottle Heineken or Blue Moon, so I think I'm safe.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: BlueTsunami on July 14, 2008, 01:04:30 PM: Someone kill Corona, PLEASE.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: huckleberry on July 14, 2008, 01:18:10 PM: Quote from: BlueTsunami on July 14, 2008, 01:04:30 PM
Someone kill Corona, PLEASE.

Oddly enough, if I remember right, Corona helped to kill A-B.

Corona is owned by Modelo - who refused to sell a majority share to A-B so that they could fight the In Bev takeover.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: Fragamemnon on July 14, 2008, 01:28:04 PM: it's weird, Modelo distributes Pacifico as well as Corona, both beers are very more competing in the same space and, well, it takes no dummy to know that Pacifico beats the living piss out of Corona.

Guess they keep it around for the brand name. At least they could just sell the same thing in both brands, better beer for all.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: huckleberry on July 14, 2008, 01:32:55 PM: Pacifico takes a giant shit all over Corona.

What is wierd to me is that A-B distributes Landshark, Bud Lime, Tequiza, and probably more that I am forgetting about - which all compete for the same market. I fucking hate beer distributors in general with their shitty practices.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!
Post by: Tauntaun on July 14, 2008, 02:16:22 PM: Bud sucks anyways so whatever. Give me something dark like Guinness. :drool

Quote from: Bloodwake on July 14, 2008, 12:40:56 PM
Anheuser-Busch doesn't bottle Heineken or Blue Moon, so I think I'm safe.

These are tasty too. Really good with pizza. Beer and pizza go together like Africa and Aids.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: Fragamemnon on July 14, 2008, 02:38:24 PM: whenever I make pizza I always snag two bottles of Ommegang's Rare Vos to wash it down. Yeah it's a "domestic Belgian" but damn if it isn't the perfect pizza beer for beer snobs.

oh god now I want a Rodenbach Grand Cru. It's been so long (six months?) and it is like the best beer ever.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 14, 2008, 02:55:55 PM: where do you get your good beers?
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: Fragamemnon on July 14, 2008, 03:48:40 PM: usually I can source stuff without a problem from some of the speciality foodie stores here in the area I live in. "Big Box" wine stores also work in a pinch, easy to get some decent stuff (real deal belgian-bottled trappist ales, decent lambics) without too much hassle.

That Grand Cru I mentioned requires a trip into Durham to get, which I don't do too often since I hate all cities with a passion.

But if you're looking for something locally, drop by your local warehouse-sized wine store and head to the import beer isle. If it is any good they'll be some good beers for sure.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 14, 2008, 04:01:09 PM: hmm, okay. I live like 2 blocks from a BevMo so I'll check it out
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: Fragamemnon on July 14, 2008, 04:09:57 PM: Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on July 14, 2008, 04:01:09 PM
hmm, okay. I live like 2 blocks from a BevMo so I'll check it out

just scanned their website, certainly seems like a decent enough place.

what kind of beers do you like? I might be able to make some recommendations.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!
Post by: Mupepe on July 14, 2008, 04:33:10 PM: bud isn't so bad you bunch of whiners. it gets the job done
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: MrAngryFace on July 14, 2008, 05:57:29 PM: so does cheap vodka
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on July 14, 2008, 07:04:58 PM: Quote from: Mupepe on July 14, 2008, 04:33:10 PM
bud isn't so bad you bunch of whiners. it gets the job done

I like Bud Light. Only because once you pound down several shots of alcohol, Bud Light has no taste once you are hammered. So it is the perfect alcohol to control your drunkenness.

By itself? Hell no.
Title: Re: Anheuser-Busch sold to the Belgians. Bud aftertaste replaced with SOCIALISM!!!
Post by: Positive Touch on July 14, 2008, 07:10:32 PM: as long as A-B's donations to shit around St. Louis don't get fucked with, I couldn't care less