InBev purchases Anheuser-Bush

[preslove]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: vi edit

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: allisolm
Interesting to note the beers that Anheuser-Busch ALREADY imports and distributes:

Bass, Becks, Hoegaarden,Stella Artois, Kirin, Tiger, Grolsch, Lowenbrau, and others.

That's fine. The question is where to keep the profit.

We need to keep the profits IN AMERICA. Even with those being imported the profit stayed with an American company.

So I'm never going to buy bud again and unfortunately will have to strike all those beers (they look like a lot of inbev brands anyway) off the list as well. Sam Adams it is.

This thinking always kind of annoyed me. There's still thousands of US employees getting paid to make it and deliver it. There's still tens of thousands of bars, restaurants, and grocery stores, ect that make money off of selling it. And people in the US can still enjoy it. I guess I'd rather see it that way than say...having Ford still be "based" in America but have all manufacturing done in Mexico or elsewhere. I don't really care about the profits so much as the jobs that it produces. I couldn't give two shits about some middle management sitting in an office collecting $250,00k + stock options and a CEO making 10+ million and a golden parachute to jump with.

Jobs will be lost and money will flow out of America. That is NOT a good thing, it is a bad thing.

1). Not a lot of jobs are going to be lost, because inbev is more than likely going to start brewing Stella and it's other European brands here, in old AB breweries.

2). AB was a publicly traded company that could be owned by anyone, including furerners. The profit flowed outside of US before.

 

[AntiFreze]

Welcome to the free market. This doesn't make me sad at all. If you really want to support American brewing, than buy local craft brews. Not filthy rice beer.

 

[AntiFreze]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
meh..Anheuser-Bush made crappy beer anyways.

Agreed.

Besides, if you guys are all bent out of shape about it, buy a true local microbrew, those things are everywhere now, are typically better than the big-brew crap, and you are doing a better job of suporting your community by purchasing their beer.

KT

didn't read this before i posted.

100% agreed.

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
From what I remember hearing on NPR, there were not any layoffs or Brewery closures planned as a result of this deal.

There never is. That's always the story - "this is for the best of both companies. We'll realize cost syndergies!"

That translates to - canning lots of people. That's how any takeover goes.

Inbev doesn't own a single fucking brewery in the United States. They have no reason to close any. In fact, they are more than likely going to start brewing their european brands here, and *gasp* might even have to expand the plants.

 

[AntiFreze]

Originally posted by: preslove

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
From what I remember hearing on NPR, there were not any layoffs or Brewery closures planned as a result of this deal.

There never is. That's always the story - "this is for the best of both companies. We'll realize cost syndergies!"

That translates to - canning lots of people. That's how any takeover goes.

Inbev doesn't own a single fucking brewery in the United States. They have no reason to close any. In fact, they are more than likely going to start brewing their european brands here, and *gasp* might even have to expand the plants.

hmmm, that may be true, but InBev is actually famous for cutting costs. Lot's of local pubs in belgium decide not to sell anything of inbev. If you join Inbev, they decide which beer you may sell and which not and they take all the margins.

So they won't slow down production, but could lay off people if their efficiency analysts see that the production could be kept up with less people to pay.

 

[Geocentricity]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
meh..Anheuser-Bush made crappy beer anyways.

:thumbsup:

 

[dmcowen674]

I welcome this move because it will be a watermark in history:

This purchase will be a history mark for America and what was once American companies.

Americans will wake up and realize what has happened, stopped buying their product and this will be a $52 billion colossal loss.

The Busch family will forever be known as the Traitors that started the new American movement to bring American goods back to the U.S.

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: AntiFreze
Welcome to the free market. This doesn't make me sad at all. If you really want to support American brewing, than buy local craft brews. Not filthy rice beer.

Yep. It sucks when jobs are lost, but it's a necessary part of a working capitalist market. Any argument about transportation of foreign goods now that AB is foreign is inane. Local breweries are still going to be around and are even more local than AB "filthy rice beer".

 

[Fingolfin269]

I went through this entire thread and no one mentioned Rogue.

With that being said, and as much as I hate standard domestic beers like Bud/Bud Light, this sucks.

 

[SP33Demon]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
men..Anheuser-Bush made crappy beer anyways.

Yup, we still have Sam Adams and Yuengleng

Rolling Rock too. Even if it is piss.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Damn! My raid group of home brewers was just about to take them on. Oh well, guess we'll just have to wait for them to respawn.

 

[allisolm]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
men..Anheuser-Bush made crappy beer anyways.

Yup, we still have Sam Adams and Yuengleng

Rolling Rock too. Even if it is piss.

Anheuser-Busch owns Rolling Rock.

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
meh..Anheuser-Bush made crappy beer anyways.

And they will continue to do so. Can't make better quality beer without raising prices. With gas at $4 a gallon, you know nascar ticket prices are going up. You would have a riot if Budweiser had to raise the price on a 6 pack.

But as long as they keep the superbowl commercials.

Sam Adams FTW!

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
LOL! Welcome to a globalized world my friends! Better them than some Chinese company.

Want the trend to stop? Stregthen the Dollar. Until then, American companies are cheap buys.

I personally am all for a free market and hate AB beer products anyway.

Actually, (this is one of my optimistic moments), this is probably good news to those watching the strength of the dollar. Think about it for a moment - if you were about to spend 52billion dollars on something, and it was getting cheaper by the minute, don't you think you'd wait until you thought it reached about its cheapest price before committing to the purchase? It's not like other companies were lining up to make the same purchase.

I'm just hopeful that the price on Becks & Stella Artois goes down. I used to love St Pauli Girl too, but apparently my local distributor/grocery stores are incapable of figuring out how to store it to prevent it from getting skunky. I'd also love it if some brewer started importing Laurentide from Quebec. It's great for a cheap beer. It's like the PBR of America, except that it tastes good. Too much hassle in crossing the border now just to pick up a few fine brews.

Whoa - I just looked at ratebeer's top widely distributed beers. I don't see budweiser in the top 50! here Heck, when I sort by country and by state, I still don't see any AH beers in there.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
I went through this entire thread and no one mentioned Rogue.

With that being said, and as much as I hate standard domestic beers like Bud/Bud Light, this sucks.

This thread isn't worthy of Rogue. I :heart: Rogue.

KT

 

[AntiFreze]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
I welcome this move because it will be a watermark in history:

This purchase will be a history mark for America and what was once American companies.

Americans will wake up and realize what has happened, stopped buying their product and this will be a $52 billion colossal loss.

The Busch family will forever be known as the Traitors that started the new American movement to bring American goods back to the U.S.

wtf are you smoking?

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: Spartan Niner
If I'm looking for some inexpensive beer it'll be Sam Adams, Yuengling, or Carolina Brewery anyways... I like buying USA.

fat tire made just up the road from me by New Belgium Brewing Company.

 

[AntiFreze]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
I went through this entire thread and no one mentioned Rogue.

With that being said, and as much as I hate standard domestic beers like Bud/Bud Light, this sucks.

Rogue, Stone, Alesmith, Three Floyd's, Bells, Upland, Dogfish head, Flying Dog, Avery, Four Peaks, Russian River, Oskar Blues, New Holland...

Ok, I mentioned some more, if we are noting delicious beer

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: spidey07
Keep the profit at home, do not buy these products any more.

Did Anheuser-Bush buy "American" ingredients and use "American" labor to make their products?

ummm yea. there is a Bud plant just up the road from me in Ft collins. they buy local grains and im sure pay a nice water bill to the city of Ft. Collins.

 

[vi edit]

Whoa - I just looked at ratebeer's top widely distributed beers. I don't see budweiser in the top 50! here Heck, when I sort by country and by state, I still don't see any AH beers in there.

Meh. Ask any auto enthusiast what cars they like the most and they'll tell you something like a Porsche GT, or a BMW M3, or something along those lines. You know, $75,000+ cars.

But those cars don't dominate the sales charts. A Camry or a Civic does.

The thing with beer is that the difference between a "world class super beer" and a basic "commuter" beer is $5-$10. Not $50,000.

I brew my own. In fact I just bottled up a cherry wheat and dropped what will be a cherry chocolate stout into the fermentation tank this weekend. But I still don't have any problems stocking a Bud or Miller product in my fridge.

 

[freegeeks]

all your base are belong to us b*tches

<- Belgian

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: freegeeks
all your base are belong to us b*tches

<- Belgian

All my taste buds are belong to your monks!

 

[vi edit]

lag-o-riffic double post

 

[crystal]

Originally posted by: AntiFreze

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
I welcome this move because it will be a watermark in history:

This purchase will be a history mark for America and what was once American companies.

Americans will wake up and realize what has happened, stopped buying their product and this will be a $52 billion colossal loss.

The Busch family will forever be known as the Traitors that started the new American movement to bring American goods back to the U.S.

wtf are you smoking?

I was wondering the same thing.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

I need to start drinking alcohol so I can bitch and brag in threads like this.