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St. Louis’ craft brewers are saying they have something more than quirkiness: Staying power.

Craft brewers…

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Sure, they’re a little arcane and obscure, those closed-door negotiations in the U.S. Congress over how to pay for a proposed health care overhaul. But you can bet that the beer industry is paying attention.…

A Lager Heads reader in Houston asked us to check into a recent news story on the website of the KHOU television station. The story reports that “Anheuser-Busch in east Houston wants money from the state of Texas so it can keep…

A while back, we discussed Anheuser-Busch’s strong trends of beer shipments to wholesalers in Missouri. We included a somewhat skeptical view from one of our sources, who wondered if A-B’s wholesalers actually needed all of that beer.  Were the middlemen being…

The Associated Press has picked up a fascinating angle in the century-long battle between Anheuser-Busch and Czech brewery Budejovicky Budvar. Budvar, which is tussling with A-B (now Anheuser-Busch InBev, of course) in courts across the world over a trademark dispute related to…

What is the world’s top beer brand? Apparently, it depends on whom you ask.

Data from U.K.-based research group Plato Logic shows Chinese beer Snow jumped ahead of Bud Light to become the world’s biggest selling beer last year, according to a story from…

It was way before Lager Heads‘ time. But back in the day, Schlitz beer was a dominant brand in the U.S. The Schlitz brewing empire started in 1849 in Milwaukee. By the turn of the century, it was known as “the…

The reconfigured work stations on the ninth floor of Anheuser-Busch

A skeptical analyst once told Lager Heads that Anheuser-Busch InBev, loaded with billions of debt from the $52 billion deal that created the world’s No. 1 brewer, would soon be reduced to…

We knew that beer is resilient when times are tough. But some new data show just how much momentum alcohol sales have.

Our friends at Information Resources Inc. crunched some numbers on the sales of the top ten product categories in U.S.…

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s biggest brewer, has lost an appeal to a European Union court to use the term ‘Budweiser‘ across Europe. It’s the latest turn in a legal battle with a smaller Czech brewery. The controversy over beer trademarks goes…