Marin Institute, a longtime critic of the alcohol industry, dropped a “bombshell” report this week criticizing Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors, the two largest brewers in the U.S. The report called beer “the most widely used drug in America” and urged the Obama…

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Anheuser-Busch and PepsiCo, two of the world’s biggest beverage companies, have agreed to jointly purchase certain goods and services in the U.S, such as information technology hardware, office supplies, travel and facilities services, transportation, and maintenance…

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The bad times continue for imported beer, those fancy, (generally) expensive brews from places like Mexico, the Netherlands and Germany.

The Washington-based Beer Institute released figures showing that imported beer shipments were down more than 8 percent in July,…

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This is for any Lager Heads readers who missed our story in the Post-Dispatch on Sunday. We wanted to know: Where is August Busch IV, the former CEO of Anheuser-Busch? Ever since InBev took over Anheuser-Busch, Busch has been flying…

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We’ve got a little more perspective to flesh out our story about how Natural Light’s advertising has gone national, hitting cable channels like Comedy Central, Spike and Versus that attract that all-important young male demographic.

One reason…

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When will Stella Artois‘ growth slow down? The Belgian brand has been spurred to greater heights since InBev took over Anheuser-Busch. But has it reached the saturation point? Trade publication Beer Business Daily tackled that question recently.…

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In the midst of a rough summer, the beer industry just posted a victory. Trade groups representing brewers big and small have cajoled over half of the legislators in the House of Representatives to sign…

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Lager Heads had an excellent Fourth of July. Good company, good fireworks, and all that jazz. But if we were responsible for selling beer, we might not have been so relaxed and happy.

This was a pretty…

Lager Heads usually leaves beer tastings to more expert palates, such as those belonging to our Post-Dispatch colleagues Tim Townsend or Adam Jadhav.

But occasionally we like to jump into the game ourselves. The story below, the result of a recent foray into…

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The question has been simmering for months: Will Anheuser-Busch InBev try to streamline its sprawling network of U.S. beer distributors as it prowls for cost savings?

On Wednesday, an analyst’s take on the issue heightened the discussion…