Scott: you are absolutely right! This sucks, but isn’t it the Capitalistic way? We can only hurt St. Louis more by boycotting the products. If you DON’T want St. Louis to become the next Flint, MI, then don’t forsake the products, the new company, and St. Louis. If the beer was good before, then it’s good now, at least until InBev cuts quality. We should try to give the new company a chance. The Busch family didn’t want this. Employee stockholders didn’t want this. But CAPITALISTIC STOCKHOLDERS, likely not employed at the company, DID. Also, shouldn’t we look at the root cause problem, THE WEAK DOLLAR!

Uh Scott do your homework before you pop off. The merger between Coors and Molson was a JOINT VENTURE to combine sales, marketing, and production. It was not a total BUYOUT like the InBev/AB deal. The Coors family still owns the brewery in Colorado. Look it up.

IT WILL BE GREAT FOR ST. LOUIS - the focus will be put on actually making a profit!

Business is Business
If you want a friend get a dog - Gordon Gecko!!!!!!!!!!!!

To those who say HQ will be moved. To where? And why? Do you know how much property AB has downtown? He isn’t going to place those buildings in a fire sale just so he can move somewhere else for no good reason and have to buy more property.

It is a sad day for St. Louis and America. For the employees of A-B I will still support the company but if they do move it from St. Louis that support will be over.

There was the rumor that this deal might be nixed because, as a foreign company, InBev did commerce in Cuba. What happened with that facet of the issue? Did such a facet even exist?

So, what’s left? Ted Drews and Imo’s?

Not only have we lost one of the great icons this city has, A-B made it worse by intially saying no to the deal. It appears they were just waiting around for a higher price. And as disgusted as I feel now, things are going to get a whole lot worse in the next few years.

Goodbye, Anheuser-Busch. And to think, I was going to tour the brewery now that I’m old enough to get the drinks at the end. Guess I better find myself a new brand.

great deal! nothing is forever, but this deal once again makes AB (et al) the largest brewery in the world. thank goodness the ballclub was sold several years ago. the beer will always be the best lager around (at least, in ours lifetime)

more later

thanks for the forum.

I will never buy AB again. So much for the great American Lager.

This is good for St Louis - will expose AB products to new markets