Grant’s Farm will cut back its hours earlier than usual this year. Starting Aug. 10, the estate will only be open on Saturdays and Sundays.

Bird line suggestions:

• Farm report
• Crowd control
• Barnstormers
• Shutting the barn door
• Weekend at Auggie’s: Selected as the Bird line,…

Jeremiah McWilliams, beer industry expert, explains why InBev needed to buy Anheuseser-Busch. In a nutshell: The company’s own vulnerabilities, success with cost-cutting measures and diversity. (Jeremiah is not to be confused with Adam Jadhav, our beer critic.)

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InBev CEO Carlos Brito was in St. Louis on Tuesday, starting the transition from Anheuser-Busch to Anheuser-Busch InBev.

Bird line suggestions:

• New kid in town
• Toast of the town
• Long live the king
• New kid on the block
• Capping it off

Today’s Bird line: Making…

The Anheuser-Busch InBev deal is one of the largest takeovers in history and will start out with a lot of debt. I mean a lot of debt. Beyond that, though, how things will work under the new company remain the subject…

If you haven’t already heard or read, Anheuser-Busch accepted InBevs $50 billion takeover offer. The new company will be called Anheuser-Busch InBev.

Coming up with today’s Bird line was a little different than usual. Typically, the news copy desk gets…

Those Anheuser-Busch/InBev talks aren’t over, but now they might be a little more friendly than the attempted takeover bid was.

Bird line suggestions:

• Deal is brewing
• Last call?
• A-B see

Today’s Bird line: Beer barons polka

Miller’s relationship with Milwaukee is a lot like Anheuser-Busch’s relationship with St. Louis: Potentially rocky.

Bird line suggestions:

• Miller low-life
• Miller Lite’s out
• Last call for Milwaukee
• Changes brewing
• Another stein mess
• At lager-heads

Today’s Bird line: SAB story

If InBev buys Anheuser-Bush — Calm down! I said if! — what will that mean for the local craft brewers?

The copy desk has come up with a lot of beer-related Bird lines recently, and keep coming up with more…

Anheuser-Busch made it official yesterday, and rejected InBev’s takeover bid saying it was “financially inadequate and not in the best interests of Anheuser-Busch shareholders.”

Bird line suggestions:

• Draft dodger (This was almost the Bird line, but it didn’t match up…

It’s the news we’ve been waiting to hear: What in the world are Anheuser-Busch board members going to do about that $46 billion takeover bid from InBev? Looks like they’re saying “Thanks, but no thanks.” (It’s not over — InBev can…