Beer isn't usually served with fast food, at least in this country, but the folks on Pestalozzi Street have good reason to pay attention to the Burger King buyout. 3G Capital, the private-equity firm that just landed BK for $3.3 billion, is also a major shareholder in Anheuser-Busch InBev.

The New York Times' Dealbook, which posted a profile of 3G yesterday, points out that the three 3G partners all serve on the board of the world's largest brewer. They include Jorge Paolo Lemann, the Brazilian investor who built up Brazilian brewer AmBev and merged it into Belgium-based InBev in 2004. InBev, of course, bought St. Louis' Anheuser-Busch in 2008 for $52 billion.