Thanks to Jason Peltier and Chef Jeffrey Rose of the Big Rock Chophouse and Brewery, we’ll be on Fox Channel 2 news tomorrow AM, sampling grilled goodies from the cookbooks and fresh beer from brewer Dan Rogers. I sampled the Big Rock Imperial H…
The self proclaimed “organic pioneers” have created a barleywine style ale that they say “you’ll be lucky…” to walk away from. Barleywine ales are typically very robust and this is no exception as it weighs in at …
The saga whose outcome so many claimed not to care too much about had fingers perched atop the refresh button tonight, waiting for the deal to officially hit the wire. So, here it is….Anheuser-Busch InBev…a name which I predict will be changed wit…
Once the takeover of Anheuser-Busch by InBev is completed, a curious thing will happen to the landscape of American brewing. It’s certainly something I never expected to be writing in my lifetime, but it’s true. The Boston Beer Co., who b…
To older people who bemoan the crass-ization of our culture, the rise of prurience and the grotesque in mainstream media, I present you with a bottle of Coney Island Lager. Tell me that face does not launch a million nightmares. Yet, it is merely a r…
That other, very big, shoe just dropped.
In a Sunday afternoon vote of Anheuser-Busch’s Board of Directors, meeting at the Spirit of St. Louis airport in Chesterfield, Missouri, the $70 per share offer by InBev to acquire A-B was approved. The total sale will be nearly $50 billion and …
A-B agrees to sell out, WSJ and others report.
The Anheuser-Busch board agreed Friday to sell out to InBev for $70 a share, or nearly $50 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported.
From the WSJ story:
Anheuser-Busch Cos. agreed to be acquired Sunda…
Well, folks, it’s all over. The deed is done, indeed. The deal for InBev to acquire Anheuser-Busch has been agreed upon in principle, for nearly $50 billion. It’s not really over, of course, because it still has to wind its way through th…
I have to admit that beer blogging has given me far more than I have ever given it. Through beer blogging I have electronically met a particularly rich seam of the most gracious and generous folk in the English-speaking world. One of the finest is, of…