Brand Loyalties: Buying Your Favorite Beverage Brands

When it comes to gift giving and buying accessories for your beer, wine and general drinking needs, do you find you’ll purchase brands you know and love? Or, do you tend to buy brands that you want people to think you know and love.
For instance, I’m a big tequila fan but there are very few [...]

InBev’s Official Anheuser-Busch Announcement

It’s now written in the history books, Anheuser-Busch InBev issued their press release this morning to let the world know they’ve taken over the original King of Beers brew house Anheuser-Busch. The new company name is Anheuser-Busch Inbev and is the worlds largest brewery, larger than before.
We covered this last night as it occurred but [...]

Anheuser-Busch Sells to InBev For $52 Billion

It’s now official, Anheuser-Busch is now owned by a foreign company, selling to InBev for 52-Billion Dollars. The company own Spaten, St. Pauli Girl, Bass, Becks and now Budweiser branding.
InBev is the largest brewer in the world and has expanded their dominion to own the King of Beers here in the United States, marking the [...]

Anheuser-Busch Rejects InBev Proposal

So it seems Anheuser-Bush has rejected InBev’s proposal for a buy-out at USD $65.00 a share because Anheuser-Bush believes they can “do better” in the market alone. After several days of meetings and internal talk the company thinks their own products are worth more, over time, than the purchase price and can get their share [...]

Hops In Short Supply: Beer Prices Rise

In the last few years we’ve had crop reductions in the United States for one of our most precious crops: the hop. The second shortage falls on the barley, which lends a sweetness to balance out the flavor and bitter from the hops. Both ingredients are in short supply which means prices on the core [...]

USDA Certified Organic Beers?

It’s all the rage. USDA certified organic products are cropping up everywhere in marketplaces across many industries. We’re not talking about a Kosher product exactly, but a certified and monitored crop which is considered organic by the United States Department of Agriculture.
Why is this so important? Certain folks believe in using only all natural ingredients [...]

Grupo Modelo: Corona Extra - Mexican Style

Corona is a pilsner brewed in Mexico by Grupo Modelo. If you’re a beer drinker there is a great chance you’ve heard of, or have had, a Corona beer.
Grupo Modelo is a very large brewery in Mexico famous for many beers exported to our country, including Corona Extra, Corona Light, Negra Modelo, Pacifico and a [...]

Microbrew or Mass Marketing Beer?

A microbrew or a mass marketed brew is the long argued topic in my family. My father-in-law believes Budweiser is the king of beers while I’d rather drink a Shipyard or Bass Ale any day of the week over a Bud or Coors Light. I’ve got nothing personal against Anheuser-Bush, heck, but most of their [...]