Yeah. Denmark is also just part owner of Lego now.

Half Mast? You crazy?

Bud is just rice beer anyway. Should have been purchased by the Chinese. Maybe it will actually turn into BEER being owned by a Belgian company. Though they'll probably leave it thin and bad tasting as it's always been. (Can you tell I've never been a fan?) I guess it's good for the kiddie set as I personally don't know any mature adults who actually drink the stuff.

Horray for the microbrews! That's what AMERICAN beer is all about anyway.

Well it just got easier to buy a European beer

ouch, xark !! let up a little.

being a country boy from the south, im taking this sell out pretty hard.

america is becoming less and less american, and now we can thank anheuser busch for playing a big part in that.
i guess pride and tradition was not as important as they led us to believe all these years.

the so-called "great american lager" getting sold out to overseas interest. what a damn shame.

What goes around comes around. We spent a lot of years buying up crap from other countries, but for some reason we're all offended that another country bought something of ours. I understand it's an American Icon, but let's get real. It's going to happen and it's going to happen more and more.

Yes, it's a damned shame, but it's how it is. Think of it this way. The American's who started the company, just got a whole lot richer at the expense of an overseas firm. Like the old addage says, "Everyone's got a price." $52 billion of Europe's money is coming back to the US.

i know its true but it still feels like a stab in the back.

i wonder if american jobs will be affected?
will they still make and bottle it in the same places?

this is almost as bad as when my boss sold christmas.
we had a singing santa here at work. he was smoking a winston and sang to you when you walked by.
everybody thought it was great.
nobody could remember where it came from, and nobody knew where to buy another one.
now its gone forever.
first santa, and now budwieser. what is the world coming to?

barney fife died, and andy is gonna be gone one of these days.
oooohhhh, the humanity.

Like Xark said, before America started becoming european, Europe spent a long time becoming American. There isn't much "europe" left in Europe anymore. Anyway, the Belges are supposed to know how to make beer so it shouldn't be that bad. I'd be more worried if Ford or Coca Cola or other irrelevant company bought a brewery.

I don't have a problem with the Belges. I have a problem with the company being sold in the first place. Bud was never my favorite beer, in fact, I drink McEwan's more than anything else. I am quite fond of some of the micro brews here in America as Xark pointed out. There has been a much needed beer renaissance here in the US with micro brews. It's just that Bud has always been an American beer company and as Johnny pointed out, I keep seeing so many American icons being sold to overseas corporations. Winchester was sold to the Japanese a couple of years ago, and that didn't go down to well either. But like you said, if it's going to happen, it's going to happen more and more .Maybe the Brits can buy Gibson, the Germans can buy PRS, and the Japanese can have Fender and the Americans, well the Americans can sit there and watch.