ATTACK BELGIUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[underpants]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=adu3krOfyl9Q&refer=home

Anheuser-Busch Receives $46.3 Billion Bid From InBev (Update2)

June 11 (Bloomberg) -- InBev NV made an unsolicited offer to buy Anheuser-Busch Cos. for $46.3 billion to gain half of the U.S. beer market and overtake SABMiller Plc as the world's biggest brewer by volume.

Anheuser-Busch climbed as much as 9.7 percent in late New York trading after saying in a statement today that its board will evaluate the $65-a-share proposal ``in due course.'' InBev said in a separate statement on its Web site that it intends to pay for the purchase with cash.

[Rick Myers]

1. Screw the OIL, they want to control our BEER!!!

:beer:

[Xipe Totec]

4. And that, Sir, would be a good thing....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_beer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westvleteren_Brewery

[frickaline]

35. heck yeah

:toast: :bounce:

[Taverner]

2. You know, I hope Belgian companies buy ALL our macrobreweries

Coors, Anheuser, Pabst - ALL OF EM

Maybe they can teach the US that beer is not supposed to taste like diseased rat piss.

[DarkTirade]

12. ... and you can tell the difference between diseased and regular rat piss?

Actually I'm pretty sure the regular beers taste like rat piss, whereas the 'lite' beers taste like diseased rat piss.

[Taverner]

15. Well consider me a rat piss connoisseur

Actually - Caribbean 'beers', only sold here because stupid frat boys had their honeymoons at Sandals and want to reminisce, are diseased rat piss.

[DarkTirade]

18. I can't tell the difference myself...

but all I know is that I spent 4 years living in a college apartment complex and never managed to develop a taste for beer. It wasn't until afterwards that I discovered that it was because college kids drink nothing but crap beer.

First beer I ever had that I actually liked was a Sam Adams Summer Ale.

And I've got a couple in my fridge right now. :)

[Taverner]

21. Do you like Dogfish Head Beers?

[DarkTirade]

23. Only tried one a long time ago

I seem to recall thinking well of it, but it's been a while.

There's one beer I'd like to find again, I don't remember if it was belgian or just belgian 'style', but it was called Terrible, and it was fantastic. :P

[Taverner]

27. Check out all their stuff

Belgian Style is probably pretty close to Belgians - they are importing our Microbrews. That's a good sign!

[DarkTirade]

29. Nice.

:thumbsup:

Good to know that we can still make good stuff, even if it's doesn't go mainstream here.

[BryMan]

30. Dogfish is pretty good.

My fav is Newcastle, yeah I know it's like the Busweiser of England and all, but I love the stuff.

[Taverner]

31. Newcastle is better than Bud

[BryMan]

37. Oh that goes without saying LOL

I haven't tasted a Budweiser in over a decade and a half, and I am 100% sure it is the same pisswater is was years ago. Even worse is Bud light, watered down pisswater, beer for people with no taste that love to urinate.

[cloudbase]

3. We'll launch a preemptive strike

and take THEIR beer. Hell, we'll take their chocolate, too, just for good measure and to show them who's boss. That's one I could enlist for, if they'd be willing to take an old fart.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. Old farts seem less offensive to me.... it's the new ones that

curl my lip in disdain. (excuse the grammar)

[KansDem]

10. Don't forget their waffles!

[cloudbase]

14. Right you are!

I'm old and forgetful.

[rucky]

16. We'll give 'em back their kickboxers, though...

[Blue_Tires]

5. cool...isn't that like Ferrari making an offer to buy Ford?

[C_U_L8R]

7. oh dear.. next thing y'know

we'll all be eatin' waffles !!!!

[geardaddy]

8. And eating our pommes frites with mayonnaise.

:D

[truebrit71]

36. Yum!

.

[geardaddy]

9. Good.

Aside the fact that AB is shite, isn't Cindy McCain also the heir to that company?

[Wizard777]

11. I think she owns the distributorship. Not the brewery.

After what Rumsfeld did to them. It wouldn't suprize me if they were buying it just to say, Cindy YOU'RE FIRED!

[geardaddy]

34. Ahh. I knew she was linked to AB

Thanks for the correction.

Maybe if they buy Anheuser-Busch, we'll get drink Budvar instead of Crapweiser.

[hisownpetard]

13. STELLAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!

[BelgianMadCow]

17. Jupiler

;-)

[C_U_L8R]

20. mmm I could use a Stella about now

[hisownpetard]

32. And a "croque Monsieur" aux frites!

[madame defarge]

24. Rodenbach!

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/216/1882

[dave29]

19. First they cornered the market on waffles.

Will these people ever stop?

[madame defarge]

22. Yes, definitely attack Belgium...

and give me all the chocolate...



and I'll share the beer...

[PBS Poll-435]

25. Dang You!

I was going to make a waffles post!

And I love waffles!

[HughMoran]

26. ....for the horrible plight they instigated in Rwanda - yeah

Measuring foreheads and noses in Rwanda and declaring what they considered the more intellectual look as "Tutsi" and the less smart "Hutu".

:puke:

Fucking ass holes.

[nebenaube]

28. yes

it would be a good thing... I might even try it then.

[Carnea]

33. Um they are in reality a Brazillian company with a minor Belgian front. NT

So we are going to need new jokes.....

[Fleshdancer]

38. If they can make the beer drinkable, then I'm all for this.

:D

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

39. Will it be stronger than water under Belgium rule?

[Cleita]

40. That didn't go very well for Hitler did it? n/t