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This just in from ProBrewer.com:

It’s a done deal – InBev to to buy A-B!

The Anheuser-Busch board of directors voted today in favor of Belgian brewer InBev's $49.9 billion takeover offer, according to media reports.

Reports surfaced Friday that A-B's board was poised to accept the offer from InBev, which boosted its offer by $5 to $70 a share in an effort to seal a friendly deal and create the world's largest brewer.

The combined company, which is slated to house its North American headquarters in St. Louis, will be called Anheuser-Busch-InBev. A-B would have representation on the combined company's board of directors, according to the article.

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From Reuter's stolen from Potable Curmudgeon

Good Lord!!!!! I thought the Borg Collective was just Star Trek science fiction! It is alive! Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated! Everyone needs to go out tonight and hoist a flagon of your favorite independent brew. Rebel groups will still be meeting @ BBC & NABC. Dulce et Decorum Est!!!!!

foreign owned bud

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Jay Brooks makes an interesting point about how this affects the American Brewer landscape and who the new big 3 are...
http://www.brookstonbeerbulletin.com/samuel-adams-biggest-american-brewer/

Good Lord!!!!! I thought the Borg Collective was just Star Trek science fiction! It is alive! Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated! Everyone needs to go out tonight and hoist a flagon of your favorite independent brew. Rebel groups will still be meeting @ BBC & NABC. Dulce et Decorum Est!!!!!

Let's all meet in the Delta quadrant to drink some Klingon ale and eat fresh targ. I've heard the heart and lungs are particularly tasty.