Friday, June 01, 2012

Baylor on Beer at LouisvilleBeer.com: "Domestic? Yes and no."

In honor of the imperative of formerly American, domesticated lagers at event like this evening's Live @ Five, here's my latest column at LouisvilleBeer.com

As for "domestic," it all depends on how you look (or most of the time) don't look at it.


Domestic? Yes and no.

Ever since Anheuser-Busch was folded into the international monolith currently known as AB-Inbev, there has been no single polemical activity quite as entertaining as reminding flag-waving, chest-thumping, God-fearing patriots that their carbonated urine of choice no longer emanates from an American-owned brewery.
Rather, it has become the possession of a dastardly multinational conglomerate. That’s right: Controlled by the same overseas shareholders who likely speak vernacular European (where the phrase for unfathomable dishwater is pronounced “Stella Artois”), routinely torture poor geese for use of their fattened livers, and not only know what a bidet is, but also how to use it.

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