If I'm recalling correctly, Texas is the only state that requires the "ale" designation for beer of a certain strength.
Incidentally, A-B argued in favor of changing the "ale" labeling law in favor of allowing it to be used as a descriptive style/brewing method designator, not as a marker of strength:
Other way around: A-B is trying to talk Modelo into selling A-B the other half it doesn't already own.
Pity InBev doesn't have much of anything to do with them.
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Oh - InBev is a Belgian company according to you? To me it is a Brazilian-steered multinational... Joris
The U.S. is for sale – and foreign investors are buying The dollar's slump makes scooping up US businesses and real estate a financial bargain. By David R. Francis
posted June 09, 2008 at 11:00 am EDT
The United States has become a bustling bargain basement for world investors. Using excess dollars earned as a result of the massive US trade deficit, foreigners are buying up big chunks of the nation's businesses and properties. The latest shoppers: Abu Dhabi for New York's Chrysler Building and a Belgian-Brazilian brewery for Anheuser-Busch.
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Looks like it's considered "Belgian-Brazilian" to some.
In the USA, we see far more evidence of InBev's Belgian connections than its Brazilian connections. Where I live, Brahma lager is pretty much non-existent, but there's no shortage of Stella Artois, Leffe, and Hoegaarden.
Sqwertz wrote in news:160608.211430rfc+rfdb+ snipped-for-privacy@sqwertz.com:
Oddly enough, some of the Mexican beer makers have beer more toward their German roots than does A-B. Negra Modelo is one of the few mass made Vienna style lagers available outside of Austria. It is great with spicy food too.
yedyegiss wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net:
And in the 80's the Japanese were buying up America.....
Negra Modelo is one of the few mass-made Vienna-style lagers, period. The style has nearly disappeared from Austrian brewing. Vienna's remaining big production brewery, Ottakringer, markets a "Schnitt," which is sorta like an old-style Vienna lager, but is actually a blend of their pale and dark lagers. Their "Zwickl rot" is a red unfiltered lager that is something like a rustic, yeasty version of a Vienna lager.
Otherwise, revivalist Vienna lagers are pretty much the domain of small specialist brewers, particularly Vienna's Siebenstern and Salm brewpubs.
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