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If you live in St. Louis, there is no possible way that you could have missed the news this week regarding the takeover of hometown favorite Anheuser-Busch by Belgian company InBev. Nowhere else is this felt more psychologically than here in St. Louis.

We have all grown up drinking AB products, Budweiser, Bud Light and more recently Bud Select. How many us before we were of legal age drank case after case of Natural Light? It’s a part of the fabric of our being.

Tonight on CNBC there was a show titled “American Originals: Budweiser“. It was a great show covering everything from history to the current state of the Beer industry.

What has yet to be determined is how the local consumer will handle this. Will they switch and drink local brewers rejecting the support of a foreign company? or will they remain loyal to the brands that they grew up with?

I wonder how we’d all react if General Motors were purchased by Toyota.

It’s a sign of the devaluation of the American Dollar, but hopefully not the American way of life.

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