Posted on 01/21/2010 12:44:22 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Mmmm. Westmalle Trappist Ale.
pats muh frosty Heiny tenderly..
I’m not in it for the profit personally.
It’s a cruel world out there. Stock up regularly.
That’s a good one too. I think I may need to compare them all now.
Sacrifices have to be made
Looks like going to start drinking Iron City...
“(The ‘ugly face of Capitalism’, union job layoffs loom)”
I’d call it the ugly face of unions. Too bad boys.
If AB can make just as much beer with 10% fewer people, then society will will become wealthier as those people begin to go somewhere else and actually add value.
No sign of strikers here...
Brewery Ommegang. Belgian brewing in America.
Phenominal stuff. The Chocolate Indulgence Porter actually surpasses the best Belgian brew I've ever tasted.
How dare you suggest they lose the right to be paid not to add value to anything!
The best information that I can find is that their revenue for 2009 was $17.7B. That puts their $1.55B at just under 9% profit. What profit % would be acceptable to these union goons and would they be willing to accept the same return on their pension plans and 401K’s?
Maybe Obama can invite both sides to the White House for a beer summit.
Probably more people have heard of Hercule Poirot than of Hoegaarden.
BEER Ping....
You just mentioned my favorite beer of all time. I was sitting at an outdoor cafe in Leuven Belgium and Westmalle’s brewmaster just happened to be next sitting next to me. We had quite a few together. Westmalle’s triple is my all time favorite beer, ever..!
Westmalle is a Trappist and will never, ever be owned by InBev. Heck, they are so quality focused that it took several years to switch from open tank fermenting to conical fermenters. All so they could keep the quality the same.
I love it in Belgium and try to go to the Great Belgium Beer Festival every year in the Grande’ Place in Brussels.. Three days of 300+ Belgian beers!
InBev purchased Hoegaarden from Pierre Cellis and closed the hometown brewery in the city of Hoegaarden. The people of the city were so upset that they petitioned the EU to take the name away from the beer. The beer quality went down hill in the new facility and I now hear that they returned some production to the original city. This is an excellent wit or “white” beer made from wheat with coriander, grains of paradise and bitter orange peel added to the boil. I’ve been making it in my homebrew setup for quite a few years now.
I love it in Belgium as they sell beer in the vending machines just as we sell soda here in the USA.
Thanks, BFL.
Best beer I ever had was Timothy Taylors Landlord Beer in The Black Bull in Haworth, England. Need to win the lottery to get back there. Off topic reminiscence.
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