We’re #2!

Here’s something you might not have guessed: With Anheuser-Busch’s sale to InBev, the second-largest brewery in the United States will be Yuengling when the sale is complete. (Samuel Adams is #1.)

Incidentally, InBev makes such beers as Stella Artois and Beck’s, so a merger with Budweiser seems appropriate. Actually, I don’t remember if Beck’s is any good, but I do know Stella is freaking disgusting.

Update: And Crown Holdings (nee Crown Cork and Seal) makes most of the beer packaging in the U.S., too, right? it’s a Philadelphia party in the beer market!

Anheuser-Busch Sells [Foobooz]

Another Four-Hour Celebration Of Gluttony

Sunday is, of course, Super Bowl Sunday, a day when the entire country gets together to gather around television sets and celebrate a sport that causes its competitors to spend their entire lives in immense pain after their careers are over. (Yay!)

Of course, for those who aren’t big football fans, there is always the commercials. Super Bowl ads almost always fail to entertain, but that doesn’t stop them from getting big publicity anyway. KYW 1060’s John Ostapkovich interviews a Harrisburg woman, Mary Pedersen, who runs a website where one can rate the Super Bowl advertisements right after the game.

Here’s the all-time highest rated spot:

“The entire airport into which these troops returning home were walking was very silent. You know, here we’re hearing lots of music, lots of laughing, funny jokes. Even in the room around you and Anheuser Busch stopped all of that to honor the troops.”

No, Mary, I’m pretty sure Anheuser Busch did all of that to get people like you to say their name without them having to pay for it.

Super Bowl Viewers Will Rate Ads on Harrisburg Web Site [KYW 1060]
Editor’s Note: Joke stolen from, I think, Craig Kilborn-era Daily Show. Whatever happened to Craig Kilborn?