Mark Bennett: Foreign ownership of the U.S’s most famous beer is less a sign of the apocalypse...

By Mark Bennett The Tribune-Star An earthquake. A flood. A recession. $4-a-gallon gas. Layoffs. Flying insects everywhere. And now the last straw … Our frosty Buds have gone Belgian. Inside the 7th & Elm Bar and Grille, Kevin Titsworth shook his head about the situation as he munched on a burger, fries and a soft drink. “It’s hard to see an American icon taken away from us,” said Titsworth, on his lunch break as a territory manager for a Fishers, Ind., foodservice company Thursday. “It just doesn’t seem right to have Anheuser-Busch outside the United States.” The maker of Budweiser — the beer whose red, white and blue label proclaims it the “Great American Lager” — sold for $52 billion in a takeover bid by Belgian brewer InBev last week. InBev CEO Carlos Brito insisted Anheuser-Busch’s 12 North American breweries would remain... [read full story]