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"TheBeerNut":2ufc6byu wrote:

"KeeganAles":2ufc6byu wrote: Bud buys Budvar.[/quote:2ufc6byu]No it didn't. It bought the "Budweiser" naming rights from a totally different brewery. Budvar is unaffected, and the other brewery's brewing operations are unaffected.

There's a good, brief, explanation of the deal on Pivní Filosof here[/url:2ufc6byu].[/quote:2ufc6byu]

I re-read the original and the second link and my head hurts now.

To be precise, it seems AB-InBev didn't buy *the* Budweiser naming rights, but just Budweiser naming rights - as in, both breweries based in Ceske Budejovice can make a beer called Budweiser.

Am I right here?

"KeeganAles":mn77o2q6 wrote: as in, both breweries based in Ceske Budejovice can make a beer called Budweiser.[/quote:mn77o2q6]After this deal I think Budvar is the only brewery that can make Budweiser beer. Samson have sold their right to do so to A-B InBev. A-B InBev can make Budweiser beer in the town, but don't have a brewery in which to do it. Chances are they'll contract Samson to do it for them.