A lawsuit opposing AB-InBev's USD 20.1 billion acquisition of Grupo Modelo by nine consumer groups lost its bid for a court order blocking the deal, U.S. media reported on 5 June 2013.

The global wine glut may be ending but now there is an orange glut building up.

Only years ago, any craft brewer wanting to supply beer in cans would have risked the Fall from Grace. Cans were considered, oh so mass-market and not in keeping with craft beer’s superior appeal. But now that even Boston Beer, the maker of Samuel Adams beer, has introduced the “Sam can”, something must have happened to cans’ erstwhile boo-boo image.

Oh, oh, more ammunition for the obesity police. At the end of May 2013 Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest Coca-Cola franchise bottler in the world, completed its merger with Grupo Yoli, a family-owned Coca-Cola bottler and soft drink manufacturer, best known for its lime-flavoured soft drink Yoli, popular in its home base of Acapulco.

Everybody I asked seemed to agree that AB-Inbev plans to produce Corona Extra, Modelo’s best-selling beer, in Brazil. But when will it be? It took AB-InBev three years after they purchased Anheuser-Busch to start production of Budweiser in Latin America’s major beer market.

On 17 May 2013 AB-InBev snapped up another beer distributor. It bought C&G Distributing Company in Lima, Ohio, for an undisclosed sum, merely weeks before a new law comes into effect that prevents brewers in the state of Ohio from acquiring beer distributors.

They don’t seem to rush things down in Texas. Although the Gambrinus Company ranks fourth among U.S. craft brewers in terms of volume, it has up till now avoided selling its Shiner beers in New York City.

Not wanting to be left out in the rush to the next Clondyke, AB-InBev’s CEO Carlos Brito told shareholders on 24 April 2013 at AB-InBev’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting (ASM) that his company plans to join rivals in Vietnam at the end of 2014 with the construction of a brewery.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and AB–InBev jointly requested on 5 April 2013 that a stay in their legal fight be extended to 23 April 213. However, they said they had reached the framework of an agreement to settle.

Who are these people that are suing Anheuser–Busch for millions of dollars in damages over claims that the brewer is watering down its Budweiser, Michelob and other brands? Since the end of February 2013 at least eight lawsuits have been filed against Anheuser–Busch (A–B), the U.S. unit of AB–InBev, accusing it of adding water to several beers, bringing the alcohol levels in the beers below those stated on the labels.