I posted the earlir note (below the fold below) in 2015, long before Modelo Especial became the second best-selling brand of beer in the US. Outside of the US, BUD owns Modelo -- which few of us probably knew until now.
Many, many, many story lines.
From The WSJ over the weekend:
July 21, 2015
This is kind of cool. Don sent me a link to today's post by Mark Perry (Carpe Diem)
which has an interesting graph of the Bakken. That alone is worth the
visit, but even more interesting is the note about Pabst Blue Ribbon.
It's hard to find inexpensive beer in a can for beer can chicken. PBR is
the answer, although I sometimes have trouble finding it. As a
substitute, Modelo from Mexico.
And speaking of "hip" PBR. Perhaps the most hip singer in the past few years, Lana Del Rey, mentions PBR in This Is What Makes Us Girls.
By the way, speaking of current culture, I finally connected the last dot with regard to David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. I can now die happy.
I've also finally beginning to understand the progression of dinosaurs
to birds and mammal-like reptiles to mammals after reading Richard
Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale for the third time. I don't always "get" something the first time around.
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A Musical Interlude
Bruce
ReplyDeleteModelo is owned by Constellation Brands.
Yes, that is accurate. I made that very, very clear, though I did not mention Constellation Brands by name. "Outside" the US, BUD (InBev) owns Modelo; in the US, Constellation Brands owns Modelo. It was a US regulatory requirement that resulted in that "separation."
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