Anheuser Busch

[Blaithin]

A quick google search and Anheuser-Busch does use their own malt, I don’t really know the difference between a brewer or a maltster nor do I care, I do enjoy a beer and I don’t care if it’s cold or warm, probably prefer a room temperature one.

I’m sure everyone in sales, marketing and advertising is paying close attention now.

If you don’t know the difference between a Maltster and a Brewster then how can you say Maltsters are listening with so much confidence? You don’t even know what they do!

If AB does their own Malting then farmers going to the MaltCos here and demanding to know who the MaltCo sells their product too if they want to buy the grain will not only be ineffective but will make the farmers look like ignoramuses. If they supply themselves this won’t even have a trickle down effect on local MaltCos.

Commodities go through many hands on their way to the shelves. The commodity dealers and processors really don’t care or take that much note, there’s always someone for their products. They may not pursue the same marketing course themselves, but they’re not going to cater to people if it means losing a sale. They’re going to sell their product to who pays most for it.

Your logic is like saying you won’t sell wheat to the grain elevator because you don’t like Robin Hood as a company.

[FarmJunkie]

[QUOTE=Blaithin;564505]If you don’t know the difference between a Maltster and a Brewster then how can you say Maltsters are listening with so much confidence? You don’t even know what they do!

If AB does their own Malting then farmers going to the MaltCos here and demanding to know who the MaltCo sells their product too if they want to buy the grain will not only be ineffective but will make the farmers look like ignoramuses. If they supply themselves this won’t even have a trickle down effect on local MaltCos.

Commodities go through many hands on their way to the shelves. The commodity dealers and processors really don’t care or take that much note, there’s always someone for their products. They may not pursue the same marketing course themselves, but they’re not going to cater to people if it means losing a sale. They’re going to sell their product to who pays most for it.

Your logic is like saying you won’t sell wheat to the grain elevator because you don’t like Robin Hood as a company.[/QUOTE

Well this is the problem with situations like this. The people that can influence change get talked out of it and stymied but what ifs and won’t works. We hold a lot of power but don’t follow though because there’s always a doubter

[Blaithin]

Well this is the problem with situations like this. The people that can influence change get talked out of it and stymied but what ifs and won’t works. We hold a lot of power but don’t follow though because there’s always a doubter

The influencing is not buying the product, not denying to sell your product to someone who has little to nothing to do with it.

But hey, you don’t want to sell your malt as malt because you’re worried it’ll eventually end up in an AB brewery then go for it. I’d rather grade feed barley than malt all day long.

[TSIPP]

My logic must be flawed, 30 years ago I almost bought a grain farm but I didn’t because I didn’t like the CWB, the only grain I grew went through a cow.

[TSIPP]

The influence is not dealing with the said company, not atoll.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I see the hutts switched beers also the cans they throw out on the road are now Coors banquet !

I realize my comment is not marketing related and has nothing to do with this topic, but your post reminded me.
In my travels today I saw multiple vehicles or side by sides traveling the highway ditches picking up bottles and cans.
I noticed most of the cat's in the ditch tend to be beer cans. Apparently people still drink and drive, but to destroy the evidence, the chuck the bottles out the window. The law of unintended consequences at work, outlaw drinking and driving, and it increases littering.
And what is the carbon footprint, or net energy gain or loss involved in the entire beverage container recycling process. In this case, someone is burning fossil fuel in there vehicle picking bottles, then more fossil fuel driving those bottles to the depot where they will consume energy sorting and repackaging them, burn more fossil fuel trucking them to the recycling facility, burn more fossil fuel recycling them. How does this actually compare to mining and producing raw aluminum in the first place? Or glass or plastic?

[WiltonRanch]

I realize my comment is not marketing related and has nothing to do with this topic, but your post reminded me.
In my travels today I saw multiple vehicles or side by sides traveling the highway ditches picking up bottles and cans.
I noticed most of the cat's in the ditch tend to be beer cans. Apparently people still drink and drive, but to destroy the evidence, the chuck the bottles out the window. The law of unintended consequences at work, outlaw drinking and driving, and it increases littering.
And what is the carbon footprint, or net energy gain or loss involved in the entire beverage container recycling process. In this case, someone is burning fossil fuel in there vehicle picking bottles, then more fossil fuel driving those bottles to the depot where they will consume energy sorting and repackaging them, burn more fossil fuel trucking them to the recycling facility, burn more fossil fuel recycling them. How does this actually compare to mining and producing raw aluminum in the first place? Or glass or plastic?

Glass is more environmentally friendly and more fun to play “signs”. Who still buys bottles though?

[makar]

I see the hutts switched beers also the cans they throw out on the road are now Coors banquet !

Doubt its the hutts, thats top line beer, i can only dream of drinking it,

[wmoebis]

Does anyone know What Canadian Malt houses sell to Anheuser Busch? Do they even use Canadian Barley?

[foragefarmer]

Glass is more environmentally friendly and more fun to play “signs”. Who still buys bottles though?

Nothing like hitting at sign at 100 clicks with a Lab Light bottle on the side roads on the way to the bush party with a car full of party goers.

Yes, it was totally wrong but, like Archie Bunker would sing "Those were the Days".

[Partners]

Sure would be fun to step and crush that can.

[Robertbarlage]