{"id":447,"date":"2008-01-11T08:28:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T15:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/budvar-staying-private-for-now\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T09:34:55","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T16:34:55","slug":"budvar-staying-private-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/budvar-staying-private-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Budvar staying Czech-owned … for now"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are few stories that raise the hair on the back of a good beer geek’s neck as fast as those about the ongoing battles<\/a> between American Bud and Czech Bud.<\/p>\n

Thus Evan Rail’s report<\/a> that the often-rumored privatization of Budejovicky Budvar won’t be happening for at least two more years should produce a few smiles.<\/p>\n

The government still plans to transform the company into a joint-stock company in preparation of future privatization, but will own 100% of the shares. It will be left to the government that emerges after the 2010 elections to decide about privatization.<\/p>\n

I can’t march in lockstep with the “American Bud bad, Czech Bud good” crowd, so maybe I think this is a good news for a different reason. As Rail suggested in one of his first post at the appropriately named Beer Culture<\/a> blog were Budvar privatized then Anheuser-Busch might be the best fit.<\/p>\n

Just look what has happened when classic brands have ended up in the hands of SABMiller and InBev. And make no mistake, if the brewery is sold it will be a brewing conglomerate.<\/p>\n

It’s a Czech beer. It should belong to the Czechs. It’s good news that it’s going to continue that way — at least for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are few stories that raise the hair on the back of a good beer geek’s neck as fast as those about the ongoing battles between American Bud and Czech Bud. Thus Evan Rail’s report that the often-rumored privatization of Budejovicky Budvar won’t be happening for at least two more years should produce a few … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-7d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}