Anheuser-Busch Wants to Trademark Your Area Code

• 14103 the corn growers

• Good for Anheuser Busch!  Another stupid article on the part of RFT who will seemingly do anything to attack A-B or attempt to tarnish their name and brand.   Last I checked Anheuser-Busch is a wholly owned subsidiary of InBev that is still "Headquared" right here in St. Louis.  The president, Dave Peacock, was born in Webster Groves and received his MBA Washington University. Anheuser-Busch still employs 1000's of St. Louisans who have worked and fed their families for generations from their brewery salaries.  A-B has made more contributions to the St. Louis community and continues and sponsor virtually every major event and charity in the region.  No other organization, and defintiely no other local brewry can even come close to matching Anheuser-Busch's level of contribution to St. Louis, it's culture and it's history.  So, it's utterly rediculous to keep up these petty attacks in an attempt to sway St. Louisans away from Anheuser-Busch in favor of some of RFT's picks for best local brewry, like Schlafly, which is another outstanding St. Louis product. However, when referencing beers that represent St. Louis on the national and world stage, the beer brands that have world-wide household recognitions are: Budweiser, Busch, Michelob.  As important to the identity of our city as the Gateway Arch, these beer brands are our biggest representatives. Everything else, though they may be good, takes a back seat to A-B in national exposure and local contributions.  Therefore, it seems that it would be our duty and responsibility as St. Louisans to try to represent Anheuser-Busch as well as it and has represented St. Louis... Oh, and... GO CARDS! (The do still play at "BUSCH" Stadium, don't they?)

• Sheesh, stupid mistake on my part. Never ask a gin drinker to write about beer. When's Chad coming back already? PS Thanks for letting us know!

• AB took over Goose Island Brewery.  It makes a beer called "312."  

• Don't you have to prove that you USE a trademark before you can protect it?

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