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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-10T04:01:45.000Z",
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  "textContent": "The smell of fresh cut grass wafts on the spring breeze. March Madness is over, baseball season has just begun. How many Major League stadiums have adopted Anheuser-Busch InBev’s daft rebrand of “domestic beer” this year? If you don’t call it “American beer” you’re woke and communist and probably don’t even Respect The Troops™. For shame!!! Ahem. Where was I? Oh, right. As American taxpayers prepare once again to tithe at the imperial altar of blood, so too must American brewers tithe at the editorial altar of Hop Take.\n\nThe article All This M&A Can’t Save the Beer Industry, but It Can Definitely Mess It Up More appeared first on VinePair.",
  "title": "All This M&A Can’t Save the Beer Industry, but It Can Definitely Mess It Up More"
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