The concept of Budweiser falling into Belgian hands has gone down like a crop of stale hops in the beer's home town of St Louis, where a local songwriter has summed up sentiment in a song called "kiss our glass".
Anheuser-Busch, which owns Budweiser, abandoned its struggle for independence late on Sunday by agreeing to a $52bn takeover by InBev, the firm based near Brussels which is best known for Stella Artois and Bass.
Midwestern politicians had opposed the deal, arguing that it would put local jobs at risk and would allow a slice of American culture to fall into foreign hands.
Phil McClary, an amateur musician from Smithton, near St Louis, puts it bluntly in his song, which equates Bud with apple pie and baseball, bemoaning: "America is not for sale and neither is her beer."
Urging AB to reconsider, he continues "don't sell a slice of the American dream 'cos history won't forget" before returning to his chorus of "have a drink with mother freedom and tell InBev to kiss your glass".
McClary performed his work to a warm reception at an anti-InBev rally over the weekend. He told his local paper: "I have had numerous emails from people who worked at AB telling me the song really summed up what they were feeling."
