Arguing that the downfall of Anheuser-Busch doesn't matter

In Salon, Edward McClelland argues that Americans who lament the demise of an independent Anheuser-Busch make too much of a non-event. A-B's success was "a triumph of marketing over quality"--not that the regional beers that it crushed were any better. McClelland notes that A-B was inept at entering the quasi-craft beer market. Under its control, Red Hook flopped. Miller did well with its version of a craft beer, Leinenkugel. (Although McClelland doesn't mention it, Coors did even better with its entry into the craft beer market, Blue Moon.)