"Craig Bergren" > wrote in message
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> If we take
> into consideration hops, Bud is loses even more All American points
> because not only do they use more grains that didn't originate in the US,
> they use hops that aren't even grown here.

Hops, as far as I know, are not native to either of the Americas at all, so
all beers "lose" on that count.

>
> http://www.realbeer.com/library/rbpm...ail-199710.php
> "The new agreement has A-B buying 8% of the Czech hop harvest over the
> next
> ten years."

And as for that, those Czech hops represent a pretty small proportion of the
hops A-B uses. They have massive hop fields in Idaho (I think it's Idaho -
Lew?) where the overwhelming bulk of their hops originate.

-Steve