It's ABInBev, it wasn't a buyout it was a merger. The point remains the same regardless.

Anybody like stouts?  I'm a big fan of barrel aged stouts like Old Dominion Oak Barrel Stout.

A couple days late, but yes. If you're anywhere near the Pacific Northwest, Oakshire Espresso Stout, Ninkasi Oatis (oatmeal stout) and Rogue Ales Chocolate Stout are all solid recommendations. Oatis is my all-time favourite beer. Not excessively bitter, less alcohol than some stouts - unlike most bolder imperial stouts - and featuring quite possibly the greatest depth and complexity I've experienced in bear, Ninkasi's oatmeal stout is basically genre-defining, as far as I'm concerned.

As is their double IPA.

tl;dr: Ninkasi: 11/10.

now they will brew "budweiser" in other countries for cheaper, and "becks" here for cheaper (and "hoegaarden", and "leffe", and "stella"

Here in UK almost all the "foreign"/"imported" lagers are actually brewed under license in UK.  Judging by the foul results it's usually done using London tap water AKA semi-homeopathic urine and the fermentation performed in filthy old plastic buckets.  It happens to almost all good imported lagers - they establish a name and for a while you get the good stuff and then one day you notice it's pissy and gassy and makes you feel lousy. Check the bottle - it's no longer imported, instead it's brewed under license, usually by Whitbread, purveyor of gut curdling dog's water to the nation.

There are still a few good ones but you have to check the label before you buy just in case.

Luckily proper beer (English ales, bottle or cask conditioned) has been going through a revival over the last couple of decades and most especially in the last few years.  Even some of the cheapest and most unexciting ales are really good (companies get quite good at brewing over many centuries) and even amongst all the new hipster brews with annoying names and bs marketing (hand crafted and so on) there are some really fine ales.  Had a pint of Thirty Three Pale Ale by Brighton Bier the other day - beautiful!  A regular bottled beer for me is Banks's Bitter from Wolverhampton.  It's the cheapest bottled ale in the supermarket and is perfectly decent.  Also love their Sunbeam on tap in the pub.  I guess the water must be good up there in Wolverhampton.  Maybe they have an actual fresh water reservoir instead of recycling piss like here in the south.

Deschutes Black Butte Porter is world class

Deschutes is a great brewery. The bottle conditioning in Black Butte really puts it over the top as the best widely available American porter. King Titus from Maine Brewing Co is great too though.