On August 25, Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors both said they would raise prices this fall.

In June 1966, the US Supreme Court blocked Pabst Brewing Company from acquiring rival Blatz, noting that “if not stopped, this decline in the number of separate competitors and this rise in the share of the market controlled by the larger beer manufacturers are bound to lead to greater and greater concentration of the beer industry into fewer and fewer hands”.

• United States vs. Pabst Brewing Co