**Alert** AB Buying Bend, Oregon’s 10 Barrel

Dear Client:AB is acquiring eight-year old Bend, Oregon-based brewer 10 Barrel Brewing. In addition to the Bend brewery, the acquisition will include the company's existing brewpubs in Bend and Boise, Idaho; and a Portland brewpub scheduled to open in early 2015.Anheuser-Busch's purchase of 10 Barrel is expected to close by the end of 2014. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.First Beverage Group acted as financial adviser to 10 Barrel, and Spencer Fane Britt & Browne provided legal counsel."For the