ABI to Acquire SABMiller in 2013?

Dear Client:So say the bankers. "In a global brewing industry marked by huge consolidation over the last decade, bankers are hopeful of an $80 billion plus deal to end all deals between the industry's two giants, Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller," writes Reuters yesterday. The key word here is "hopeful", as bankers are the ones who garner huge fees from such deals. But unlike previous pieces on a possible hookup between these two brewing elephants, this Reuters piece goes a little