Merger Confirmed

**ALERT**7:39pm CSTBeer Business Daily can confirm that the proposed "transaction" between Belgium's Interbrew and Brazil's AmBev is indeed a merger, forming the largest brewery in the world (or the second largest, depending on how you keep score).Just minutes ago, BBD was on the phone with a source in Sao Paulo who said that AmbBev president Victório de Machhi met with the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to talk about the merger. The merger is to be formally