“Pete Coors and I Started to Talk”

The last Miller Brewing Company distributor convention, which concluded yesterday in New Orleans, was surprisingly upbeat given the cloud hanging over the event; and by that I mean a real rain cloud (it poured down in buckets during the first evening's reception) and a metaphorical cloud in the form of the MillerCoors J-V. Given the Justice Department's aversion to pending mergers jumping the gun before they give their official blessing, little was actually said of the J-V itself. In fact,