A new report from the watchdog group Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE) highlights an alleged foreign monopoly on America’s domestic beer market and its stranglehold on small, independent brewers based in the U.S.

The report, first obtained by the Daily Caller, focuses on global beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev, “the world’s largest brewer.” InBev, a Belgian-Brazilian conglomerate, bought the iconic American company Anheuser-Busch for $52 billion in 2008. It is now headquartered in Belgium and boasts a massive portfolio of beer brands that includes Budweiser and Michelob ULTRA.

“AB InBev stifles the competition to advance its interests by combining sophisticated and well-funded political, lobbying, advertising machines,” CASE states, pointing to the millions spent on federal lobbying efforts and the company’s shift in marketing after the Bud Light boycott triggered by transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

“Its long-running ‘Choose Beer Grown Here’ and ‘Made of America’ marketing campaigns, launched as part of an effort to rebrand in the aftermath of the Mulvaney debacle, have largely obscured the fact that the company’s corporate headquarters are located in Leuven, Belgium, not in middle America like their advertising would have you believe.”

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