Anheuser-Busch said it sold a record 20 million barrels of beer during the third quarter, up 3 percent from last year.
Last year, it sold a record 86.5 million barrels of beer, up 7.2 percent from 80.7 million in 1989.
They soon were selling 1,000 barrels a week at $55 a barrel (for a profit of 92 percent).
In 1988, the company sold 78.5 million barrels of beer.
Should the price slump much further, then, the Government might have to sell more than the 12 million barrels to achieve that goal.
During that year, the company sold approximately 500 barrels of their beer.
The Government has sold 28 million barrels in the last two years.
The reserve sold 28 million barrels from 1996 to 1997.
And I sold forty barrels at two dollars per barrel.
It has sold more than two million barrels and is likely to have at least 5 percent of the discount-beer market for the full year.
