As your chart shows, the beer thing only matters at the surface level. Walk in to any major grocery store in the US and all of their 'micro-brews' are owned by AB inBev or Miller. Finding actual local micro-brew that a multi-national doesn't profit from requires going out of your way to find it.
I didn't realize that was the reason I can't buy fucking beer anymore. My go-to beers: - Amstel: Heineken. - Dos Equis: Heineken. - Kirin: Mitsu-fuckin-bishi, y'all - Sapporo: Sapporo. - Sam Adams: Jim Fucking Koch - Weinhard's: Fuckin' AB Inbev since 1999 which is why it tastes like swill now - Negra Modelo: Grupo Modelo Last I checked I can find three of those beers at any given time. One of them is Weinhard's. In LA I drink exclusively Baltika 7 because fuckin' a if you're gonna drink swill, drink $1.50 for a 20oz bottle swill. Which, shit, at least is Carlsberg.