Bitter beer face

Gulp it down: Still seeking a answer to the challenge of local craft breweries, which now represent about 10 percent of the market, the world’s largest beer maker, Anheuser Busch InBev, is attempting to take over its next-largest rival, SAB Miller. The megabrewer would control a third of the global market.

The global giants should stop trying to buy up small brewers. Both should sell off their brands and do what they do best: Make beer commercials.

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Cover up: Playboy, a staple in the nude centerfold (sorry) industry since 1953, is dropping the photo spreads of fully nude women from its magazine but keeping its fiction and legitimate journalism. Hugh Hefner, the magazine’s 89-year-old founder has signed off on the deal.

Times have changed and so should Playboy’s print magazine, Hef said, who admits he surfs the Internet, but only for the porn.

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Val’s tending bar: Still having made no announcement about whether he’ll run for president, Vice President Joe Biden did not participate in Tuesday night’s Democratic debate in Las Vegas. A Draft Biden ad was scheduled to run before the event on CNN.

Biden, watching from his Washington, D.C., residence, saw the ad, and finally feeling persuaded, went to a nearby bar and ordered a local draft beer.

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