When you take your beer seriously ...

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

A St. Louis man was shot to death Sunday night over a warm beer, police said.

St. Louis police say a woman shot her husband, who was about 70 years old, four to five times in the chest after he tried giving her a warm can of Stag beer.

Police said the wife admitted shooting him about 5:40 p.m. in the kitchen of their home in the 5100 block of Terry Avenue. Police said the home had no electricity at the time.

Homicide detectives would not identify the man. The woman, whom police also did not identify, was taken into custody.

Well, the beer was warm. And while first blizzard of Winter 06-07 has knocked out power to hundreds of thousands in the St. Louis area, anyone should be able to figure out how to keep the suds cool. However, we do not wish to be judgmental in the matter, so it is entirely possible he was trying to do his wife a good turn by giving her something warm to drink.

But Stag?

It is a Miller product. Perhaps the wife was a partisan of hometown Annheiser-Busch. Is it possible that the disagreement over brands was brewing beneath the surface, only to bubble up into deadly violence at a time of great personal stress?