Beer Buyouts and Breweries Flexing Their Muscles

If you are on this website, and reading this piece, then it’s no use in going through the growing number of significant buyouts in the craft beer game. ABI (Anheuser-Busch InBev), SABMiller, Constellation Brands, San Miguel, Duvel Moortgat and Heineken have been buying craft breweries for a long time, and there’s absolutely no reason to think that the big boys will stop gobbling up of our favorite brands anytime soon. I’d be surprised if any of us could actually sit down and list all the brands that are actually owned either partially, or fully by the “big guys”. I feel like I don’t go more than a week or two without finding out that a brewery that I thought was completely independent has been working under someone else’s ownership for quite some time.

I’ll be honest in saying that every time I see another brewery “bite the dust” so to speak, I don’t know how to feel. Being that I am in the grind like a lot of you trying to help carve out a piece for some great, smaller breweries I hav

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