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| If I could have teleported into Philadelphia for just one event in the Craft Brewers Conference (CBC), it would have been the one where the Brewers Association (BA) addressed the wave of buyouts over the past two years. It sounds like it was every bit as fascinating as I’d hoped. The situation, as you all know, is that the largest and most successful American breweries are ripe for acquisition by bigger international players. And that has happened in dramatic fashion, with nearly 30 sales in the past year and a half. The BA is a trade organization, and was set up to advocate for small brewers. As the most influential members of that organization leave–to the very competition BA has protected its members from–it represents a serious crisis for the organization.
Brewers Association Director Paul Gatza addressed the CBC on Thursday. He did the only thing he can do–parse between the deals that are bad for his membership and those that are (at least for now) relatively benign. Chris Funar … |
Source: Beervana
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