A recent article in Axios, Big beer is drinking up craft brewers, called attention to the problem of UK brewers getting bought up by Big Beer. In response to the latest purchase, of London Fields by the international brewhemoth Carlsberg Group, the United Kingdom’s Society of Independent Brewers asked that: Continue reading
Modern Times, one of the fastest growing breweries in the country, recently announced that they had sold a 30% stake in the company to their employees, with the eventual goal of the company being 100% employee-owned. Read MT’s announcement.
CEO and founder Jacob McKean sums up the importance of this move: Continue reading
The folks over at Beer Advocate just published another great piece about why sell-out breweries (which they call “zombie” beer brands) are bad for craft beer. Read the article here. Continue reading
AB InBev’s “High End” just released a video in response to the Brewers Association’s new Independent logo. Watch it here. Read a full transcript here. Read background on the Independent logo here. Continue reading
Today the Brewer’s Association announced that they will be launching a new bottle label to help consumers identify truly Craft beer. The label will be free to use, and will be licensed only to breweries that meet the BA’s definition of a craft brewery.
This could be a game-changer. Best-case scenario, this labeling campaign makes this website obsolete.
Read more details in the BA’s announcement. Even more details are in their press release.
Paste magazine recently ran a fantastic article titled The BS Arguments of Craft Beer Sell-Outs: How Brewery Buyouts Hurt Craft Beer. This article debunks the most common rationalizations for selling out to Big Beer that are often given by formerly craft brewers (and their fans). This article is a great read, packed with many detailed examples and points, and I strongly recommend you read it in its entirety. Just in case, though, here’s the TLDR: Continue reading
This month’s Beer Advocate starts with a really great blurb about why this whole “craft” vs. “crafty” distinction is important: Continue reading
In a scathing statement on the Dogfish Head website, industry icon Sam Calagione responded to the purchase of RateBeer by AB Inbev. Continue reading
In a statement on their website, RateBeer confirmed that it had indeed sold a minority stake to ZX Ventures, AB InBev’s “growth” division.
Of immediate and obvious concern is whether the site can continue to give unbiased Continue reading
As part of the craft brewing industry’s fierce reaction to the sale of Wicked Weed to AB Inbev, a growing list of craft brewers announced that they would not be attending WW’s Continue reading