AB just bought Elysian, thoughts?

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Message Cliff beers 355 º places 72 º 14:28 Mon 4/13/2015 Originally posted by CharmCityCrab Don’t expect painted bottles, the original illustration of a picket fence, or beer brewed in glass-lined tanks with water from the original area using the same recipe as was used pre-buyout... Signed, Bitter Rolling Rock drinker Shortest CCC post ever!
Message Reid beers 3533 º places 95 º 13:34 Tue 4/14/2015 Originally posted by beastiefan2k Originally posted by Prufrockstar Dick Cantwell resigns from AB/Elysian: http://www.washingtonbeerblog.com/dick-cantwell-resigns-from-anheuserbusch-elysian/ Damn you. I was just about to start a new thread titled: "No More Dick @ Anheuser-Busch" or something equally childish. Steve Luke now Dick. Must be sad for Dick but i sort of guessed he wouldn’t be able to take the corporate BS too long judging by his original statements after the take over. I will give it a year before the beer starts to suffer.
Message Reid beers 3533 º places 95 º 13:46 Tue 4/14/2015 I went to their facebook page weeks ago it was full of negative comments ( and nice ones)..not very much anymore..nothing hardly any comments. Weird.

Message after4ever P admin beers 8025 º places 322 º 14:34 Tue 4/14/2015 They won’t be cutting costs at Elysian. That’s not why they bought them. Doesn’t make me any happier, but that’s just not the model here at all. I know people think it happened with GI, but GI was opening a bigger facility anyway, and that’s what changed things. Steve Luke was already leaving a long time ago. He is too good to be just an employee anywhere. He already had plans in the works for Cloudburst loooong before the takeover. He just hadn’t announced it publicly yet. Can’t wait for his beers.
Message beastiefan2k P beers 5012 º places 294 º 02:56 Wed 7/1/2015 I was surprised when I read this: Elysian co-founder Cantwell went to a Super Bowl party and found the ad harder to shrug off. “We were watching the game over in my little living room,” says Steve Luke, a brewer at Elysian. “That commercial came on, and you could hear a pin drop afterwards. It was not good.” Soon after, Cantwell tendered his resignation. “ Get more here http://seattlebeernews.com/2015/06/can-craft-beer-survive-ab-inbev-the-answer-is-yes/
Message Reid beers 3533 º places 95 º 04:43 Wed 7/1/2015 Originally posted by beastiefan2k I was surprised when I read this: Elysian co-founder Cantwell went to a Super Bowl party and found the ad harder to shrug off. “We were watching the game over in my little living room,” says Steve Luke, a brewer at Elysian. “That commercial came on, and you could hear a pin drop afterwards. It was not good.” Soon after, Cantwell tendered his resignation. “ Get more here http://seattlebeernews.com/2015/06/can-craft-beer-survive-ab-inbev-the-answer-is-yes/ God i hate those b*stards..sneaky slime bags
Message beastiefan2k P beers 5012 º places 294 º 13:43 Thu 7/23/2015 the story that wont die Dick joins the Brewers Association http://www.washingtonbeerblog.com/dick-cantwell-named-quality-ambassadress-for-brewers-association/

Message obguthr beers 11696 º places 22 º 18:38 Thu 7/23/2015 Originally posted by beastiefan2k the story that wont die Dick joins the Brewers Association http://www.washingtonbeerblog.com/dick-cantwell-named-quality-ambassadress-for-brewers-association/ Six months and still getting bumped.
Message DietPepsican P beers 1592 º places 63 º 18:47 Thu 7/23/2015 6 months this thread is getting pretty cold...
Message michcam8 beers 593 º places 34 º 18:59 Thu 7/23/2015 reid - any thoughts on this new development?