A-B buys Goose Island for $38 million

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Message beerchugger beers 717 º places 23 º 08:53 Mon 3/28/2011 I have no faith and no hope in InBev/AB. It doesn’t take a Harvard degree to brew good beer with quality ingredients and yet, AB would rather take over a favorite brewery than fight losing sales by providing better beer. I despise InBev/AB. I don’t want to support them, their marketing ploys, or their business models. The craft beer culture is about more than just the beer. It’s about the people and the livelihoods behind the beer. It’s something AB will never understand and therefore, everything they touch gets ruined. Redhook, Widmer, etc...name one good thing AB has done for craft beer other than developing crappy beers to push people into craft beer. This sucks. Sad day indeed.
Message DietPepsican P beers 1592 º places 63 º 08:55 Mon 3/28/2011 Good move on A-B’s part, that price seems like a steal
Message beastiefan2k P beers 5033 º places 294 º 09:00 Mon 3/28/2011 Originally posted by beerchugger I despise InBev/AB. I don’t want to support them, their marketing ploys, or their business models. The craft beer culture is about more than just the beer. It’s about the people and the livelihoods behind the beer. It’s something AB will never understand and therefore, everything they touch gets ruined. agreed

Message ilovedarkbeer beers 2753 º places 122 º 09:01 Mon 3/28/2011 I just saw this. NOOOOOoooOoOOoOooOoO!
Message StFun beers 567 º places 11 º 09:11 Mon 3/28/2011 That’s cool, there’s always Pipeworks.
Message CanIHave4Beers P beers 4375 º places 76 º 09:17 Mon 3/28/2011 Originally posted by StFun That’s cool, there’s always Pipeworks. I hear DaVinci went behind 17th’s back and started shilling out shares to SAB.
Message Davinci beers 295 º places 10 º 09:18 Mon 3/28/2011 Originally posted by CanIHave4Beers Originally posted by StFun That’s cool, there’s always Pipeworks. I hear DaVinci went behind 17th’s back and started shilling out shares to SAB. A man’s gotta eat

Message after4ever P admin beers 8025 º places 322 º 09:18 Mon 3/28/2011 I don’t know too much about what’s happened at Kona since AB bought them. But friends and family have visited, and say there’s no sign of any parent company anywhere on premise. Just a bigger deck, nicer furniture, more signage than in years past. The beers seem the same. For my money, Widmer has gotten more interesting since their purchase--more seasonals and experimentals. They were just OK before, now they’re a little better. Redhook has two shiny, state-of-the-art new breweries since their purchase. Beer seems the same. Biggest change? They have to use some of that mammoth capacity at the new place to help Widmer keep up with keg orders for their hef. Nothing else. AB seems, at least from what you can see from the outside in these three cases, to know how to stay out of the way. If it’s any consolation. Around here, they’ve actually done a fair bit now and then to sink marketing muscle (i.e., cash) into promoting homebrew events and other quiet parts of the craft beer scene. I note that without comment.
Message Christian beers 17420 º places 278 º 09:21 Mon 3/28/2011 Do you drink Hoegaarden? Franziskaner weissbier? Spaten Oktoberfest?
Message joet P admin beers 2900 º places 125 º 09:22 Mon 3/28/2011 I have competing reports about whether Red Hook changed their recipes or not after the AB acquisition. Getting confirmation on how things changed there is relevant. No matter what happens though, for me, it’s what happens in the glass that matters. I couldn’t call myself honest if the brand itself swayed me positively or negatively in my reviews.