I don't see a downside here. Sam Adams has always been into craft beer (this isn't ABInBev making a bolt-on acquisition). And say what you will, SA still makes some innovative beers, though they're not the juggernaut they were in the 1980s. This merger is not the case of a non-craft buying a craft. The two companies' products are craft, but complementary--not much overlap. So less chance of beers being phased out or changed due to redundancy. SA is public, though Jim Koch owns 100% of the voting stock (the other stockholders own non-voting common stock), so SA is really run like a closely-held business. It's not the huge conglomerate some make it out to be. It's a 9-figure merger--big money, but not in the league of the huge brewing entities.
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