Damn companies and their desire to turn a profit!!! They should just give us beer for free!
About the negative reaction from moving Becks and Bass to the US for production: "AB InBev doesnt see what the fuss is about. Chibe says the company hasnt altered the ingredients of either beer. So why are customers rebelling?"
That's the problem right there. It's pretty common knowledge here that local water, technique, and equipment has a huge impact on the end product, but the people in charge of the largest beer producer in the world have no idea that makes a difference. People are making decisions with no idea whatsoever of how the product they're selling is even made.
Damn companies and their desire to turn a profit!!! They should just give us beer for free!
you think they don't know? they do, they just don't care in the name of profits. As long as it makes'em money, they won't change a thingIt's pretty common knowledge here that local water, technique, and equipment has a huge impact on the end product, but the people in charge of the largest beer producer in the world have no idea that makes a difference. People are making decisions with no idea whatsoever of how the product they're selling is even made.
daksin said:Are we going to seriously imply that the hundreds of professional, career brewers that work for the world's largest most successful brewery aren't going to take water chemistry, malt statistics and hop provenance into account and obsessively analyze fermentation byproducts when trying to replicate an already mass-produced beer? What do you think they DO at AB, brewing identical beer in different cities all across the country?
cval said:you think they don't know? they do, they just don't care in the name of profits. As long as it makes'em money, they won't change a thing
Same goes for Fosters, they moved it from Canada to Texas and some other state and I never tasted a difference. Rev.
AZ_IPA said:I had a Redhook Longhammer and Stone IPA recently and they didn't taste anything like they used to.
InBev isn't the only company that looks at profit margins and tries to cut costs where they can.
sponsoring laws that benefit them and hurt the little guy,
AZ_IPA said:So why are there a post-prohibition record number of breweries in this country?
Disgusting article.
I will seriously boycott anything Inbev.
Evidence that the BMC mindless masses will drink anything as long as it has less flavor and is less filling.
Beef_Supreme said:I'm right there with you, and have been since I watched the documentary "Beer Wars" in 2010. Watching that combined with some good ole google digging resulted in my boycotting of InBev products in 2010. I still won't touch anything made by them or Miller/Coors.
I had a Redhook Longhammer and Stone IPA recently and they didn't taste anything like they used to.
InBev isn't the only company that looks at profit margins and tries to cut costs where they can.
our constitution has always had laws against monopolies.
It was either 2011 or maybe even this year that the craft brew industry sales topped five percent of the overall US beer market.
If the starting point corresponded with, say, the emergence of Samuel Adams Boston Lager on the national scene in 1985 (not saying "cause/effect", just chronology, as there were many hundreds of microbreweries by the end of that decade) it's taken 25 years to get to "5".
While The Bigs are clearly hedging their bets by snapping up some micros, I doubt they have all that much to worry about....
Cheers!
AB/Inbev is first an foremost a corporation, no different that Wal-Mart/Costco/etc, and i'd even compare them to the big pharmaceuticals, in the way of sponsoring laws that benefit them and hurt the little guy, back room deals, buying the competition instead of upping their product. They really are a bug bad company, but no one here should be surprised about that. All businesses want to make money, the difference here is craft breweries also want to make a fantastic product.
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