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I should be ok with INBev buying up as many craft breweries as possible?
Nobody's holding a gun to their heads and saying they have to sell.
I should be ok with INBev buying up as many craft breweries as possible?
Nobody's holding a gun to their heads and saying they have to sell.
You said InBev is using tactics that are detrimental to small brewers.
Well, small brewers are also using tactics that are detrimental to small brewers.
Okay for one, but not the other?
Nobody's holding a gun to their heads and saying they have to sell.
When one tactic is meant to be to the detriment of thousands of little guys in order to make a conglomerate more profitable, and the other tactic is meant to protect one brewery's intellectual property rights, then yes: It's ok for the one and not the other. At least in my book.
But again, I don't know enough about those lawsuits in question to be able to comment much further than that. I'll concede that Stone is quite big and such a lawsuit could be considered frivolous. I just don't know.
Interestingly a new brewery is in the process of opening in my neighborhood called Bryn Mawr Brewing company. It's been a long process that began a year ago. A few weeks ago they received a cease and desert letter from a winery in Portland who uses the name Bryn Mawr. There was a big deal made about how these issues are typical dealt with in the craft beer industry without resorting to lawsuits. But the winery wouldn't relent and now Bryn Mawr Brewing Co has another name.
Why shouldn't/aren't you?
Haven't they earned the right?
Listen: there is a difference between what their rights are and what my preferences are. Stop making assumptions about what I'm saying and read what I'm actually writing here.
The argument is that what they are doing is not good for the craft beer business overall. I've not once mentioned that they shouldn't be allowed to do it. I also have not once offered an opinion about whether any such craft breweries should have their pay day.
Nobody's holding a gun to their heads and saying they have to sell.
And furthermore, none of these breweries are in any particular bind that would force them sell. IIRC. So it's not like ABInbev is feeding itself off the weakest of the herd.
Interestingly a new brewery is in the process of opening in my neighborhood called Bryn Mawr Brewing company.
I don't think AB want the struggling brewery. They want the profitable ones.
Good for them getting a big payday. That's capitalism; not necessarily good for beer though.
Good for them getting a big payday. That's capitalism; not necessarily good for beer though.
Oh I read exactly what you are writing. You are irrationally discriminating against one entity because they have a highly successful business model driven solely by consumer choice. And that would make perfect sense IF ABInbev were buying the brands for the sole purpose of sending them off to the oblivion to minimize variety...
but they aren't.
Not necessarily bad either.
I am discriminating in the sense of making a choice about who's beer I choose to buy. Just like every other consumer. But you clearly don't get my reasons why. It has nothing to do with their business model, it has to do with their tactics that I believe what l have a negative effect on an industry I care about. You think it's irrational? Oh well. I've laid out my reasons which I think are quite rational.
I for one welcome our ABInbev overlords.
Anybody know what typically happens to the investors/founders/key people when In-bev buys their company?
I can envision a scenario where some of these people get rich instantly and spin out into the craft beer industry advising companies, investing into new start-up breweries, trade organizations, and/or sitting on boards.
Not sure this happens, but if it does its certainly would be multiplier effect benefit to the industry.
Definitely. But it can not generate 12.2 billion in annual revenue of a sub-par product..
I forget which company but the former owner of a company just bought out by Bud.....that was insulted by Bud in its superbowl commercial last year, said something like "It adds insult for a sale that I didn't want to do in the first place."
This leads me to beleive that Bud approached them, said "here's our offer, turn it down and every distributor you use will stop carrying your product because they are in our pockets."........it pretty much really IS holding a gun to their heads.
@ the guy whom said something to the effect of "Nobodys holding a gun to their head to make them sell to AB?INBEV"
I forget which company but the former owner of a company just bought out by Bud.....that was insulted by Bud in its superbowl commercial last year, said something like "It adds insult for a sale that I didn't want to do in the first place."
This leads me to beleive that Bud approached them, said "here's our offer, turn it down and every distributor you use will stop carrying your product because they are in our pockets."........it pretty much really IS holding a gun to their heads.
@ the guy whom said something to the effect of "Nobodys holding a gun to their head to make them sell to AB?INBEV"
I forget which company but the former owner of a company just bought out by Bud.....that was insulted by Bud in its superbowl commercial last year, said something like "It adds insult for a sale that I didn't want to do in the first place."
This leads me to beleive that Bud approached them, said "here's our offer, turn it down and every distributor you use will stop carrying your product because they are in our pockets."........it pretty much really IS holding a gun to their heads.
You can keep loving on AB/INBEV all you want but IMHO it's flat out stupid to call other people irrational for disliking their practices in the business world.
You can keep loving on AB/INBEV all you want but IMHO it's flat out stupid to call other people irrational for disliking their practices in the business world.
Not trying to create an argument, just wanted to post what I found on the web. I have repeatedly said ABs primary business (just like any other shareholder business) is to make money, and not beer, and that beer is just the vehicle they use to do it, and I have taken a lot of flak for it.
A quote from the CEO (Carlos Brito), "We say our dream is to be the best beer company in a better world," he told a Stanford Graduate School of Business class in 2008, during one of several returns to the academic center where he earned his MBA, "And that's measured by profitability"
The goal is to be the beer company that makes the most money, not the best beer.
Who said they are in the market to make the best beer? Umm, no-one.
I specifically said they are not maximizing profits by cutting corners and reducing the quality of their products. Why you don't understand supply chain brokering? They don't settle for lower quality malt, they negotiate a lower price on the malt they've been buying. Thus, maximizing their profits and/or lowering their prices to increase consumer appeal.
So you think it's NOT irrational to accept the behavior from any brewery other than ABInbev?
I forget which company but the former owner of a company just bought out by Bud.....that was insulted by Bud in its superbowl commercial last year, said something like "It adds insult for a sale that I didn't want to do in the first place."
This leads me to beleive that Bud approached them, said "here's our offer, turn it down and every distributor you use will stop carrying your product because they are in our pockets."
AB is more concerned about profits vs quality beer.
@ the guy whom said something to the effect of "Nobodys holding a gun to their head to make them sell to AB?INBEV"
I forget which company but the former owner of a company just bought out by Bud.....that was insulted by Bud in its superbowl commercial last year, said something like "It adds insult for a sale that I didn't want to do in the first place."
This leads me to beleive that Bud approached them, said "here's our offer, turn it down and every distributor you use will stop carrying your product because they are in our pockets."........it pretty much really IS holding a gun to their heads.
You're probably talking about Elysian Brewing and one of the founders/owners Dick Cantwell. He was, I believe, out voted by the other owners to sell out to AB Inbev and has since resigned from the company.
http://www.brewbound.com/news/elysians-dick-cantwell-resigns-from-a-b-inbev
I was about to tell those crybabys to "Look it up yourself. It's not my responsibility to provide you with links."
But thankfully somebody had a clue as to what i was talking about.
Thanks for clarifying the sale.
Oh....Did i say that?
Oh....that's right, I DIDN'T
Don't try to `put words into my mouth
I was about to tell those crybabys to "Look it up yourself. It's not my responsibility to provide you with links."
But thankfully somebody had a clue as to what i was talking about.
Thanks for clarifying the sale.
As Calder mentions above, as several before him, AB is more concerned about profits vs quality beer. If you refuse to accept that as fact then by all means, keep drinking your Budweiser. Nobody is trying to stop you from it.
But for those whom preffer a company to actually offer something other than a light American lager on their beer menu beyond a light American lager mixed with imitation lime juice,( read actual quality beer ) don't assume they are being irrational for disliking a company whom buys out actual craft brewery to then insult them publicly. AB insulted homebrewers in a superbowl commercial i beleive just the year previous But `hey....go on and countinue to endlessly supply the company that mocks you and your trade with money from beer sales.
Wait, InBev only make light American lagers and fruit flavored lagers?
What about all those microbreweries they're buying up? They quit making BCBS and all those IPA's?
They're sacrificing the quality of those beers and just concentrating on profit! I've noticed a significant decrease in quality in BCBS since AB took over. It is now one of the worst bourbon barrel stouts and the price has quadrupled from what it was before the takeover.
The placebo effect of EAC beer snobs is in full effect!
They're sacrificing the quality of those beers and just concentrating on profit! I've noticed a significant decrease in quality in BCBS since AB took over. It is now one of the worst bourbon barrel stouts and the price has quadrupled from what it was before the takeover.
It is now one of the worst bourbon barrel stouts and the price has quadrupled from what it was before the takeover.
Hey! No need to toss insults just because you choose to ignore the truth!
I thought this year was fine. Craft beer is popular. Supply and demand in effect, not some grand conspiracy.
Well, you are in luck! There is another brewery that has been making that stuff since 1957. Naturally brewed is their motto. They also distribute it in 1 gallon sizes for about $11.
The funny thing is, of course, that Bud, Bud Light, etc. are about the only beers that taste the same over and over and over....
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is different this year than it was last year. That's just the nature of ag products that do vary year to year.
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is different this year than it was last year. That's just the nature of ag products that do vary year to year.
How can you be sure?
Brewing is as much art as science, and all beer specifications and raw materials are subject to change at our brewers' creative discretion.
I drink a lot of it, and unlike seasonal releases where it's not really possible to reliably say "this beer is different than a year ago" (even though it always is), you can taste differences over time.
Oh, and their website says so:
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