Dogfish Head sells 15% to private equity firm

[LuxWanderer]

Why does everyone feel like they need to continue to grow and become these enormous, almost macro, breweries?? American way I suppose.

Get to a size you can manage and are comfortable with, produce amazing beer, people will buy it all, and you will live a happy successful life. Then the price of your beer can come down a bit too because you are trying to pay for any new infrastructure. Win-win.

I love Burton Baton but rarely buy it

 

[SirDickButts]

DFH makes some good and some really good beer. Maybe they're not good enough if we pretend like we militant beer nerds make up more than 10% of the craft beer market.

i don't knock them. i'd pound a bottle of positive contact like water. burton baton and palo santo are good as well.
i hate i didn't get the chance to try their 40oz malt liquor tho....

Why does everyone feel like they need to continue to grow and become these enormous, almost macro, breweries?? American way I suppose.

BENTLEYS, DOM PERIGNON AND *******. GOTTA HAVE IT.

 

[BeerPortfolio]

I think of them as a "gateway" brewery nowadays, whereas 6-7 years ago, in Texas, they were one of the best things we could get on shelves. I can't see how anyone buys their beer nowadays except for newbs just because the quality has risen so much with other breweries (local and regional). DFH hasn't really done anything except the same old thing in their shelf lineup.

I would argue that Dogfish Head still makes some of the best IPAs on the market, quality on Dogfish head beers has never disappointed me.

I also don't think I am a "newb".....

 

[BeerPortfolio]

No way Jose. Greg Koch just stepped down as CEO was a total red flag for me on this front as they are reorganizing into an even larger company.

I am very interested to see what happens with there brewery that they are opening in Germany

 

[lifeuntappd]

I dont think its a bad thing at all. Sell part of the company to get increased capital, bigger distribution, and an ivy league business grad to tell you how to run your business better so you can continue to make strange beers. Win win

 

[user 305778]

Why does everyone feel like they need to continue to grow and become these enormous, almost macro, breweries?? American way I suppose.

Get to a size you can manage and are comfortable with, produce amazing beer, people will buy it all, and you will live a happy successful life. Then the price of your beer can come down a bit too because you are trying to pay for any new infrastructure. Win-win.

I love Burton Baton but rarely buy it

If you do this and max capacity, you get the opposite issue of people bitching and moaning constantly about why don't you expand, why can't you meet demand, you must like having people not being able to find your beer? On and on and on and on. Aka the Russian River problem. In other words, no matter what you do, a subset of people will be annoying dicks about that decision.