Says it all really
âEvery scaling company tries to control every type of stuff that costs money in their branch of industry. Does this really mean theyâre trying to control stuff that costs money in their branch of industry?â
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Thatâs a matter of opinion. But how can it be âgoodâ for craft beer that they have less access to industry supplies, because AB Inbev is controlling more and more? You didnât just say âthis is competitionâ, you said they are âgoodâ, which is a whole other level.
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Well, in Switzerland itâs at least not ABInbev, just Heineken and Carlsberg dominating the scene⊠But yes, big beer destroyed the Swiss beer scene in the '80s and '90s. Having no traditional home brew culture either, Switzerland is still lacking behind in quality craft, with only a few exceptions. We might have the most breweries per capita, but also an unusual amount of crappy âcraftâ.
He used the wrong analogy, hereâs a better one:
A dog, a woman, a walnut tree - the more you beat them, the better they be.
Clear now?
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compare and contrast:
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Did you even read the article in which it pretty much states that AB In-Bev have a monopoly on those hops? Talk about confirmation biasâŠ
But I suppose monopolies are good for business, right?
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âWe can share some of our hops because we hoarded and played the same game the big boys play but donât call us not craft because weâre so craft and independentâ
Doesnât make AB-Inbev right, but BBC is the same which is to Joeâs point.
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Or BBC bought them before AB or Molson could.
So stop the stock market from selling and buying commodity futures. I think the world would be a better place if we didnât have jackasses betting on food in front of a computer.
Et tu, Julien?
Samâs is a big brewery compared to most craft brewers but not compared to ABRatebeer or Molson or Asahi etc. They cant, and havent engaged in anti-competitive practices like the big players, at least not in the same sort of way amd scale.
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Who are you quoting there, is this some messed up internal voice - did you forget to take your lithium? Youâre certainly not quoting the article, and in fact it looks like you didnât even read the article.
I can see the 
button to upvote posts, but whereâs the :troll: button to down-vote ignorant ones like yours?
Dude chill. If youâre aggravated enough by my comments to come out blasting insults like a child thereâs a report function in the forums.
@jk and FatPhil. I said above and I still believe @joet is drowning in the koolaid. Iâm just stating the part I agree with is that
a) craft beer is now big business. Is it as big as AB-Inbev? No, of course not. But itâs now up there (a quick google search tells me BBC produces enough beer to be something like the 36th largest brewery on the planet at 6M Hectoliters/year not to mention other âcraftâ breweries like Schneider )
b) big business doesnât care about feelings, only money. The line is blurred within craft now because buying a 12 pack of Sam Adams is much more like buying a 12 pack of MolsonCoors than it is like buying a growler of something out of the back of some dudeâs barn.
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Just incredible how one can get ignorant just to defend evil empire. Hope you get paid for this.
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Cool, I hope you enjoy sipping your Sam Adams?
You guys need to stop writing âBBCâ: that confuses me so much!
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No I donât drink SA. We donât get that shit over here. Wouldnât if we did. But I have respect for Jim Koch and SA. One of reasons is this quote from Audacity of Hops. The guys basicially did just the opposite of what AbInbev was trying and still is trying to do.
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#PAWG !
For which I get the prompt which stops me from posting ⊠âBody seems unclear, is it a complete sentence?â
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Still waiting on your reply to this, Eugene. ( Unless you canât be bothered, which I understand)
