MillerCoors buys another craft brewery

InTenSity wrote:Dammit! Hopsecutioner was a good beer, too. I liked Terrapin. I think DFH is in it for the long haul, they've probably been approached multiple times already. Ballast Point was also bought.

tGreenWay wrote:

InTenSity wrote:Dammit! Hopsecutioner was a good beer, too. I liked Terrapin. I think DFH is in it for the long haul, they've probably been approached multiple times already. Ballast Point was also bought.

Hope you're right about DFH. Hadn't heard about Ballast Point.

Death Roe wrote:Is Bell's partially owned by a major brewing company? Couldn't find it on their wiki.

tGreenWay wrote:

Death Roe wrote:Is Bell's partially owned by a major brewing company? Couldn't find it on their wiki.

That's Founder's. Modelo owns something like 49% now.

Death Roe wrote:I know Founder's, but I thought Bell's got into bidness with some BIG BEER company.

Death Roe wrote:I know Founder's, but I thought Bell's got into bidness with some BIG BEER company.

InTenSity wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:

Hope you're right about DFH. Hadn't heard about Ballast Point.

Ballast Point sells for $1 billion I'd fucking sell too. Holy shit, didn't realize they got that much until I googled it. Then again it was bought by the company that owns Corona.

tGreenWay wrote:i dread the day the Michigan beers start getting bought up. I know it's already happened to Founder's, but it's probably only a matter of time before others fall.

Floyd Robertson wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:i dread the day the Michigan beers start getting bought up. I know it's already happened to Founder's, but it's probably only a matter of time before others fall.

Like I said in another thread, fuck mergers and acquisitions. Great for the sellers, generally terrible for consumers.

Floyd Robertson wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:i dread the day the Michigan beers start getting bought up. I know it's already happened to Founder's, but it's probably only a matter of time before others fall.

Like I said in another thread, fuck mergers and acquisitions. Great for the sellers, generally terrible for consumers.

tGreenWay wrote:

Floyd Robertson wrote:

Like I said in another thread, fuck mergers and acquisitions. Great for the sellers, generally terrible for consumers.

If some corporation approaches you offering to acquire and merge with you, I hope you're strong enough to walk away from the deal. A corporate Floyd just won't be the same for us.

tGreenWay wrote:

Floyd Robertson wrote:

Like I said in another thread, fuck mergers and acquisitions. Great for the sellers, generally terrible for consumers.

If some corporation approaches you offering to acquire and merge with you, I hope you're strong enough to walk away from the deal. A corporate Floyd just won't be the same for us.

tGreenWay wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:

The company that owns a part of Founders has little to no US distribution.

Think Bells is still flying solo.
Just Larry Bell, his investors and the bank(s).

That's Founder's. Modelo owns something like 49% now.

I was wrong about Modelo and the percentage of ownership. The company Mahou-San Miguel bought a 30% stake, per Wikipedia.

tGreenWay wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:

That's Founder's. Modelo owns something like 49% now.  

I was wrong about Modelo and the percentage of ownership. The company Mahou-San Miguel bought a 30% stake, per Wikipedia.

InTenSity wrote:Well at least the big guys aren't using the Microsoft 90's business model. Buy em up and shut em down.

By-Tor wrote:

InTenSity wrote:Well at least the big guys aren't using the Microsoft 90's business model. Buy em up and shut em down.

Seems like the big boys are buying them up and increasing distribution channels. I for one and am very pleased that I can now buy Ballast Point and Deschutes at my local Kroger here in Michigan. That was not possible before those heavyweight breweries cashed in. Hopefully the recipes and quality stay the same as micro breweries get bought up.

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Ty you botched that post like michigans punter bro. Like you didn't even address WHY people dislike the mergers. Just went on an irrelevant rant.

tTy wrote:

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Ty you botched that post like michigans punter bro. Like you didn't even address WHY people dislike the mergers. Just went on an irrelevant rant.

You got it backwards, bro.  If you fucking anti-establishment types were so fucking cool = make your own fucking beer and shut the fuck up.  That is my point.  Otherwise, I don't want to hear a single one of  you fucking cry babies cry.

The point of this thread is that you are all pissy because the little guy isn't making your beer for you anymore, but that the big boy is..  Well, get off your ass, buy a bucket, some malt, some yeast, some hops, some bottles, some form of refrigeration and fucking do it yourself if that is what makes your fucking twigs and berries tingle.  I've made my own beer for years, and years, and years.  Probably for longer than dipshit idiots like you have been alive.  How could I possibly be missing the point of this thread?

Do it yourself, or shut the fuck up.  That is my point.  Nobody is going to do shit for you, you god damn idiots.  But then when they do, and you buy it and pay for it anyway, you get all pissed because it isn't the right way and you get all pissy.  Jesus.  This generation of ingrates is insufferable.

InTenSity wrote:Here is my point. When I hear that breweries are bought up by the bigger guys, I don't want to support a business that is no longer wholly US owned. Miller, Bud, are no longer owned by Americans. Even if the beer stays the same, the profit is going out. So I switch to a different brand and make due. I don't go crusading that to everyone, but it is a choice I make. Kind of like how I won't do business at a BP gas station, unless I'm about to run out and there are no other choices.

tTy wrote:

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Ty you botched that post like michigans punter bro. Like you didn't even address WHY people dislike the mergers. Just went on an irrelevant rant.

You got it backwards, bro.  If you fucking anti-establishment types were so fucking cool = make your own fucking beer and shut the fuck up.  That is my point.  Otherwise, I don't want to hear a single one of  you fucking cry babies cry.

The point of this thread is that you are all pissy because the little guy isn't making your beer for you anymore, but that the big boy is..  Well, get off your ass, buy a bucket, some malt, some yeast, some hops, some bottles, some form of refrigeration and fucking do it yourself if that is what makes your fucking twigs and berries tingle.  I've made my own beer for years, and years, and years.  Probably for longer than dipshit idiots like you have been alive.  How could I possibly be missing the point of this thread?

Do it yourself, or shut the fuck up.  That is my point.  Nobody is going to do shit for you, you god damn idiots.  But then when they do, and you buy it and pay for it anyway, you get all pissed because it isn't the right way and you get all pissy.  Jesus.  This generation of ingrates is insufferable.