American Craft Beer Newswire

 

ACB covers craft beer news, entertainment and lifestyle 24/7, and we’d like to think we do a decent job. But there’s a lot of great craft beer journalism out there – and were constantly running into articles that we wished that we’d written.

So welcome to another ACB Newswire – recent articles that we’ve enjoyed – and thought you might as well

 

Another Brick In The Wall

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice gave its approval to the world’s biggest beer merger, paving the way for the eventual melding of Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller. We’re not surprised…we see this mega-merger as inevitable. But the DOJ’s approval didn’t come without important caveats and Fortune addresses those issues brilliantly in Here’s how the World’s Biggest Beer Merger Won U.S. Antritrust Approval.

You can also read what the BA thinks of all this in the Brewers Association Statement on the AB InBev Acquisition of SABMiller

 And you can get our take on Big Beer’s strategy to upend craft beer in – “If You Can’t Beat Them, Buy Them”

 

The Craft Beer Label As Serious Art

Back in the day, beer labels where almost an afterthought – most featured your basic industrial logo and little more. But that’s just another thing that the craft beer industry has changed forever. There’s been an explosion of inventive and original craft beer label designs in the last 10 years and it’s attracting graphic artists from all over the world. Whether on bottles or on cans, a beer’s graphic design can speak volumes and the Creative Bloq crew recently selected 20 brilliant beer label designs that you need to check out.

 

Can Artificial Intelligence Brew The Perfect Beer?

We recently reported on  a UK-based consortium that claims to have developed a computer algorithm that will brew the perfect beer. And from the many comments we received it’s pretty clear that a lot of you thought the idea was total bullshit. But what started out as your basic press announcement, is explained in more depth and detail in Can the Perfect Algorithm Brew the Perfect Beer? And if you approach this article with an open mind, you might just become a believer!