American Craft Beer Newswire

, 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.

 

, American Craft Beer NewswireBig Brother’s Buying Spree

Big Beer is on a tactical mission to disarm craft beer, an irritating problem that they’ve been losing market to for years. And it appears that they’ve settled on a strategy to co-opt craft beers momentum by buying up some of the competition. But is selling out, truly “selling out” if you’re still crafting great beer? Fortune’s John Kell takes on the good, bad and ugly of this thorny issue in Craft beer’s big dilemma: Hold out or sell out and it’s a provocative read.

Plus you can check out our thoughts on all this in “If You Can’t Beat Them, Buy Them

 

, American Craft Beer NewswireIs Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal A Crazy Thing For Craft Beer?

Kevin Selvy, the CEO of Crazy Mountain Brewing Company in Colorado, thinks that this trade agreement, which was recently negotiated with 11 Pacific nations, will benefit his brewery and the industry – and he joined an Obama administration press call last Wednesday to talk it up. ACB remains undecided, after all we’ve not yet been invited to the White House for consultation. So maybe the Huffington Post’s Craft Beer Stars In New White House Trade Deal Push is as close as anyone’s going to get to understanding this “secreted” issue. And maybe you should read it…

Or you can just read about Pumpkin Beers here and here.

 

, American Craft Beer NewswireDuvel Moortgat’s Simon Thorpe Throws Down

Simon Thorpe is the CEO of Duvel Moortgat USA. You know the company that recently bought into Firestone Walker.  MarketWatch cornered the Belgian-based company’s head in the states and grilled him on their alignment with Ommegang, Boulevard Brewing and now Firestone Walker – and on all the things they’ve got planned for the future.

But MarketWatch didn’t dare ask Mr. Thorpe about this.

 

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