A Quick & Easy Guide to Fake Indie (Craft) Beer: BUYER BEWARE
AB is no longer an American company and these are no longer Indie/Craft breweries. Those are FACTS. And when you give them your $$$, you’re selling out your culture.
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RateBeer Joins the Borg Collective: AB Harpoons Another One
AB sunk its tentacles into yet another property designed to do absolutely NOTHING but gain them cred that they cannot earn for themselves and which they now use to weaken and erode the solidarity and spirit of the American Indie Brewing community.
Pub Grub: How Alehouses, Taproom Pubs, and Beer Halls are Becoming McDonalds
The food in most American brewery taprooms, alehouses, pubs, and beer halls is driving me crazy and I suspect, from time to time, it’s done the same to you.
AB/InBev Rams 10 Barrel Down San Diego’s Throat: The Natural Acts of a Bully
AB has been at this for 120 years, folks. They’re betting that younger American beer fans will be just as oblivious a species of douchebag as their forebears.
Another One Bites The Dust: Budweiser Finds Another Sell-Out
These acquisitions are all about Influence. Leverage. Insinuating themselves into a culture which is, at least in LARGE part, a reaction to and rejection of everything AB has stood for.
RANT: “Best American Stouts Made In The USA”? Oy Vey….
Lists are NOTHING but our peculiar American mania for putting two things into a small closet and seeing who’s still breathing when we open the door.
Another Butt-Stupid List…And the REAL “Hidden Gem” Beer Towns
A 35K town with five bad breweries in it belongs on the list of “Waste of Gas and Time”, not in “Hidden Gems”.
“INDIE BEER”: Change is the Best Weapon
From this day forth, what we now call “craft brewing” and “craft beer” will be called “INDIE Beer”, in The Pour Fool.
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