Author: Jason Notte
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Industry InsightsA New Year in Beer
December 30, 2017 - Jason Notte If you spent even part of 2017 in line for hazy IPA or waiting for the nation’s larger brewers to make their next acquisitions, you had time to ponder what this year is going to add up to for the beer industry. We can’t know exactly what 2018 will look like for the beer business,... View Article -
Industry InsightsTaking Names: Multi-Brewery Deals Create Confusion
December 5, 2017 - Jason Notte When Microsoft bought LinkedIn last year, the tech giant didn’t disguise itself as Pa Gates’ Craft Technology Works. When Amazon bought Whole Foods this year, it didn’t create a South Lake Union Organics holding company to do so. So why do brewers keep filtering their craft beer acquisitions through smaller, friendlier faces? That question came... View Article -
Industry InsightsThe State of Beer Legislation
September 1, 2017 - Jason Notte Let’s pretend, for a moment, that the biggest problem small brewers face has nothing to do with upside-down bottle seals or beer festival advertisers. The 5,300-plus brewers nationwide that the Brewers Association defines as “craft” don’t need the word “independent” broken into three pieces to serve as a reverse scarlet letter differentiating their beer from... View Article