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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 here some recent beer articles that you might want to check out.
Jacob McKean
On Selling Out To Craft Beer
Over the last year Anheuser-Busch InBev has accelerated their craft beer buying spree, which really began back in 2011, when they acquired Chicago-based Goose Island. As we’ve written in the past, the reasons for these major acquisitions are all part of Big Beer’s Strategy To Upend Craft and the backlash in the craft community has been profound.
In an effort to soften consumer resistance, AB–InBev recently put the heads of Golden Road, Breckenridge, and 10 Barrel Brewing on the road to talk about what they see as the advantages of being part of this new family, but many in the biz think their arguments are bullshit. But no one has countered their positions more articulately or persuasively than Modern Times Beer’s Jacob McKean, in What ‘Selling Out’ Is Actually About .
A Two Mile Beer Dream Come True
A crowd-funded $4.5 million beer dream to build a beer pipeline that would carry beer from one of Belgium’s oldest breweries in the center of Bruges to a bottling plant on the city’s outskirts, has become a working reality. And it only took the promise of “free beer for life” to make it happen.
You see, the medieval city of Bruges, a UNESCO World Heritage site, sees millions of visitors annually. And the process of transporting beer from the 500-year-old brewery through a congested network of cobblestone streets, increasingly difficult. And you can read all about in World’s First Beer Pipeline Opens In Belgium.
Is Beer Good For You?
Hey, we’ve all read those articles about the endless health benefits of beer, about how it helps ward off cancers, and strengthens your bones. Never mind that your waist seems to be looking different or that your favorite tee-shirt no longer fits.
But in spite of all those rosy report trumpeting the upside of “power-ponding” beer, this all might be nothing more than wishful drinking. And in the cold light of day, you might land somewhere closer to reality, after reading Is Beer Actually Heathier Than Milk?
