Shocker – American Craft Beer Founder Arrested In Beer Hyping Scandal

After months of rumors and whispered speculation among industry insiders, American Craft Beer’s Founder and Editor-In-Chief, Tom Bobak, was arrested this morning on charges of “beer-hyping” – an unfortunate practice thought to be widespread in craft beer media.

Swept up in a pre-dawn raid, at his Washington, DC home, a handcuffed Bobak exuded an arrogant smugness, as he was led away in swat team-style parade of police cars, to be booked and eventually charged.

Armed with warrants and a fervent desire to put an end to this fraudulent activity, detectives and “forensic beer specialists” spent the day searching the ACB compound for evidence. Several computers were seized, along with boxes of brewery swag and hundreds of promotional bottles of exclusive craft beer releases.

Unnamed sources involved in the investigation, expressed shock at the scope and scale of Bobak’s beer holdings, believed to have been sent by professionals, in an under-the-table effort to secure ACB’s valuable endorsement of some very questionable brews.

“I’m a cheerleader for the industry and can find something to like in most of the beers that I’ve sampled,” Bobak has famously said in the past…But after years of non-stop product glad-handing at the popular “craft beer news, entertainment and lifestyle daily,” public officials had finally had enough…

Today’s actions were seen by many as not only necessary, but inevitable.

Authorities remain cautious and expect this case to be tied up in the courts for years, once ACB’s high-priced legal team get their hands on it.

One unnamed source expressed his concern this way, “Bobak may have acted foolishly and be up to his neck in this beer-hyping scandal…but he’s nobody’s APRIL FOOLS.”