In a Brewbound article about the hiring of a new CANarchy CEO (+30 years at AB and a Florida AB Wholesaler - I guess you can find "Canarchy" in all sorts of places) they mention that the group is still interested in buying other breweries with “good people and good brands”:
This seems like one of the better models for how midsize breweries can thrive going forward. I know that I get fresh jai alai and fresher oskar blue's since this arrangement began. And bamburana is a contender for best new to me stout this season.
Just keep making those amazing 15 packs that include G’knight. I was crushing those last winter when they were on sale for $12.99. Enjoy
That may be the case (and I'm not disagreeing with you), but aggressive expansion, aggressive brewery acquisition, private equity involvement, distribution growth, brewing location obfuscation, hard seltzer production, etc are also the sort of things that get a lot of criticism over here when names like AB InBev or Green Flash are attached to them instead.
The thing I like about this model is that it isn't an outside firm acquiring breweries. As far as I understand it it's essentially a VC firm made up of existing breweries. The model seems to be to have a brewery in each major region so that some of the other members' flagships can be made available fresh outside their home region. Then with the LAB acquisition it seems like their goal is to have rotating resident brewers drawn from the various members who will get to experiment and collaborate. I know people might not love it but i think it's neat
I found it at one of our local groceries and also saw it at our best bottle shop. I never checked bevmo or safeway.
CANarchy was created by Fireman Capital Partners of Massachusetts. "(In 2015 Oskar Blues owner) Katechis sold a controlling stake in Oskar Blues to Fireman Capital in Boston."
I have seen mixed 12 packs here that include beers from more than one canarchy brewer. The selections were not what I wanted but I’m always checking them out. Enjoy
I love it when the economy of scale provides enough cost savings to allow these brewers to drop their price without a drop in quality. It’s a win if you’re on a beer budget. I’ll take the $15-16 15 packs over the $10-11 six packs any day.
