Why I will never try Bourbon County Stout...

the big question is the beer the same?, I had 1 beer before inbev. But not after.

I like to know.

 

I'm guessing you drive a car manufactured by a multi-billion dollar company? When you /your kids aren't drinking beer do you actively avoid Coke and Pepsi to drink a local, mom and pop produced soda? Do you never go to McDonalds or Wendys or Burger King? Are you using Verizon /Sprint/AT&T? Large companies are unavoidable in daily life. Boycotting BCBS because a large company will make some money on it? Start walking, drinking well water, using a land line and watching whatever channels you can get with a set of rabbit ears.

 

Based on some of the evidence about the OP that has been posted (eg, reviewing Coors, asking for Killkenny) this has to be a troll thread, right?

So far the OP:

1. Doesn't want to drink BCBS because they're owned by AB-InBev
2. Can find a local beer that taste like BCBS (without knowing what BCBS tastes like)
3. Complains about limited availability of BCBS
4. Says that since AB-InBev has the money they should buy as many barrels as it takes to make BCBS sit on grocery shelves

If this isn't a troll thread, I don't think the OP realizes that BCBS, as well as The Sisters, are still brewed in Chicago. Selling to AB-InBev allowed for Goose Island to yes, "sit on a pile of money", but it also allowed them to stop making beers like Honkers and 312 in house and open up more room for, you guessed it, BCBS.

Also, unless you only buy beer directly from a local craft brewery you are going to be supporting people who work with AB-InBev.

 

And here i thought we were all gonna figure it out and come to a unanimous conclusion this time.

Maybe next week...

 

I didn’t get into specialty beer because of the politics so I have no issue with drinking GI or Hoegaarden for that matter. I don’t avoid large companies elsewhere so I have no issue with buying something from a big company. There are small breweries out there that sell awful beer, make no effort & are into it only to squeeze money from people.

Not everyone is into craft beer because of underlying philosophies or ideals.

 

Quality and taste are king in my mind. If InBev brewed something to rival Pliny, Heady Topper, Julius I would drink it with as much excitement as I do those three.

 

OP, do you shop at Total Wine? Those big-box liquor stores are really putting the strangle-hold on the small independent shops... one might say they are the AB-Inbev of beer and wine retail...

 

I think its one of the most delicious beers ever. So I'll drink it. Maybe not ever again since I'm done trying to hunt down rare beers

 

I can't prove it, of course, but I don't think that was the case when Hermann Schlüter wrote the following in his 1910 classic study The Brewing Industry and the Brewery Workers' Movement in America (pp 69-72):

One of the principal features of the capitalistic development of industry, aside from the displacement of hand labor by machinery, is the concentration of several branches of industry. The small concerns are replaced by large ones, the product of the individual enterprise is increased. The greater these enterprises, the harder it becomes for a new concern to meet the competition of the large ones already in the field…This is clearly illustrated in the development of the brewing industry in the United States…
[snip - several pages of statistics on number of breweries and average yearly barrelage, etc]
Everywhere, then, we see a large decrease in the number of breweries, with a simultaneous growth in the production. Great capitalism had taken entire possession of the brewing industry.​