Five Reasons to Have an Independent Craft Brewery Tasting
With Anheuser-Busch InBev just having bought Platform Brewing in Ohio and with Dogfish Head and Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams) "merging" a few months ago to keep from going the Platform route, we've been thinking about the growing reality in craft beer conglomeration.
Though the American Craft Beer Revolution started with a feeling of small, independent brewers standing for producing beers of quality and taste impossibly in the face of mass market giants, now craft beer is a growing, international business.
At the same time that the giants are putting out ads attacking the craft beer phenomenon and its fans, they're buying up craft breweries to regain some of their lost market share. At the same time, new giants are forming within the craft beer world itself.
In five to ten years, it might be difficult to find an unaffiliated craft brewery. So we thought now would be a good time to celebrate some breweries that remain non-bought and non-merged.
Most importantly, the beers that these guys make are good.
Beers to be Tasted
Great Lakes Eliot Ness Amber Lager
DuClaw Dirty Little Freak
Sierra Nevada Hop Bullet
Ninkasi Prismatic
Flying Dog Double Dog
Maine Mean Old Tom