Aside from the archaic nature of beer distribution in the US, it's a pretty reasonable economic principle in all products that when producers start buying up distributors, it's usually not good news for competitors or consumers.
(With a nod to +The Bruce, Mile High and +Stan Pedzick)
The Feds Are Investigating Whether the Maker of Budweiser Is Waging a Secret War on Craft Beer
On Monday, Anheuser-Busch InBev, the globe’s largest brewer and maker of Budweiser, agreed to purchase SABMiller, the globe’s second largest brewer, for a tidy $104 billion. This, of course, is the biggest news in the world of suds right now—a truly massive merger that, if approved, “reshuffles the global beer…
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