{"id":128301,"date":"2015-10-13T20:04:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T02:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/all-your-beer-distributor-is-belong-to-us.html"},"modified":"2015-10-14T07:53:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T13:53:42","slug":"all-your-beer-distributor-is-belong-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/all-your-beer-distributor-is-belong-to-us.html","title":{"rendered":"All Your Beer Distributor Is Belong To Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the archaic nature of beer distribution in the US, it&#39;s a pretty reasonable economic principle in all products that when producers start buying up distributors, it&#39;s usually not good news for competitors or consumers.<\/p>\n<p>(With a nod to <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/118155570755046436520\" oid=\"118155570755046436520\">The Bruce, Mile High<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/109916779695016690032\" oid=\"109916779695016690032\">Stan Pedzick<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/moneybox\/2015\/10\/13\/ab_inbev_is_being_investigated_over_antitrust_allegations_involving_craft.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/cSI7Bo0fQfOkP4gL-hBIv77S4sYklftgU5oF6R1xsmqCSXNP-6AOJkA1dDqZvt3npSRtB9gbzZF_m6QPhMbGyBXj6gk_AUkrQtlotEWcgetu0Yyya6AW-leBs3jYI0WpumXHFjGOiWxelTDom7dgMn78D8ijD9VWKHvogGAInKOKsUOHUt4f_iyHn4a1DY5BjJjepoQ-s6Lx5O4J29UAxufrOwul9onQlNgatx01R-jYpDEUmu8joZQ-O9c2l71wHhu_ckJq6uR6HFPe1ntwzaQ0H4C31BnJ1JtkWMo0JHe-BDMPT2Ibe15HxSyz4gNlM5eCzhE9lFsgRPoLUOuqzk_YFotl6C80BvRh5ipCEOpz=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/moneybox\/2015\/10\/13\/ab_inbev_is_being_investigated_over_antitrust_allegations_involving_craft.html'>The Feds Are Investigating Whether the Maker of Budweiser Is Waging a Secret War on Craft Beer<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nOn Monday, Anheuser-Busch InBev, the globe&#8217;s largest brewer and maker of Budweiser, agreed to purchase SABMiller, the globe&#8217;s second largest brewer, for a tidy $104 billion. This, of course, is the biggest news in the world of suds right now&mdash;a truly massive merger that, if approved, &#8220;reshuffles the global beer&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/JKbyipce1de'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the archaic nature of beer distribution in the US, it&#39;s a pretty reasonable economic principle in all products that when producers start buying up distributors, it&#39;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/all-your-beer-distributor-is-belong-to-us.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All Your Beer Distributor Is Belong To Us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-food-drink-wine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18487,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/10\/oh-its-beer-beer-beer-that-makes-you-want-to-cheer.html","url_meta":{"origin":128301,"position":0},"title":"Oh, it&#8217;s beer, beer, beer, that makes you want to cheer &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 10-Sep-10 3:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Tomorrow we're having a \"Beer Fest\" at the Consortium, in lieu of going to Brew at the Zoo or the Great American Beer Festival. \u00a0Not sure how many we'll be, but there will be Interesting Beers to be had. 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