Originally Posted by
james
I find big companies like InBev that buy craft breweries don't necessarily make a beer worse then it was before buying the brewery, I just find they often tend not to come out with any new exciting beers anymore which is often a popular thing craft brewers do is always inventing and trying new things, instead they just remake all the beers that have already been made in the passed by the original craft brewer. However big companies like InBev sometimes make a beer more accessible once they take over as they have major distribution in place (especially in Ontario where InBev are 1 of the 3 major players of The Beer Store) and more advertising, but overall new creative beers for the future usually don't happen any more. They focus on increasing sales of old beers rather then inventing. This may not always be the case, but has usually been the case for many breweries InBev has taken over in the passed. I guess it sucks the life out of the spirit of craft beer in a way.
I am not suprissed really that Mill Street was taken over by one of the big brewers as Mill Street was one of the biggest craft brewers in Ontario, but also they made mostly 4%-6% beers, many middle of the road beers, in a sense of they often created beers that was not to adventurous and beers that even a everyday Molson Canadian Drinker might enjoy (tho they did make the odd beer eve as high as 11% barley wine). But overall it made a lot of safe beers that InBev figured was a safe bet, it was obviously going to be taken over eventually, someone said about 2 years ago to me that Molson or InBev was forsure going to buy it eventually and Mill Street is just waiting to cash in on it, well they were right!