The buying and selling of companies is nothing new, but to the craft beer industry it’s a scary and much feared concept. When America’s largest brewery, Anheuser Busch was sold to the Belgian corporation InBev a few years ago, it showed that no one was safe from corporate dollars, not even the biggest of the “big boys.” Until recently craft beer has been very much under the radar of larger investment firms, taking up less than 5% of the total market share. But since the craft beer boom began a few years ago, the pace of craft beer growth has caused many of these brewers to grow up a little too fast.
