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.

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Widmer Brothers Brewing Co.
Grade: C+

My God, what a hiatus!

Life got in the way, as life often does. But no more. No my friends, I have filled the fridge with a selection of new and fresh off the truck releases, and it's back to the grind. I figured that with such a long wait between reviews, I had better make this a good one. So I tried to find the weirdest beer I could find, and ended up with Widmer Brothers Prickly Pear Braggot. What the hell is a braggot? Essentially it's a beer made with a large amount of honey, sometimes up to half of the ingredients, with malted barley making up the rest. It results in a very unique and interesting beer, one that few commercial brewers do well.

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