{"id":34478,"date":"2016-03-30T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34478"},"modified":"2016-03-29T13:01:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T17:01:55","slug":"craft-brewers-that-are-actually-owned-by-big-breweries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/03\/30\/craft-brewers-that-are-actually-owned-by-big-breweries\/","title":{"rendered":"“Craft” brewers that are actually owned by big breweries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Allyn<\/a> lists quite a number of craft breweries in the United States that are no longer independent or were never independent of the big brewing corporations:<\/p>\n

It matters who owns your beer, says Carol Stoudt, founder of Stoudt’s Brewing, “The passion is lost when the people running a brewery don’t have ownership, and then quality suffers.” A bigger concern, one echoed by brewers like Stoudt and Dogfish Head’s Sam Calagione is that the larger companies also have the power to manipulate markets. The chief example, one cited by Calagione, is that corporate brewers will sell their craft-like ale well below the cost of true craft beer to push them off a bar tap line.<\/p>\n

The Brewers Association trade group defines a craft brewer as small (less than six million barrels), traditional, and independent \u2014 with less than 25 percent ownership by a non-craft brewer. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here are the current “craft” brewers who don’t meet that ownership criterion:<\/p>\n

10 Barrel Brewing \u2014 Anheuser-Busch InBev <\/p>\n

Ballast Point Brewing \u2014 Constellation Brands<\/p>\n

Blue Moon Brewing \u2014 MillerCoors<\/p>\n

Blue Point Brewing \u2014 Anheuser-Busch InBev<\/p>\n

Breckenridge Brewery \u2014 Anheuser-Busch InBev<\/p>\n

Camden Town Brewery (U.K.) \u2014 Anheuser-Busch InBev<\/p>\n

Cervejaria Colorado (Brazil) \u2014 Anheuser-Busch InBev<\/p>\n

Dundee Brewing \u2014 North American Breweries<\/p>\n

Elysian Brewing \u2014 Anheuser-Busch InBev<\/p>\n

Fordham and Dominion Brewing \u2014 40 percent owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev <\/p>\n

Founders Brewing \u2014 30 percent owned by Mahou-San Miguel<\/p>\n

Four Peaks Brewing \u2014 Anheuser-Busch InBev <\/p>\n

Golden Road Brewing \u2014 Anheuser-Busch InBev<\/p>\n

Goose Island Beer Company \u2014 Anheuser-Busch InBev <\/p>\n

Kona Brewing \u2014 32-percent owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev<\/p>\n

Lagunitas Brewing \u2014 50-percent owned by Heineken International<\/p>\n

Leinenkugel’s Brewery \u2014 MillerCoors <\/p>\n

Magic Hat Brewing \u2014 North American Breweries<\/p>\n

Meantime Brewing (U.K.) \u2014 SABMiller<\/p>\n

Mendocino Brewing \u2014 United Breweries Group<\/p>\n

Olde Saratoga Brewing \u2014 United Breweries Group<\/p>\n

Portland Brewing Company (formerly MacTarnahan’s) \u2014 North American Breweries<\/p>\n

Pyramid Breweries \u2014 North American Breweries<\/p>\n

Redhook Brewery \u2014 32-percent owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev<\/p>\n

Saint Archer Brewing \u2014 MillerCoors<\/p>\n

Shock Top Brewing \u2014 Anheuser-Busch InBev<\/p>\n

Widmer Brewing \u2014 32-percent owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Allyn lists quite a number of craft breweries in the United States that are no longer independent or were never independent of the big brewing corporations: It matters who owns your beer, says Carol Stoudt, founder of Stoudt’s Brewing, “The passion is lost when the people running a brewery don’t have ownership, and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,13],"tags":[210,428],"class_list":["post-34478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-usa","tag-beer","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Y6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34479,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34478\/revisions\/34479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}