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Given the remarkably shady business practices of the entrenched players (past and present), I don't consider this relentless consolidation to be desirable. Addi
by gervase 9y ago
Given the remarkably shady business practices of the entrenched players (past and present), I don't consider this relentless consolidation to be desirable. Additionally, in other markets where such consolidation has happened, it has historically not been beneficial for consumers (internet access, cell providers, etc).
I primarily interact with this market via the grocery store, not the bar tap, but I find this app [0] to be useful in that context. It makes it relatively painless to leverage my (minuscule) purchasing power to support small businesses, and reject these kinds of intentionally-obscured corporate maneuvers.
[0]: http://www.craftcheckapp.com/ http://www.craftcheckapp.com/
- splatcollision 9y agoIf you don't want the barcode scanning feature, and just want to type in a name and see who owns it, why can't this be a plain old website? Or to say it another way, is there a web-based interface that does the same thing?
- njarboe 9y agoWikipedia seems to work well for this. For the few breweries I looked up Wikipedia it has a box at the top with a summary of info which includes "Owner" or "Parent" or "Manufacturer". For Lagunitas you get:Heineken International For Blue Moon you get:MillerCoors For Anchor Steam you get:Sapporo Holdings