Sad, but that's what happened all over the world around that time: beer production was completely industrialized and commoditized and small breweries just could

Sad, but that's what happened all over the world around that time: beer production was completely industrialized and commoditized and small breweries just couldn't compete anymore. The craft beer/microbrewery movement started in the US and UK a few years later, but it took some time until it spread to South America.