THAT beer boycott is getting worse - ability to recover being questioned by industry insiders
(www.westernjournal.com)
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There's no illusion of choice there; they're different products with different recipes, it's just they've been absorbed into a greater company and figuring that out is often deliberately difficult for exactly situations like this.
I dislike beer (alcohol in general) but if I were a beer kinda guy I'd aim for local. Local is best for most perishable industries anyway, e.g. foods, drinks, etc.
What that list above shows is that there is no local anymore. All of those craft beers people are touting instead of Bud are owned by the big corps. Everything changed once they changed the small batch laws. Big Beer has undergone the same consolidation publishing, media, medicine/hospitals and now banks are going thru.
Hm, I have completely unaffiliated breweries here.
But yes, consolidation is the name of the game. We have been conditioned to only trust big brands as having quality, which is an issue for many reasons.
3 independent small brewers near me, one 5 minutes away. None owned by the beer borg and their batches are small. Plenty of non-corporate beers if you look.