The brewmaster has quit, cease supporting.
Macrobreweries (the big guys, A-B, Coors, Miller, etc.) buy microbreweries to undermine the microbrew industry. They buy brands like Leinenkugel and Blue Moon, use their macrobrew market share and economies of scale to undercut real microbreweries on price while getting their products better placement at bars and liquor stores. It’s an effort to kill the microbrew industry and limit consumer choices. If you support brewer creativity please cease purchasing Goose Island (or, for that matter, Blue Moon and Leinenkugel) immediately.
[Not to mention Goose Island kind of sucks anyhow.]
this is very true.
The problem of course is that Blue Moon is actually a very good beer, and a lot of times, it’s the only “microbrew” you can get at bars (though, there’s usually Sam Adams as well. But how much of a microbrew is Sam Adams?).
How much of a Microbrew is Blue Moon!?
1. Goose Island isn’t a craft beer. I saw something that Goose Island lost that qualification or whathaveyou in 1996.
2. Goose Island isn’t all that good. 312 is what people from the suburbs who come to Chicago drink to try to not look like they live in the suburbs.
Wow, people are seriously getting that upset over this? Undermine microbrews? You’re starting to sound like a bunch of libertarians. They’re still gonna make Goose Island in Chicago and nothing will change.
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