The Earth Shifts.
Jay Brooks explains the almost inexplicable so I won’t have to:
Once the merger of the two companies is finalized, Anheuser-Busch InBev, will be a Belgian company. MillerCoors consists of MolsonCoors, managed from Canada, and SABMiller, which is either a South African or London-based company, depending on your point of view. That leaves Pabst, the fourth largest beermaker by volume, but they do not own a brewery, instead contracting to have all their beer made at Miller’s breweries. So in terms of actual brewers (that is companies that own and operate a brewery) and who are U.S. owned, the biggest one remaining will be Boston Beer, making Samuel Adams as the undisputed biggest American brewer. Way to go, Jim. It also means Yuengling, America’s oldest brewery, becomes number two and Sierra Nevada comes in third. Amazing, simply amazing!
“Jim” is Boston Beer’s’ Jim Koch and earlier this month I was talking to him and he laughed and said “pretty soon we could be the largest owned American brewery.” A week or so earlier, Flying Fish’s Gene Muller remarked in passing about a story I was interviewing him for, “By the time this sees print, we could be the largest American-owned brewery in New Jersey.”
“Amazing” hardly begins to cover it.
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