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As 5.25% owners of Anchor Brewing, I guess BrewDog has its right to a public statement on the matter as well.
We also took offense of Jim Koch’s public attack on Keith Greggor’s character and questioned his commitment to beer. Many BrewDog shareholder’s have met Keith at our Equity for Punks events and he is as committed to and passionate about craft beer as any other member of the BrewDog team. Keith invested in our craft beer start up, pretty much on pure faith after only having met with us once at 2008 Hamilton’s Tavern in San Diego. He leveraged a tiny import company to put a deal together to acquire Anchor Brewing with the full support of Fritz Maytag. With his own house on the line to personally guarantee the Anchor loans needed to avoid the need for professional equity investors, we would say he is pretty committed overall to craft beer overall.
Full blog at Boston Beer Company v Anchor Brewing Company | BrewDog.
Brewdog must be on a break between gimmicky high octane limited edition beers.
@Meh- Thats pretty funny. @ JIm Koch- At some point you got to realize you’re not only making yourself look like a big bad Goliath, you are doing it to your company as well which has a hard time not looking like one of the heartless big boys already.
I’m glad that BrewDog has entered the argument, so I know who to root against. Seriously, screw those guys and their ridiculous grain-alcohol-served-in-roadkill beers.
@Jeremy-
Hate the game, not the player. At least their hearts are in it.
It has nothing to do with heart. It’s called a contract/written agreement. It was violated. If you don’t like Samuel Adams because they’re “too big” not only is that ridiculous but it has nothing to do with the issue at hand.
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