Anheuser-Busch is set to buy Goose Island for a cool $38.8 million, according to the Tribune. For those of us familiar with the beer industry, the news doesn't come as a shock. A-B (through Widmer Brothers brewing Co.) has had a 40 percent stake in the company since 2006. That deal opened the doors for Goose Island to increase its sales by reaching more accounts via A-B's national distribution network.
I like Goose Island, a lot, and have sent people that were going to Chicago to their brewpubs and then to the brewery itself.
Ashley and I were drinking Goose Island at the AOA birthday party. When I see it, I drink it.
Now that it is a Bud beer, how is it going to change?
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