{"id":12318,"date":"2014-05-13T04:36:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T10:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=12318"},"modified":"2014-05-13T04:36:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T10:36:20","slug":"the-small-business-of-small-breweries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-small-business-of-small-breweries\/","title":{"rendered":"The small business of small breweries"},"content":{"rendered":"

This plum is too ripe!
\n– Sorry!
\nTake away the golden moonbeam.
\nTake away the tinsel sky.
\nWhat at night seems oh so scenic
\nMay be cynic by and by. <\/em><\/p>\n

     – From “The Plum Is Ripe” and the musical The Fantasticks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday at CNNMoney<\/a> Rob Sands of Constellation Brands explained why his company it not interested in taking a stake in any craft breweries — for instance, like Anheuser-Busch InBev buying Blue Point Brewing.<\/p>\n

“Although the craft beer industry is growing very rapidly, it’s a very local business,” he said. “It’s not clear that these brands can be expanded beyond their locale.” <\/p>\n

For Constellation, that’s a negative. For some of us, not so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This plum is too ripe! – Sorry! Take away the golden moonbeam. Take away the tinsel sky. What at night seems oh so scenic May be cynic by and by.      – From “The Plum Is Ripe” and the musical The Fantasticks Yesterday at CNNMoney Rob Sands of Constellation Brands explained why his company it not … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beers-of-conviction","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3cG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12320,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions\/12320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}