Episode 179 of the Bearest Podcast recorded July 30th, 2015. Beryl'd everything. So we debated bringing this up last week.

But you shot it down.

I know.

I know.

Well, it had already been a week or so since the news had come out,

and it was just going to be old news. And it is old news still. It's older news now. It is.

It is irrelevant. Yeah. It's still relevant. And I think that now we've kind of had some time to

form an opinion about it. So, yeah, we talked about this a little earlier, the Firestone Walker acquisition by Duval Mortgat. Which, you know, on the face of it, to me, at the time, wasn't, you know, that big of a deal.

And really, like, if they were going to get bought out by any larger beer conglomerate, that was going to be an okay one for me.

And it might not be a big deal.

I mean, that might be all it is.

Right, Right. But there's some other implications and other things that I kind of thought about after

the fact.

And that was,

what if Duval Morgat is trying to beef up their portfolio to have like, you know,

a little bit more extra heft when they decide to sell out to one of the other larger beer

companies.

And that's the worry.

I mean,

and it's a worry for me. It's a minor worry because I don't know that the other companies,

like we're talking about AB InBev and Miller Coors.

And the breweries that have been acquired by AB Inveveve have not really declined much.

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