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this week's link love is all about ab-inbev buying 10 barrel brewing wall street journal beervana beer advocate the jax beer guy yahoo finance brewbound washington beer blog bend bulletin the portland mercury portland business journal and related story from may me, i think that it's a shame when craft breweries sell themselves to duopolies like ab-inbev sure it's a good move for the owners to sell to the big guys but it rarely means the beer will remain the same artisinal product look at goose island that was supposed to be brewed small scale and only change its distribution after being taken over by ab-inbev but i haven't been totally impressed by their beer that came my way recently (the ipa that i had in vegas as it was the closest to craft choice at the bellagio) so colour me annoyed at 10 barrel for taking away one of my favourite ipas, the apocalypse (which is currently a 96 on ratebeer.com )

con't from yesterday's post: After an afternoon of visiting three lovely establishments it was time to ditch the vehicle and continue on foot.  The final four places I stopped were within very easy walking distance of each other. Downtown Corvallis is not very large and boasts a number of craft beer destinations.   Fourth stop, Flat Tail Brewing, Corvallis, OR This is one of the breweries mentioned in Lisa Morrison's book.  I decided to keep going with the taster paddles and chose 8 beers. We arrived a minute before 6:00 and our server graciously told us if we ordered quickly he could get us in under the“happy hour” wire. Realizing we hadn't eaten at all yet, I ordered the “frickles” - fried pickles with pepper ranch dip - and pretzel sticks with beer & cheddar and honey mustard dips. The pretzels were awesome, the frickles had a bit too much breading on them, but they kept me able to drink my paddle of Kolsch, Amber 8 Man, Bitter Ry...