Anheuser-Busch Website Roils Smaller Craft Brewery

Article about Beachwood Brewing has been removed from The Beer Necessities

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It didn’t take long for The Beer Necessities, a handsome new website underwritten by Anheuser-Busch’s division The High End, to upset the hops cart. Via a May 3 Facebook post, Beachwood Brewing, a company headquartered in Long Beach, Calif., admitted that they should have done better research before agreeing to be interviewed by a writer for the site, which was not yet live at the time.

Nevertheless, the folks at Beachwood were not happy once the article was published and they realized that it had a direct lineage to Anheuser-Busch.

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