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Originally Posted by SIKSUKR
FWIW, The biggest privately owned brewer in the US started out as a "craft brewery". Sam Adams was the first local brewer that became huge and is now the largest brewer in the US privately owned. At least I think they still are.  |
Sam Adams is still independent in that they are not owned by a foreign company like Anheuser-Bush and Miller/Coors, but they are not privately owned (i.e. they are a public company--Boston Beer Company (ticker SAM)). Yuengling in Pennsylvania is the largest of the independents.
https://www.brewersassociation.org/p...eries-of-2016/