Unibroue Has Sold Out

[cdh]

Bad news for all lovers of Blanche de Chambley, Maudite, La Fin Du Monde, Trois Pistoles and the rest of the Unibroue lineup. The brewery was purchased yesterday by Canadian megabrewer Sleeman.

No word on what changes will be made, but my bet is that they're on the way. Stock up on the classics while you can get them!

Link to article

[paul o' vendange]

Great news, Chris. Consolidation always helps out so much with maintaining quality.

Watch the slide down, and cry in our beers. Crap.

[malarkey]

I just got this lovely news also. Ironic, considering I had a Blanche de Chambly just last night...

[KeystoVt]

Word has it that they are keeping only Blanche de Chambly, Maudite and Fin du Monde. Stock up on the others while you can.

[malarkey]

NOT Ephemere?! <gloom despair and agony>

[Kent Wang]

Any updates on potential changes to the line up? I like Trois Pistoles and Fin du Monde, myself.

[BrentKulman]

Any updates on potential changes to the line up? I like Trois Pistoles and Fin du Monde, myself.

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Both of those beers are still in the line-up. The consensus has been that the beers remain as good as ever. Thus far, the early concerns about the impact of the takeover have not been realized.

[SBonner]

Interesting news...I've been having problems ordering these beers for some of my restaurant clients. The agent for them just mentioned "inventory and shipping issues"

Cheers,

Stephen

Vancouver

[2roost]

Canadian megabrewer Sleeman.

No word on what changes will be made, but my bet is that they're on the way.  Stock up on the classics while you can get them!

Link to article

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Very hard to think of Sleeman as a "megabrewer", Sleeman quality is very good and they have made little or no changes to the brewing philosophies of the companies they have acquired in the past, Okanagan Spring and Shaftebury, in my area.

Let's wait and see before burning the witches.