How the World’s Biggest Brewer Killed the Craft Beer Buzz
Is the party over for indie suds?
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22 min readMar 21, 2019
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Steve Luke had plenty to smile about. Cloudburst Brewing, the tiny craft brewery he founded two years earlier in Seattle, had just won a bronze medal at the 2018 Great American Beer Festival in Denver. It was recognition on craft beer’s biggest stage — basically the Oscars of beer — but Luke, a lanky brewing…