03 Oct 2016 --- The European and US craft beer sector have exploded in the last ten years – in fact micro is now mainstream, as highlighted by recent acquisitions of craft brewers by the big players in the industry. Recently in the UK, craft brewer Camden Town Brewery was bought for about £85 million (US$111million) by giant AB InBev, the maker of Budweiser and Stella Artois beers. Meanwhile, the world’s second-largest brewer, SABMiller – itself in the process of being taken over by AB InBev – acquired London’s Meantime Brewery last May, in another multi-million dollar deal.
