Beer Guys Radio | Craft Beer Podcast

Bad news keeps coming for craft beerA commenter online noted, "I thought they were the good guys," when discussing a recent round of massive layoffs at Tilray-owned breweries.  We did too.  Good guys or not, when breweries are owned by a huge corporation most (all?) of the emotional attachment is removed from ownership.  Where a family-owned brewery may push through tough times and try to keep people working, for better or worse, a large corporation has no interest in such tomfoolery.  Plus, when you merge several breweries you're definitely going to have some duplication of duties in the workforce.And with that said Tilray cleaned house at 10 Barrel, Sweetwater, and Terrapin.  No one was safe with Terrapin laying off brewery co-founder Spike Buckowski and President Dustin Watts.  The entire Innovation Brewing team at 10 Barrel was let go, and several salespeople across all three breweries.  This news always sucks, but this one hit us close to home with many of our friends impacted.In other new