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Input: With Anheuser-Busch InBev, MillerCoors, Sapporo, and other beer behemoths snapping up craft brewers left and right, the Craft Brewers Association is asking why this acquisition spree can’t also go the other way, which is why it’s trying to crowdfund a mere $213 billion to buy AB InBev, and then do… something, maybe, with it. 
  
 The group says its “Take Craft Back” effort is aimed at buying AB InBev, which it claims has taken the independence of real craft brewers as well as stealing customers’ freedom of choice. 
  
 “Since 2011, Anheuser-Busch InBev has quietly acquired 10 small and independent breweries, but they won’t tell you that on their packaging,” said the face of the campaign, a guy named Andy who appears in a campaign video for the group, and is identified only as “an avowed lover of craft beer.” 
  
 “Big Beer creates an ‘illusion of choice,’ but we are presenting them with a reality check — and hopefully, at the end of the day, with a real check too,” Andy said. 
  
 On its campaign site, the group accuses corporate overlords at Big Beer of buying up all of certain hop varietals to keep it out of the hands of independent brewers, even though they didn’t need or use the hops. 
  
 In addition, Take Craft Back claims on its site that these major companies buy up craft breweries “left and right,” and then use their “sheer financial mass to make sure that independent craft brewers who refuse to sell out get pushed to the margins.” 
  
 As of Monday at about 1:45 p.m. ET, the campaign’s site indicated it had received $265,160 worth of pledges. The group says pledges will only be collected after all $213 billion has been secured. 
  
 Yes, this is all pretty clearly just a publicity stunt by the craft brewers, but what if — just, what if — every adult in the U.S. each contributed $1,000, and miraculously made this thing happen? What would AB InBev’s new owners do with their new purchase — Break it up? Turn the factories over to homebrew aficionados? Start releasing Bud Light that tastes like something? It would be madness… though it will never actually happen. 
  
 Even so, we’ve reached out to the Association to ask about its ultimate intentions if the impossible were to become possible. We will update if we receive a response. 
  
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 How? By announcing craft’s intent to buy Anheuser-Busch InBev. 
  
 They Buy Us, Now We Buy Them 
  
 You read that right. Effective immediately, pledges are being collected at Take Craft Back with the audacious goal of raising $213 billion to purchase AB InBev. While the international conglomerate continues its global campaign to monopolize beer, we aim to use the power of public markets to educate consumers and return craft to the people. 
  
 Take Craft Back is intended as a humorous rallying cry to bring attention to a serious issue: AB InBev’s intention to permanently alter the craft landscape by presenting acquired brands as if they were truly, authentically independent—ultimately narrowing real choice in the marketplace for the beer lover. 
  
 The Take Craft Back campaign is designed to support the visibility of the independent craft brewer seal, launched this summer to increase beer drinker awareness of and preference for truly independent beer. In a short time span, the seal has received overwhelming support, with nearly 2,300 independent craft breweries (as of mid-October 2017) signed up to use the mark on their bottles, cans, packaging, tap handles, menus, coasters, festival banners, websites, social media and more. 
  
 Unlike Big Beer, craft brewers put community over corporation, people and principles ahead of profits, and beer before the bottom line. 
  
 The seal is a smart, cost-effective means of communicating our complex story, and Take Craft Back borrows a page from the same playbook. We don’t have the money Big Beer does to execute consumer campaigns; there are no $5 million Super Bowl ads in our future. So, just as we did with the creation of the seal, we asked ourselves: how can we turn beer advertising upside down, and on a strict budget? 
  
 While the topic—the corporate takeover of craft—could not be more serious for brewers, the campaign is a humorous way to maximize its consumer reach. Take Craft Back spotlights the vast difference in resources between Big Beer and America’s small and independent craft brewers, and the tongue-in-cheek campaign embodies the spirit and ethos of the craft brewing community—a group that has never shied away from a challenge. 
  
 Take Craft Back – How You Can Help 
  
 Please join us by supporting Take Craft Back in any of the following ways. Note: No money will be collected until we reach $213 billion in pledges…*wink,* you get the picture. 
  
 Start by making your own pledge at TakeCraftBack.com, and encourage people in your networks to pledge. 
  
 Help us grow the movement! Share videos and social media posts from Take Craft Back on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, using the hashtags #TakeCraftBack and #IndependentBeer. 
  
 Visit the Take Craft Back toolkit for brewers for additional ideas on spreading the word. Over the next few weeks, keep an eye on TakeCraftBack.com for campaign updates to share and help elevate the cause’s visibility. 
  
 Ultimately, Take Craft Back is about the real reasons beer drinkers should seek out beers from small and independent craft brewers. Unlike Big Beer, craft brewers put community over corporation, people and principles ahead of profits, and beer before the bottom line. We couldn’t be more passionate about truly independent beer—and about keeping our industry authentic and transparent. ||||| We’re proud to have launched the largest crowdfunding campaign ever in the history of crowdfunding campaigns, to raise $213 to buy Anheuser-Busch InBev and Take Craft Back! And…it turns out $213 billion is really a very, very, very large sum of money. But while the crowdfund is coming to an end, our cause lives on! 
  
 We’re taking pledges of support through December 15, 2017 – so if you haven’t pledged yet, now is the time to do so, here. 
  
 Beyond December 15? Take Craft Back will live on in spirit when you keep supporting independent craft beer by drinking independent craft beer. Need help finding an independent craft brewery near you? Check out this brewery locator: http://bit.ly/CBBreweryFinder |||||
Output:
It's a classic tale of David versus Goliath—though this one involves beer. The Brewers Association is targeting Big Beer via a crowdfunding campaign that's trying to amass $213 billion, which it says would be used to purchase Anheuser-Busch InBev. The campaign asks that you watch its impassioned three-minute video on the quest and "get your righteous indignation going! And then pledge your support. Because we need a lot of pledges. Seriously. Like, really a lot." And it's managed to hit seven figures, with $1.6 million donated thus far. But as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports, the association isn't really trying to buy the biggest brewer in the world. "No money will be collected until we reach $213 billion in pledges ... *wink,* you get the picture," explains a post on its website. "Take Craft Back is intended as a humorous rallying cry to bring attention to a serious issue: AB InBev's intention to permanently alter the craft landscape by presenting acquired brands"—among them Wicked Weed Brewing and Elysian Brewing Company—"as if they were truly, authentically independent." Still, that hasn't stopped Consumerist from speculating about what would happen if $213 billion miraculously was donated: "What would AB InBev's new owners do with their new purchase? ... Start releasing Bud Light that tastes like something?"