Is This a Conflict? ABI Owns Rate Beer

It may be as clean as the driven snow, but Zx Ventures, a division of AB InBev, has acquired 100% of RateBeer.com.  Terms weren’t disclosed.  Zx acquired a minority position in 2016.

The site’s founder says this won’t affect the website or its ratings.  Maybe not.  But it seems to us a bad idea for members of an industry to own anything covering the industry.  It just looks bad.  Plus, there’s the Golden Rule:  He who has the gold, rules.

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