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.