Let the Talks Begin: Redhook and Widmer Start Merger Talks

The promised big consolidation in the craft segment in the 1990s, which never really materialized, may have just heard the starting gun. On the other hand, these two breweries are halfway merged already in a sense. Redhook Ale Brewery plans to start merger talks as early as today with Portland's Widmer Brothers Brewing. The possibility of merger talks was revealed in an SEC filing by A-B and Redhook yesterday.Widmer and Redhook, of course, are already joined at the hip as