Will Craft Consolidate?

Dear Client:People have been predicting the rollup of the craft brewing industry for -- well, as long as I've been in the industry. There have been some thrusts and feints. When Miller acquired Leine's and Celis and A-B took a stake in Redhook in the early days, it was thought that this was just the beginning of a big gobble-up by the Bigs. But then craft slowed down and consolidation virtually stopped. Or almost stopped. In the late 1990s there