text: These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| However, at Black Project, we have deep and serious issues with many of ABInBev's business strategies, mission, and overall ethics as they relate to craft beer in America. In Denver alone, we've seen several instances of highly aggressive, predatory, and what we consider to be unethical practices. We truly believe that ABInBev intends to systematically destroy American craft beer as we know it. We don't personally buy, seek, trade, or acquire any of their products for this reason, and we've been known to encourage our friends to do the same. 
   
   As some of you may know, and something many people have asked us about today, we have two collaboration beers with Wicked Weed currently in-progress; one beer at our facility and one at theirs. We also had plans, and were looking forward to attending, the Wicked Weed Funkatorium Invitational this July. We had a decision to make - to continue a business relationship with Wicked Weed now that they will be owned by ABInBev, or to cut ties and hopefully remain friends. 
   
   For us, the choice is clear. At this stage, we don't feel we are able to have a business relationship with Wicked Weed because that connection, ultimately, is one with ABInBev. Unfortunately, we don’t feel that having any connection with ABInBev is something we can do while still maintaining our mission, values, and core beliefs. 
   
   What this means is that we will not be able to lend our name to the unfinished collaboration beer currently aging in Asheville, NC. Additionally, the beer we brewed with Wicked Weed here at Black Project will be blended with other existing aged beer we have on hand to make something totally different which we will not consider a Wicked Weed collaboration. Finally, we will not be attending the Wicked Weed Funkatorium Invitational in July. 
   
   We wish the best to everyone at Wicked Weed and we are happy for their success. We know they will continue to make great beers and we hope to remain personal friends in the future. 
   
   Sincerely, 
   
   
   
   James Howat and Sarah Howat 
   
   Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales ||||| Craft beer drinkers, prepare for the hair on your presumably hipster-bearded faces to stand on end. You are being mocked, yet again, during the most widely watched TV event of the year, the Super Bowl. And yet again, it’s Budweiser dishing the disses. 
   
   The fact that you yourself probably mock the “King of Beers” and Bud drinkers on a regular basis may offer some degree of comfort. But that’s likely not enough to stop craft beer brewers and fans from being agitated by the latest craft beer-bashing Super Bowl ad from Budweiser. 
   
   Last year, there was considerable backlash to Bud’s Super Bowl commercial, which proclaimed Bud as “proudly a macro beer” and made fun of hipster types who enjoyed fancy, “fussed over” brews. Understandably, the craft beer world was outraged, and some even created parodies of the Bud commercial. 
   
   Even fellow beer giant MillerCoors issued a statement condemning the Budweiser Super Bowl commercial. “We believe each and every style of beer is worth fussing over,” the message from MillerCoors stated. “Quality isn’t something that belongs to a single style of beer or a single brewer.” 
   
   Read next: Big Beer’s 5-Point Plan to Crush the Craft Beer Revolution 
   
   A big reason people were upset with the ad is that Budweiser’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch InBev, is clearly infatuated with craft beer, and the message was hypocritical. The company has been buying up craft beer labels left and right, including brands like Breckenridge Brewery and Four Peaks very recently. What’s more, Anheuser-Busch InBev not only created one of America’s most popular faux indie “crafty” beers with the Shock Top label, but it is featuring Shock Top in a Super Bowl commercial this year for the first time ever. 
   
   Nonetheless, the Budweiser Super Bowl ads of this year and last mock craft beer. In fact, despite the fact that Shock Top is often served with an orange wedge—and the logo and tap handles even feature an orange—the Bud commercial this year points out that Budweiser is “Not a Fruit Cup,” while showing a grizzled old-timer at the bar flicking a fruit wedge off his pint of Bud. 
   
   This year’s Super Bowl ad features a pounding soundtrack and a series of proclamations pointing out what Budweiser isn’t. We learn in boldface CAPS that Budweiser is… 
   
   NOT SMALL 
   
   (Most craft brewers are small, indie operations, and presumably, small is bad?) 
   
   NOT SIPPED 
   
   (Sipping is for sissies who drink beer for the taste.) 
   
   NOT SOFT 
   
   (More subtle messaging that craft beer is for wusses.) 
   
   NOT A FRUIT CUP 
   
   (See above; also, if you haven’t gotten the message yet, Bud is macho, not fruity.) 
   
   NOT IMPORTED 
   
   (Considering that Anheuser-Busch InBev is not an U.S. company, Budweiser is not really an American brand either, but why point this out in a commercial seen by more than 100 million viewers? Side note: The 4,000 craft breweries in the U.S. aren’t imported either, and unlike Budweiser, they are, in fact, American-owned.) 
   
   NOT FOR EVERYONE 
   
   (Something we can all agree on!) 
   
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   If the point of such an ad is to stir up some controversy in the beer world, Bud’s ad will probably succeed. Yet there’s probably another reason the commercial was created with such an anti-craft stance. It’s not supposed to win over craft beer drinkers by insulting them. That would never work. 
   
   Read next: Why Super Bowl Advertisers Are OK That the Commercials Don’t Boost Sales 
   
   Instead, the goal seems to be making Budweiser drinkers feel OK, perhaps even proud, that they are Budweiser drinkers. They aren’t trendy. They aren’t soft or small, or fruity. And apparently, they feel so insecure that they need for Budweiser to point all of this out.
target: – To a craft beer aficionado, the only sin worse than drinking a Bud would be if your favorite brewery sold out to the company that owns it. That's the situation that has fans of the Wicked Weed brewery now crying "treachery," per the Washington Post, which reports on the news that the Asheville, NC, institution has teamed up with Anheuser-Busch InBev "as a strategic partner." The reason for the move by Wicked Weed—which the Citizen-Times notes was founded in 2012 by Walt and Luke Dickinson and friends Ryan, Rick, and Denise Guthy—is, as Walt Dickinson explains, to stay competitive. A fellow craft brewery owner in Oregon backs him up, noting that his own brewery's acquisition by AB InBev offered him access to better ingredients and distribution. But the buyout has craft beer fans livid, especially after Budweiser's 2015 and 2016 Super Bowl ads that mocked craft beer drinkers. Wicked Weed's Facebook announcement was met with angry and sad emoji, with "very disappointed" and "disheartened" just a sampling of the negative comments. Some of Wicked Weed's distributors and partners aren't happy, either, with Denver's Black Project brewery cutting its ties to WW—not because it doesn't love the beer, but because it believes AB InBev has "unethical practices" and "intends to systematically destroy American craft beer as we know it." Other commenters on Wicked Weed's Facebook page say they will remain loyal fans. "At the end of the day, great beer will win," Walt Dickinson tells the Citizen-Times. (Walmart recently took heat on the craft beer front.)