AB InBev Buyout Has Forced Wicked Weed to Cancel Its Annual Funky Beer Festival

May 11, 2017

(Food&Wine) - Any lingering questions over which breweries will and will not be attending Wicked Weed Brewing’s annual Funkitorium Invitational event this year have officially been answered: No one will be attending. The sour beer festival has been canceled – at least for its scheduled date and in its current form.

Originally launched in 2014, the Funkitorium Invitational found its footing by focusing on the less common style of sour and wild beers. Hosted by Asheville, North Carolina’s Wicked Weed Brewing, who has its own robust wild beer program, this angle helped bring out breweries from all across the country excited to show off their funky creations. The same seemed set for this year – with over 70 breweries (very good ones, no less) – scheduled to attend the July 8 fest… but then the bomb dropped: On May 3, Wicked Weed announced that the company had been acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev


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