USA, GA & CA: SweetWater Brewing acquires Green Flash Brewing and Alpine Beer brands

Atlanta, Georgia-based SweetWater Brewing has acquired the Mira Mesa, California-based Green Flash Brewing, and Alpine Beer brands, the Beer Street Journal reported on December 20.

SweetWater is not acquiring the facility or brewing equipment, that will apparently remain with current owners to be put up for sale or other entrepreneurship opportunities.

Green Flash and Alpine beer production will move to SweetWater’s newly opened Fort Collins, Colorado facility.

Just over a year ago, SweetWater Brewery was acquired for $300 million dollars by Aphria, a Canadian-based cannabis company. The deal in part due to the brewery’s successfully ‘420 Strain’ of beers created using cannabis terpenes (organic smell compounds).

Financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed.

SweetWater Brewery is ranked 11th overall in annual production according to the Brewer’s Association.

21 December, 2021