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AB InBev Owned Breckenridge Brewery Sues Founder (Breckenridge, CO) – Breckenridge Brewery has existed in Breckenridge since 1990. But as has been reported its run as the third oldest brewery in Colorado may have come to an end after the property owner “abruptly and inexplicably” backed out of an agreement to renew the brewery’s lease. But there’s an even more intriguing backstory surrounding this incident.
Breckenridge Brewery was founded by Richard Squire, a businessman turned ski bum/brewer along with six other locals. And what started as one of Colorado’s first brewpubs caught fire. In 2015 the consortium sold all of its holdings to AB InBev who now own a dozen “craftys” around the world.
Squire is now invested in other businesses. And one of those businesses, which he owns along with another family according to Westword, owns the building that just pulled its lease from Breckenridge Brewery in the famed ski-town. Breckenridge Brewery has filed suit against Breckenridge Brewery Real Estate LTD (the holding company for the building in the dispute), “claiming that the two sides had reached a five-year lease agreement back in February,” and asking for damages in excess of $100,000.
Squire, who now owns Suzie’s CBD Treats (we can’t make this stuff up) a company offering CBD dog biscuits, ointments and oils for dogs with pain, told the publication that
Breckenridge Brewery, and its original location on Main Street, specifically, shouldn’t be run by a Belgium-based conglomerate like AB InBev.”
Words To Drink By (Breckenridge, CO) – “{Breckenridge} brewery needs to go back into the hands of the locals… back to the people. InBev is a Belgian corporation. That’s not what I started the company for.” Richard Squire to Westword
Two Many Beer Events? (Long Beach, CA) – In order to give brewers a little space between major events, the inaugural Long Beach Beer Week has been bumped to 2020 according to the Press-Telegram.
Long Beach Beer Week was originally planned to take place Sept.13-22, the same time as the California Craft Beer Summit and Beer Festival which is expected to draw thousands to the Long Beach Convention Center.
