Beverage Industry News» Business of Beerposted Dec 20th, 2021 by Tom McCormick
According to a story in San Diego Beer News, Atlanta-based SweetWater Brewery is in the process of buying the brand portfolio of the Green Flash Brewing of San Diego. The acquisition includes the Alpine Brewing brands, which Green Flash acquired in 2014.
Upon completion, SweetWater, the country’s eleventh-largest craft-brewing company, will begin the process of moving all production of Green Flash to its facility in Fort Collins, Colorado.
The 45,000-square-foot Green Flash facility in San Diego is expected to be put on the market with all equipment in place and sold as a turnkey brewery.
It has been a stunning series of events for Green Flash, which just over five years ago was among the fastest-growing brewing companies in the country and proceeded to build a second brewery in Virginia Beach. Just 16 months after getting it up and running, Green Flash made the decision to close the facility.