{"id":20209,"date":"2019-11-20T13:39:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=61613"},"modified":"2019-11-20T13:39:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T20:39:11","slug":"new-belgium-brewing-colorados-largest-craft-brewery-announces-sale-to-international-beer-conglomerate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/new-belgium-brewing-colorados-largest-craft-brewery-announces-sale-to-international-beer-conglomerate\/","title":{"rendered":"New Belgium Brewing, Colorado\u2019s largest craft brewery, announces sale to international beer conglomerate"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"910\" height=\"606\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/11\/New-Belgium-Little-World-Photo.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/11\/New-Belgium-Little-World-Photo.jpg 910w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/11\/New-Belgium-Little-World-Photo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/11\/New-Belgium-Little-World-Photo-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\"><figcaption><strong>New Belgium co-founder Kim Jordan, center, shares a pint with brewery CEO Steve Fechheimer, right, and Matt Tapper, managing director of Lion Little World Beverages.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy New Belgium Brewing<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In the third major blow to the Colorado beer industry in the last two months, New Belgium Brewing on Tuesday announced that the employee-owned company is selling to Australian-based Lion Little World Beverages.<\/p>\n<p>New Belgium is currently the largest craft brewery in Colorado and the fourth-largest in the U.S., behind Yuengling, Boston Beer and Sierra Nevada, according to the Brewers Association. The Fort Collins-based brewery\u2019s cash sale, for an undisclosed amount, is expected to finalize by the end of the year, pending approval by employee stock owners.<\/p>\n<p>More than 300 of New Belgium\u2019s employee-owners will receive more than $100,000 in retirement money through the deal, \u201cwith some receiving significantly greater amounts,\u201d New Belgium founder Kim Jordan&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newbelgium.com\/a-letter-from-kim\/\">wrote in a letter on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/11\/19\/new-belgium-brewing-sale-kirin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Denver Post website, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/new-belgium-brewing-colorados-largest-craft-brewery-announces-sale-to-international-beer-conglomerate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Belgium co-founder Kim Jordan, center, shares a pint with brewery CEO Steve Fechheimer, right, and Matt Tapper, managing director of Lion Little World Beverages.Courtesy New Belgium Brewing In the third major blow to the Colorado beer industry in the last two months, New Belgium Brewing on Tuesday announced that the employee-owned company is selling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 00:15:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}