Oskar Blues Brewery to expand international distribution to 9 more countries

LONGMONT — Oskar Blues Brewery said Tuesday that the company plans to increase its international footprint into nine new countries over the coming six months or so.

Longmont-based Oskar Blues — which achieved distribution in all 50 United States when it entered Montana earlier this year — is already distributing internationally to the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Canada and Australia.

Company officials said that by the end of 2016, they plan to have Puerto Rico, Spain, Chile, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium added to the list. Brazil, New Zealand and Japan are slated to follow in early 2017.

Oskar Blues, which also opened…