Canadian brewer sues Denver’s Tivoli over moose imagery

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Canada’s oldest independent brewery and Colorado’s oldest brewery are locking horns.

Moosehead Breweries, which was founded in New Brunswick in 1867, charged into federal court last week and sued Denver-based Tivoli Brewing Co., which dates to 1859.

Moosehead objects to Tivoli’s new Outlaw Mile Hi Light Beer, introduced earlier this year, which features a profile of a moose head on the can.

The Canada brewery wrote in the lawsuit that it has a family of Moose trademarks, which include the term “moose” and the likeness of the head of a moose, used in connection…