Boulder Valley brewers ponder the future after New Belgium sale

BOULDER — Hours after New Belgium Brewing Co. dropped a surprise announcement about its sale to an Australian beer conglomerate, a handful of Boulder Valley brewers gathered at BizWest’s Boulder Valley Brewing CEO Roundtable and debated what that means to the craft brew industry at large.
The New Belgium-sized elephant in the room
New Belgium did not disclose how much the deal was worth, or why exactly its ownership decided to sell. That led to some speculation about what was going on at the fourth-largest craft brewery in the U.S. in the run-up…
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