Ancestry Brewing and Half Lion are the 2 newest craft beverage corporations to affix RBD’s Western Washington distribution space.
KENT, WA – With a listing of greater than 10 craft beverage makers, River Barrel Distributing has been shortly rising since its launch in 2020. The corporate’s most up-to-date additions embrace two extra Pacific Northwest breweries – one from Oregon and one from Washington.
Ancestry Brewing was based in Tualatin, Oregon by the Turner Household who’ve a historical past of service within the US Navy. Ancestry’s first location in 2016 in Tualatin, Oregon. The corporate shortly gained recognition and expanded to the Portland space in 2017. Since then, Ancestry has gained a number of awards for its Irish Purple Ale, Belgian Darkish Robust Ale, and Kolsch. With a give attention to element and high quality, the corporate continues to brew favorites just like the Greatest Coast IPA, Porter, Piney IPA, and its small-batch sequence.
“We’re excited to have a approach to get our beer to clients within the Higher Seattle space who’ve been wanting Ancestry. Shout out to River Barrel Distributing for making it attainable!” says Jerry Turner, Co-founder of Ancestry Brewing.
River Barrel Distributing’s listing additionally features a second Washington-based brewery, Half Lion Brewing Firm. The corporate started as a house brewing venture and was jokingly known as Half Lion Beer, a reputation sparked by a dialog about giant canine bred to hunt lions; the mistakenly heard time period “half canine, half lion” finally grew to become the identify for Half Lion Brewing. The brewery opened its first location in Sumner in 2016 and since then has created its personal line of laborious seltzers along with traditional beer types like blondes, ambers, and IPAs.
“Partnering with a neighborhood distributor versus a nationwide and even bigger regional distributor offers us each an opportunity to point out the small clients what nice customer support is,” says Eric Haines, Vice President of Half Lion Brewing Firm.
River Barrel Distributing has been rising its Washington-based crew and is happy to proceed partnering with native breweries, cideries, meaderies, and different craft beverage makers to carry high quality drinks to the world.
“We’ve had huge plans for RBD & it’s thrilling to see all of it coming collectively,” says Joe Cohen, Gross sales Supervisor for RBD. “We’re thrilled to be working with a model primarily based proper in our yard of Kent/Sumner. There’s plenty of native pleasure round Half Lion’s beers & we are able to’t wait to get them out to extra clients.”
Cohen made his manner from New England to Washington in 2008 and since then, has loved working within the beer trade and creating his own residence fermentation initiatives. He’s joined by one other new member of the RBD crew, Rick Jameson, a beer-fan-turned-Instagrammer with expertise within the beverage gross sales trade from “almost each angle.”
“Being on a mission to satisfy the beverage wants of my neighborhood with an entire portfolio of nice choices isn’t simply an thrilling profession alternative, it’s extra like permitting me to stroll in my ardour,” says Jameson. “I’m grateful to River Barrel for the privilege to do it.”
River Barrel Distributing Rick Jameson and Joe Cohen
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River Barrel Distributing is a Western Washington space distribution firm distributing craft beer, spirits, and cider. Serving the Washington counties of King, Pierce, Thurston, Lewis, Snohomish, Kitsap, and Grays Harbor.
