(Santa Rosa, CA) — Moonlight Brewing, the cult favourite craft brewery finest identified for Dying & Taxes® Black Beer and Actuality Czeck®-style Pilsner Beer, is getting into a brand new section because it celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. Patrick Rue, a craft beer innovator and Grasp Cicerone®, has bought half curiosity in Moonlight from The Lagunitas Brewing Firm, and can be part of with founder Brian Hunt as companions within the brewery.
Brian will retain his half possession and can stay actively concerned. Longtime Moonlight brewer Zac Greenwood will proceed in his present capability as Head Brewer, main the manufacturing workforce whereas overseeing innovation and enlargement. Erin Latham-Ponneck, Brian’s daughter, will proceed in her position as Operations Supervisor (aka Chaos Administration Specialist), overseeing the day-to-day operating of Moonlight Brewing.
Patrick will serve in an advisory capability and can direct an oak barrel-aging beer program that enhances the integrity and heritage of Moonlight. Patrick is finest identified for his work at The Bruery, which he based in 2008. He’s presently the maker and proprietor of Erosion, a vineyard and brewery in Napa Valley.
Over the past six years in the course of the Moonlight and Lagunitas partnership, Moonlight persevered regardless of the headwinds and slowing progress of the craft beer trade. Moonlight packaging shifted from solely draft to moreover providing beers in handy cans, each manufacturing and distribution have grown, and innovation has flourished, all whereas retaining gross sales restricted to Northern California.
The 2 firms have a mutual respect for one another and their mixed 59 years as craft brewers (Moonlight was based in 1992, and Lagunitas in 1993). Moonlight operated independently from Lagunitas throughout their partnership and can proceed to focus manufacturing on lager beers like Dying & Taxes® Black Beer and Actuality Czeck®-style Pilsner.
The brand new possession strengthens Moonlight’s dedication to remaining domestically owned. It will enable for affected person progress, better availability of its coveted beers to its followers and wholesale companions, whereas sustaining the deliciousness and highest high quality for which Moonlight is so well-known.
We invite you to attempt our wide selection of beers, help some native meals distributors/musicians and meet some new mates by visiting the Moonlight Brewing Faucet Room positioned at 3350 Coffey Lane, Suite D, Santa Rosa, CA 95403. Our new expanded hours of operation beginning Wednesday, Could 18 are: Wednesday 4-8 PM, Thursday-Friday 4-10 PM, Saturday 12-10 PM and Sunday 12-8 PM. We additionally invite followers, each new and previous, to avoid wasting the date for our thirtieth Anniversary Occasion on Saturday August twenty seventh, 2022 on the Faucet Room.
