E-Malt.com News article: USA, CO & NC: Oskar Blues named one of the fastest growing companies in America

Oskar Blues Brewery, the first craft brewery in the country to brew and hand-can its own beer, continued explosive growth in 2014 and earned a position in the top half of the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America, brewbound.com reported on September, 16.

The average company on the list grew a mind-boggling 516 percent. Nine plus years of consecutive double digit growth (triple digit growth before that) catapulted Oskar Blues onto the list.

Oskar Blues Brewery has more than doubled production since 2011, packaging more than 119,000 barrels in 2013, and increasing distribution to 35 U.S. states and four countries overall. Growth was fuelled by the addition of a second brewery and Tasty Weasel Taproom, both in Brevard, North Carolina, in late 2012. Both East and West Oskar Blues breweries are continuing to expand in 2014, including adding 60,000 square feet of production space in Colorado. That space will include a six-lane bowling alley that will be open to Tasty Weasel customers.

Oskar Blues has grown to become the largest American craft brewery to package beer exclusively in cans, and currently is ranked 24th on the Brewers Association Top 50 Breweries list. Oskar Blues was named “Craft Brewer of the Year” by Beverage World Magazine in 2012.



19 September, 2014