Sun King Brewery

In this edition of People Moves: Joe Menetre, the former vice president of sales at New Belgium Brewing Company, has joined Fort Collins-based Suerte Tequila. Meanwhile, Constellation Brands has appointed former DHL executive Ricardo Bartra as its chief technology officer, and Sun King Brewing president Bob Whitt will step back from his day-to-day responsibilities at the end of July.

Sun King Brewery of Indianapolis announces partnership with Cavalier Distributing of Florida.

Sun King Brewery, a leader in the independent craft beer movement in Indiana, is excited to announce the four independently-operated, local restaurants that will fill the modern day food hall that will be located inside its Carmel, Ind. tap room and distillery scheduled to open this summer: BEAST, La Margarita, Oca and Pi.

Sun King Brewery, a leader in the independent craft beer and spirits movements in Indiana, is excited to announce the development of a new, 13,000-square-foot, specialty production craft brewery and tap room at The Yard at Fishers District in Fishers, Ind., which is projected to open in late spring of 2019.

Sun King Brewery, one of the leaders of the independent craft beer movement in Indiana, is excited to announce the opening of Oca in its refurbished Indianapolis Tap Room.

Beers from Indiana’s Sun King Brewery will make their first appearance on out-of-state retail shelves next month when the company begins distributing to Chicago and Louisville, Kentucky.

Sun King Brewery, one of the leaders of the craft beer movement in Indiana, is excited to announce that Monarch/World Class Beer will begin distributing its Fresh-Local-Beer throughout Marion County starting May 1, 2017.

Sun King Brewery, one of the leaders of the craft beer movement in Indiana, is excited to announce the new development of an approximately 15,000 square foot craft distillery and tap room in Carmel, Ind., that is projected to open in the fall of 2017.

New 12-ounce cans of its first, most popular and award-winning brews, Sunlight Cream Ale and Wee Mac Scottish Ale, will be available on grocery and convenience store shelves for the first time beginning July 25, 2016. At the same time, Sun King will update the packaging of its 16-ounce cans, as well.

Sun King Brewery president and co-founder Omar Robinson will sell a portion of his stake in the business when he retires next month. Simultaneously, Sun King will also turn over minority interest to incoming president Robert Whitt, who will “buy a portion of Omar’s stock over the next few years,” co-founder Clay Robinson told Brewbound. Oregon’s Cascade Brewing, meanwhile, has appointed Tim Larrance as its new vice president of sales and marketing.

Beginning this month, Sun King Brewery, Indianapolis’ largest beer brewer, will expand the distribution of its fresh, local, beer through Indiana Beverage, one of Indiana’s largest distributors of beer and wine, to 24 counties across northern Indiana, including four of the state’s biggest cities: South Bend, Fort Wayne, Hammond and Gary. With this announcement, Sun King beer will be available throughout the entire state of Indiana for the first time in the brewery’s history.

Sun King Brewing is continuing to reestablish distribution across its home state of Indiana, today announcing expanded coverage to 39 counties in southern Indiana via Monarch Beverage. The decision to grow comes nearly one full year after the company pulled out of some Indiana markets to avoid exceeding a statewide small brewery production cap that, at the time, was set at just 30,000 barrels. That cap was raised in May, when Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed into law a bill that tripled the production limit to 90,000 barrels for self-distributing breweries with tasting rooms.

Sun King Brewery is proud to celebrate Indiana’s strong heritage of basketball with the release of a limited number of cans of Tip-Off Ale, a German-style Altbier with a rich copper color and mellow malt flavor.

Continuing its exploration of the craft alcoholic beverage sector, Alltech, a global biotech nutrition company, is investing $13 million in the construction of a new 27,972 sq. ft.brewery and distillery in downtown Pikeville, Ky. Having broken ground on the project earlier this summer, the company expects Dueling Barrels Brewing & Distilling Co. to be open in 2016.