Surly Brewing Company

Minnesota’s Surly Brewing Company showed the most sales growth among the top 50 domestic craft brewing companies last year, selling about 76,550 barrels of beer, according to data released last week by industry trade organization the Brewers Association.

Surly Brewing is pleased to announceRising North Pale Ale, the official beer of Minnesota United.

There’s bad blood brewing in Minnesota. Summit Brewing Company is suing two former employees, accusing them “of conspiring to sell the company’s confidential trade secrets to high-level executives for ‘a direct competitor,’” according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Chicago-based Finch Beer Co. will reportedly close its original brewery on Elston Avenue, leave the brewpub it launched in June and begin partner brewing with a yet-to-be-named Windy City brewery, according to the Chicago Tribune.

After 13 years at one of the country’s highest-profile craft breweries, Dogfish Head CEO Nick Benz will depart the organization at the end of the year, the company announced today. Brewery founder and chairman Sam Calagione will takeover as CEO following Benz’s departure.

After successful expansion across the Midwest over the last 18 months, Surly Brewing Company, the Twin Cities-based craft brewery, will continue to fuel its ever-growing army of fans, dubbed ‘Surly Nation’ by heading west and beginning distribution in North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska.

Surly Brewing continues to tap into a variety of emerging retail outlets for its products. After announcing last month that cans of its Furious, Bender and Hell beers would be sold on flights operated by Sun Country Airlines, the Minnesota-based brewery will make available select Surly offerings at Minnesota Timberwolves home games.