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| Industry | Alcoholic beverage |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2002 |
| Founder | Mike Hinkley (CEO) Lisa Hinkley |
| Headquarters | , USA |
Key people | Erik Jensen (brewmaster) |
| Products | Beer |
Production output | 82,000 US barrels/year (2015) |
Number of employees | 199[1] |
| Parent | Tilray |
| Subsidiaries | Alpine Beer Company |
| Website | greenflashbrew.com |
Green Flash Brewing Company is an American craft brewery headquartered in the Mira Mesa neighborhood of San Diego, California, and founded in 2002. In early April 2018, the company sold to a group of investors, WC IPA LLC following a foreclosure by the company’s principal lender, Comerica Bank.[2]
Starting in 2013 it began expanding, seeking to cover all 50 US states and to export as well. It acquired another company, Alpine Beer Company, in 2014, and opened an East Coast brewery in 2016. However it financed the expansion with loans, and in the face of competition from local craft breweries it was not able to keep up with its payments. The company tried to shrink to control its costs but by April 2018 its lender foreclosed, and the company was sold to a private investor group.[2]
In January 2022 Green Flash was acquired by Tilray.[3]
- ^ Manufacturers[permanent dead link], San Diego Business Journal, April 1, 2016.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
SDUT2018-04was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Tilray Acquired Green Flash and Alpine for $5.1M; Dissolves Anheuser-Busch InBev JV". 10 January 2022.