Green Man: An Ex-Distributor Grows in Asheville

Dear Client: Remember the Green Man Brewery, the most recently announced partner for Brew Hub? It's grown from a 600 barrel brewpub facility five years ago to a roughly 8,000 packaging brewery sold in three states. By next year, five-year owner Dennis Thies believes they'll reach regional status, with the help of 10,000 barrels brewed at Brew Hub Lakeland. Dennis is a "Thies" as in "Thies Distributing," the 8 million case Florida distributor that sold to J.J. Taylor and Gold