Kirin’s Lion Little World to Acquire New Belgium

Dear Client: Japanese giant brewer Kirin has been poking around the U.S. craft beer scene for the past few years, but now they’re officially knee deep in U.S. craft with the acquisition of the fourth largest craft brewer doing it here in the states. After taking a 24.5% stake in Brooklyn Brewery in 2016, and creating the framework for a craft business unit in the U.S. earlier this year through wholly owned subsidiary, Australasian company, Lion, with craft vet Simon