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The Lagunitas Brewing Company is a brewery founded in 1993 in Lagunitas, California, The company is half-owned by Heineken International.〔John Kell, ("Heineken buys 50% stake in craft brewer Lagunitas" )''Fortune'', September 10, 2015〕 The brewery is known for iconoclastic interpretations of traditional beer styles, and irreverent descriptive text and stories on its packaging. The company was the fifth top selling craft brewery in the US in 2014. ==History== The brewery was founded in 1993 by Tony Magee in Lagunitas, California and moved a year later to nearby Petaluma, California when they quickly outgrew their original rural West Marin location.〔 〕 Since the mid-2000s, Lagunitas has been one of the fastest-growing craft breweries in the United States, increasing from 27,000 barrels in 2004〔Digitale, Robert. (Lagunitas Brewing undertakes big expansion ). ''The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa)''. March 20, 2011. Retrieved 2011-3-21.〕 to 106,000 barrels in 2010.〔Quackenbush, Jeff. (Lagunitas plans $9.5 million expansion ) ''The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa)''. March 15, 2011. Retrieved 2011-5-18.〕 In March of 2011, the company had 92 employees with distribution in 32 states.〔 The brewery announced a $9.5 million expansion slated to begin early 2012 which increased its brewing capacity to 600,000 barrels.〔 On April 9, 2012, Lagunitas announced plans for a new Chicago-based brewery equipped with a 250 barrel brew house which will also have a 600,000 barrel capacity. In May 2012 it was announced that owner Tony Magee had signed a lease for a location in the city's Douglas Park neighborhood in North Lawndale, "that will put him in a space owned by film studio Cinespace...for at least 20 years." The Chicago brewery started producing beer on April 18, 2014, and opened an on-premises taproom a few months thereafter.〔Hirst, Ellen Jean (April 18, 2014). ("Lagunitas Brewery Officially Opens Chicago Operation" ), ''Chicago Tribune''. Retrieved April 18, 2014.〕 A third brewery is being built in Azusa CA to be in full production by spring of 2017. This brewery will have an ultimate productive brewing capacity of 1,900,000 barrels. On September 8th, 2015, Lagunitas announced that Heineken International would acquire a 50% stake in the company to help it expand its operations globally.〔John Kell, ("Heineken buys 50% stake in craft brewer Lagunitas" ), ''Fortune'', September 10, 2015〕 As part of the deal Lagunitas will no longer be considered a craft brewery under the Brewers Association definition of 'craft' as Heineken's stake is greater than 25%. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lagunitas Brewing Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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