Beer Radar

I caught up with Christian Heim, the former brewer at Lancaster Brewing, in a phone conversation over the weekend for a column for Beer Advocate mag about one of his beers, and during our conversation he filled me in on his ouster from the brewery late last year. According to Heim, he and head sales guy John Franz, who both had skin in the brewery’s operation, had a falling out with the majority partners over the future growth of the brewery.

Heim said the crux of the dispute was a 100,000 square foot former Hanover Foods facility that he and Franz own. They wanted to move the brewery into the facility as part of a significant expansion; their partners - the Keares Restaurant Group - wanted to go in another direction, he said.

Heim said he and Franz are still pursuing plans to open a brewery in the building, which he described as ideal for a brewhouse. The story has a familiar (e.g. Yards/PBC) ring to it, so - like that split-up - maybe this will all work out for the best.

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