SweetWater Brewing Company is reportedly making moves for an initial public offering, per Reuters. If the Atlanta-based brewer follows through with a public debut, it would join a short list of public craft breweries in the U.S., including Boston Beer and Craft Brew Alliance.

We didn’t plan it, but today’s issue happens to have a theme: Craft (and “co,” if you’d like to call it that) is continuing to find new sidewalk cracks through which to grow. Often they’re in under-indexing markets. Sometimes they’re in already developed ones. Sometimes it happens with drinks that aren’t even “textbook” beer.

We chatted with Odell’s Wynne Odell this afternoon on the aftermath of the new shared ownership announcement they made last night. Responses have been “overwhelmingly positive.”

It’s good to know that someone had a good July 4. Gambrinus marketing chief Charlie Paulette clued CBD in on year to date trends for their roughly 600,000-barrel company, which Shiner headlines.

So now we know the next deal among the many more that are rumored to occur in 2015’s last half: The Firestone/Duvel combination.

Which brewery can claim the fast-growing and turning SKU in grocery? That would be Founders, and their 15-pack cans of All Day IPA (at least according to data the 52 weeks to 5/17 in IRI, among top 20 breweries by dollar sales).

It’s late, but the way the Twittersphere is these days, if you’re up, you’re about to hear anyway: Duvel Moortgat and Firestone Walker have just announced a deal.

Pabst chief Eugene Kashper has previously hinted at the brewer’s return to Milwaukee. Now, after a 20-year hiatus, Pabst Brewing Co. is finally making its way back home to its original location. The company will reportedly invest “roughly $3 million to $5 million” to redevelop a building in the old Pabst brewery complex, per Journal Sentinel.

We’d heard the rumors, and now, the confirmation: Ninkasi will hit Dallas-Fort Worth September 14 with Andrews Distributing. Total Domination IPA, Tricerahops IPA, Dawn of the Red and additional seasonals specialities will enter the market first.

Last week New Belgium sales chief Joe Menetre gave BBD the low-down on their half-year trends. “We’re basically having the year we expected,” said Joe. Through the middle of the year they’re “pretty flat as a brewery.” That’s due to tough comps: Their off-premise chain business was up more than 50% through this time last year.

Most of the time we don’t know a craft brewery is up for sale until, well, it’s sold. (Often we have an idea of who might be putting their business on the market but sellers will rarely admit it, for good reason.) So it’s quite fascinating to see Yakima Craft Brewing chief Jeff Winn essentially nail down a “for sale” sign at the front of his brewery.

As you know, brewers faced a tall task in gathering a litany of info for restaurants that carried their beer by December. Brewers were subjected to this undertaking in wake of the Food and Drug Administration’s new menu labeling requirements [see CBD 05-18-2015].

One of Colorado’s oldest microbreweries has sold a majority interest to a Denver-based private investor. The 25-year-old Durango Brewing Co. executed the deal back in January but the name of the investor as well as the price of the sale remains a mystery, per Durango Herald.

Recall that Arizona Beer and Cider Co. is a new Phoenix-based craft distributor owned by the Ebel brothers, who started Two Brothers Brewing Company out of Warrenville, Illinois. Last fall, we reported that their new distributorship would bring Smuttynose, Two Brothers, Colorado Cider Company and others (including many ciders) to the area [see CBD 11-07-2014 ]. They also announced a brewery, Two Brothers Tap House & Brewery in Old Town Scottsdale, set to open early this year.

Beer industry vet Karl Ockert may know beer and the state of Oregon like the back of his hand. But even with his 30-plus years of experience in the beer biz, Karl believes still has some learning to do at his new position with Deschutes Brewery.