Beer Baron: Ale Asylum will live on, co-founder says

Based on what I read last Friday, I thought this column would be an obituary for what was once, and perhaps still is, the most important brewery in Madison.

The news was stark: Ale Asylum was seeking a new owner and/or would close by October in a liquidation sale. A headline on the State Journal’s front-page story asked, “The end for a Madison original?” A question mark rarely carries so much rhetorical weight.

Ale Asylum is unquestionably a Madison institution. Founded in 2005 as Madison’s first production brewery (that is, not a brewpub) in generations, it was the author of Hopalicious, the city’s first smash hit of the hoppy era, among other successful beers.
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Ken Notes: We hope so!