Bell’s Brewery to sell to Japanese beer company Kirin, to be operated by New Belgium
Michigan’s Bell’s Brewery, which has forged some of Chicago’s deepest craft beer roots since launching in the 1980s, has agreed to be sold to Australian beer company Lion and its parent, Japanese beer giant Kirin.
Bell’s will be operated under New Belgium Brewing of Fort Collins, Colorado, which sold to Kirin in 2019.
Bell’s founder Larry Bell, a Park Forest native who splits time between Chicago and
