Who owns NINKASI BREWING?
NINKASI BREWING is owned by
GREAT FRONTIER HOLDINGS
First Brewed
2006
Origin
Oregon, United States
Ninkasi Brewing was founded in 2006 in Springfield, Oregon by Jamie Floyd and Nikos Ridge. Floyd had been a brewer at Steelhead Brewery in Eugene, Oregon for 11 years, while Ridge had been working in finance in New York. When Ridge moved back to Oregon in 2004, the two were introduced to each other, and soon thereafter resolved to open a brewery together. The name Ninkasi comes from the ancient Sumerian goddess of brewing. The brewery’s first beers were brewed in a leased space in Springfield, but in 2007 the brewery moved to its current location in the Whiteaker neighborhood of Eugene.
In 2019, it was purchased by Legacy Breweries, a new company created with the concept of merging together a family of breweries. Soon thereafter, Legacy purchased Laurelwood Brewing out of Portland, and Aspen Brewing out of Colorado. But the following year, the original owners of Ninkasi purchased the company back. In 2023, they announced they were merging with Wings & Arrow (parent company of Ashland Hard Seltzer), which after the merger renamed to Great Frontier Holdings.
Popular Beers by this Brand
- Total Domination IPA
- Tricerahops Double IPA
- Prismatic Juicy IPA
- Megalodom Legendary IPA
- Beer Northwest Lager
- Dawn Of The Red India Red Ale
- Hazematic Hazy IPA
- Grapefruit Refresher
- Trailhead Tropical IPA
- Oatis Oatmeal Stout
- Eclipsosaurus Celestial IPA
- Ginger Honey Press
- Velocihoptor Guardian IPA
- Lager
- Mastodom Imperial Cold IPA
- Vanilla Oatis Oatmeal Stout
- Juicy Domination Tropical IPA
- Steady Orbit Grounded IPA
- Ground Control Imperial Stout
- Easy Way IPA
- Hop Cooler Citrus IPA
- Prismatic Lager Series
- Special Release Series
- Believer Double Red Ale
- Hazy Domination Hazy IPA
- First Rule India Pale Ale
- Critical Hit Barley Wine Ale
- Yours Truly Easy Drinking Ale
- Brightberry Raspberry Lime Ale
- Brightberry Raspberry Lime Gose
- Pacific Rain Northwest Pale Ale
- Heart And Science West Coast IPA
- Peach Maiden The Shade Summer IPA
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