Who owns ALE ASYLUM?

ALE ASYLUM is owned by

KARBEN4 BREWING LLC

Ale Asylum is a beer brand that was created in 2005 in Madison, Wisconsin by Otto Dilba and Dean Coffey. Coffey was previously the brewmaster at Angelic Brewing Company for a decade, where he met Dilba, who was marketing director at Angelic. The two hit it off and began discussing the idea of starting a brewery together. Ale Asylum was originally located in a strip mall in Madison, but in 2012 moved to a larger facility that sat on 5 acres. However, the company was hit hard by the Covid pandemic, and in 2021 it announced it was looking for a buyer. Those efforts failed, and the following year it shut down.

In 2023, Karben4 Brewing purchased the intellectual property of Ale Asylum, which closed the prior year, with the intention of having Karben4 brew the beers. However, part-owner in that company Alex Evans, who had not been active in the company since 2020, sued the other owners Ryan and Zak Koga, alleging that the deal was improperly done outside of the corporate structure of Karben4, and that they misappropriated corporate opportunities to enrich themselves. The lawsuit is ongoing.

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