Another craft brewer is in Anheuser-Busch’s legal sights. The largest brewery in the United States may soon challenge a trademark attempt by Left Hand Brewing.
Left Hand was the first U.S. based brewery to launch a nitrogen based, bottled beer. (You’ve seen Guinness cans and bottles before.) It took brewery founder Eric Wallace a good chunk of change to develop the technology. Left Hand Nitro Milk Stout debuted at the Great American Beer Festival in 2011.
Left Hand has applied for a trademark for NITRO as it pertains to a beer name. This trademark of course doesn’t prevent any brewery from creating nitro beers, just using similar name branding.
AB InBev has received an extension in regards to the trademark, and have until June, 2014 to decide to challenge.
