Westword: HOW GREAT DIVIDE AND SAM ADAMS DECIDED NOT TO FIGHT OVER THE WHITEWATER BEER NAME

“Great Divide Brewing will bring back a new version of a very old beer this summer when it begins bottling and canning Whitewater Wheat, a hoppy wheat ale that will replace Heydey in its lineup. But the rollout will also speak as a quiet testament to how craft breweries can work out potential trademark disputes by talking things out. It’s an issue that continues to pester the industry and one that flared up recently when California’s Lagunitas Brewing threatened to sue fellow hoppy standard-bearer Sierra Nevada over the font it used for the words IPA on a label…” Read more from Westword.