{"id":742392,"date":"2026-04-21T05:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/742392\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T05:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:23:15","slug":"21st-amendment-brewery-revived-in-acquisition-by-philadelphia-beer-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/742392\/","title":{"rendered":"21st Amendment Brewery revived in acquisition by Philadelphia beer company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/21st-breewery.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">21st Amendment Brewery \u2013 a fixture of San Leandro for the past 25 years \u2013 will keep slinging suds in the Bay Area thanks to Philadelphia&#8217;s Evil Genius Beer Company. <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\"><strong>SAN LEANDRO, Calif.<\/strong> &#8211; 21st Amendment Brewery \u2013 a fixture of San Leandro for the past 25 years \u2013 will keep slinging suds in the Bay Area thanks to Philadelphia&#8217;s Evil Genius Beer Company.<\/p>\n<p>   A second chance <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The Evil Genius Beer Company acquired 21st Amendment Brewery\u2019s brand, recipes and distribution rights, opening the door for four of the company\u2019s most popular potables \u2013 &#8220;Hell or High Watermelon,&#8221; &#8220;Brew Free! or Die,&#8221; &#8220;Brew Free! or Die Blood Orange,&#8221; and &#8220;Amendment Lager&#8221; \u2013 to return in time for the summer.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Other recipes are scheduled to return in the coming weeks and months, and Evil Genius Beer Company advised fans to expect some new products, such as non-alcoholic versions of popular recipes, to come later in the year.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">&#8220;No rebrands, no recipe changes,&#8221; said Evil Genius Beer Company co-founder Luke Bowen. &#8220;We are making sure the beer people genuinely love stays in their fridges\u2013and ours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The 21st Amendment Brewery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/21st-amendment-brewery-san-leandro-closing-after-25-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">abruptly announced last September<\/a> that it would be closing its doors.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">One co-founder, Nico Freccia, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the decision was made partly due to the fact that sales dropped by 20% since 2021, despite the company being one of the top 50 brewers from 2016 to 2019, according to the brewers&#8217; association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Evil Genius Beer Company press release, previous KTVU reporting<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/san-leandro\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Leandro<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/lifestyle\/food-drink\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Food and Drink<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article 21st Amendment Brewery \u2013 a fixture of San Leandro for the past 25 years \u2013 will keep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":742393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[15172,5229,1582,8364,1165,50,1448,2830,1311,306083,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-742392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-alameda-county","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-food-drink","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-san-leandro","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116441029914404474","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}