Ska Distributing Adds Lone Tree Brewing To Southwest Portfolio

DURANGO, CO— Lone Tree Brew­ing Company’s col­lec­tion of canned beers are now avail­able in South­west Col­orado through dis­tri­b­u­tion part­ner Ska Distributing.

The friend­ship between these two Col­orado craft brew­eries began when they served togeth­er on the Col­orado Brew­ers Guild board of direc­tors, and stayed strong over the years through their com­mon­al­i­ty of a flag­ship Mex­i­can-style Lager. “John Win­ter of Lone Tree and I always bond­ed over sim­i­lar val­ues, beer styles like Mex­i­can-style Lagers,  and the fun atmos­phere of both of our brew­eries,” says Ska Brew­ing Sales & Mar­ket­ing Direc­tor Kris­ten Muraro. “When our Sales Rep Devin lived near (some say at) Lone Tree Brew­ing he was one of their reg­u­lars. It was his ini­tial idea to collaborate.”

In March of 2020, the team from Lone Tree trav­eled to Duran­go to brew a col­lab­o­ra­tion beer at Ska, and before they even made it home, Col­lab­o­ra­tion Fest was can­celled due to COVID-19. The pan­dem­ic might have stopped them from releas­ing this col­lab­o­ra­tion, but it couldn’t keep these brew­eries from con­tin­u­ing to work together.

“Fast for­ward to 2021 and we believe the col­lab­o­ra­tion was a suc­cess­ful fail­ure,” says Den­nis Stack, Lone Tree Brew­ing Sales & Mar­ket­ing Direc­tor. “The South­west region of Col­orado was the miss­ing piece of our dis­tri­b­u­tion foot­print and the rep­u­ta­tion Ska has built in the area made the deci­sion a no-brain­er— we admire what they do to build brands and enjoy work­ing with their great peo­ple. We are beyond excit­ed to explore this new chap­ter of dis­tri­b­u­tion with a great team behind the wheel.”

To cel­e­brate the part­ner­ship, Ska Brew­ing is tap­ping a guest keg of Lone Tree Vanil­la Caramel Amber. This red-hued ale is enhanced with vanil­la beans and caramel malt, with no addi­tion­al sug­ar added. It will be on draft at World Head­quar­ters while sup­plies last.

Six packs of Lone Tree IPA, Mex­i­can Lager, Straw­ber­ry Kiwi Blonde Ale, Red Ale, Peach Pale, Dou­ble IPA, and spring sea­son­al Pome­gran­ate Wit, as well as Lone Tree’s Brewer’s Bun­dle mixed 12-packs are now avail­able in Duran­go, Tel­luride, Ridg­way, and Ouray through Ska Dis­trib­ut­ing. Find Lone Tree beers at Skyridge Liquors, Macs Liquors, WJ Doyle, 6th Street Liquors, and Wag­on Wheel Liquors, with more to come. Accounts look­ing to pur­chase Lone Tree beer should con­tact Justin Crump at justin@skabrewing.com.

For more infor­ma­tion about Lone Tree Brew­ing Com­pa­ny, Ska Brew­ing, or this new dis­tri­b­u­tion part­ner­ship con­tact Emi­ly Hut­to at hutto@radcraftbeer.com.