Lagunitas is owned by Heineken (the Netherlands, AEX: HEIA), which acquired the brand on 1 May 2017.[1][2] Lagunitas was founded in 1993 in Petaluma, California and was independent until 2017.
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Heineken N.V. Annual Report 2008 - acquisition of Scottish & Newcastle, 28 April 2008. Last checked .
Lagunitas is a Californian craft brewery founded in 1993 in Petaluma, known for its IPA and for irreverent labelling. Heineken bought half the business in 2015 and the remainder in 2017, a move that prompted debate about what counts as a craft brewery.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Heineken controls 29 brands on Brandtree, 29 of them in beverages.
The 62 brands in ale on Brandtree belong to 32 owners. The largest is Duvel Moortgat, with 7; Heineken has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Birrificio del Ducato | Duvel Moortgat | 🇧🇪 Belgium |
| Bishops Finger | Shepherd Neame | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Farsons Blue Label | Farsons | 🇲🇹 Malta |
| Franziskaner | AB InBev | 🇧🇪 Belgium |
| Avery Brewing Company | Mahou San Miguel | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| Fuller's London Pride | Asahi Group | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Dogfish Head | Boston Beer | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Belikin Stout | Bowen & Bowen | 🇧🇿 Belize |
Heineken is a publicly listed company headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1864. Brandtree records 29 brands under its control, and it is listed as AEX: HEIA.
Heineken was founded in Amsterdam in 1864 when Gerard Adriaan Heineken bought the Haystack brewery. It is the second-largest brewer in the world and remains family-influenced through Heineken Holding N.V.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Lagunitas among them.
Heineken took full ownership of the Californian craft brewer Lagunitas, having bought half in 2015. Craft brewers acquired by multinationals frequently lose shelf space in independent bottle shops as a result, a tension the sector still argues about.
The parent company of Lagunitas is Heineken, a publicly listed company headquartered in the Netherlands.
Lagunitas originated in the United States in 1993, but it is owned today by Heineken, which is headquartered in the Netherlands. So Lagunitas is an American-origin brand under Dutch ownership.
Heineken completed its acquisition of Lagunitas on 1 May 2017, after announcing the deal on 1 May 2017. The price was not disclosed.
Lagunitas was an independent company from its founding in 1993 in Petaluma, California until Heineken acquired it in 2017.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Lagunitas is still owned by Heineken. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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