"Mac and Jacks — pronounced as one word, “macnjax,” if you’re ordering the brewery’s flagship African Amber at a bar — has been sold to a local investment company that owns several wine companies, the Seattle Times reports this week. The buyer, Ackley Brands, is a relatively new company, founded in 2016, that owns several wine brands in Washington and Oregon. This is the first beer brand that Ackley is buying, though the company president Brandon Ackley said that it might make more moves into the beer market. The price of the sale wasn’t disclosed. Co-owner Mac Rankin told the Times that he and fellow co-owner Jack Schropp approached Ackley about buying their 30-year-old brewery because they “wanted to have a little bit more structure from the management side of our business,” and also wanted financial flexibility in the event that a zoning change forces them to move their operations. Not much is likely to change for Mac and Jacks drinkers. Rankin and Schropp are staying on for the next year to help with the transition, and Ackley told the Times that he intends to keep the brewery’s 25 employees." - Harry Cheadle
