[6][7][8] During the company's bankruptcy proceedings, 1518 Holdings, a Philadelphia-based investment firm, was initially prepared to purchase a 55% majority stake in the brewery.

[14] Following their second bankruptcy, Weyerbacher was purchased by Savant Beverages LLC, owned by Edwin Lozano, a former executive at Miller Brewing Company and a resident of Palmer Township.

[6] Lozano purchased the company in part because of their brand recognition as one of the pioneering craft beer producers in Pennsylvania, and the first in the Lehigh Valley region of the state.

Lozano is a friend of one of Colony Meadery's co-founders, Greg Heller-LaBelle, who used to run a craft beer blog in the Lehigh Valley before transitioning to mead in 2012.

[15][8] The new ownership group broke with the company's tradition at the brewery and began serving food in-house, which is catered by the nearby Marquee Kitchen.