Big Lake’s Lupulin Brewing Buys Hydra Beer Company

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Minnesota brewer is buying a Sioux Falls brewery and taproom.

Lupulin Brewing Co. of Big Lake will acquire Hydra Beer Co. Purchase price was not disclosed. Lupulin recently partnered with Global Distributing to deliver its beer in South Dakota.

Chad Petit and Nick Murphy founded the business and opened the taproom in 2015. Lupulin says the purchase of Hydra will augment its distribution deal and deepen the company's roots in Sioux Falls.