re: Brewery has stolen van returned in 42 minutes after offering free beer for its return

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It has been a wild three days with a lot of attention for our delivery van being stolen. We had no clue that it would only take 42 minutes to be located or that everyone in Charlotte would share it so much! We just hoped that offering a keg would be motivation to get people to help us find it.

This thing blew up and went big on the social inter-webs. We’re good at marketing but not that good. People have even asked us if we stole our own van! Yes, that would be hilarious but, we assure you that we couldn’t make this shite up. We had no idea that calling the police and posting it on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram would get this much attention. We didn’t have a lot of facts to give out on Monday, we have a video of three individuals stealing the van at 1AM on Monday morning. The police believe that they may have used the van to commit 10+ car break-ins in the area, before they abandoned it near Frazier Park. A lot of tips came in from fans of the brewery who lived in the area and saw the obvious neon van, proving it was probably not a good idea to steal a brightly colored well known brewery vehicle.

We wanted to thank all of you for helping us get our van back, by commenting, sharing and sending us tips via direct message. This week we will brew Van Theft Auto, when it releases, we will be selling it for 25 cents a pint (to cover taxes). That’s as close to a free keg party as we can do for you, Charlotte. Thank you so much for your help, Queen City, you guys are #supersleuths!

-Brad Shell

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