Boulder’s The Kettle & Stone Brewing To Rename

But now the 10-month-old brewery will be changing its name after Escondido, Calif.-based Stone Brewing Co. gave it a difficult choice: change the name or agree not to expand.

"This is my business," Huber said. "I don’t want to limit the growth. You work your hide off to get everything in place, and it comes down to a noun."

Huber and his business partners Marty Lettow and Sanjiv Patel said they got the phone call from a Stone executive in September when they were still dealing with the aftermath of the floods. The voice on the other end said he had a cease-and-desist letter sitting on his desk, ready to send.
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