Cleveland's Saucy Brew Works is expanding distribution in a new partnership with Heidelberg Distributing Co. — a harbinger of more growth to come in 2020.

The brewery now will ship beers to every county in Ohio, largely with Heidelberg, which effectively acquired accounts previously handled by Cavalier Distributing and expanded the footprint. Heidelberg will cover 79 Ohio counties. The remaining nine in the state will continue to be managed by House of LaRose.

"As we continue to grow, we needed to find a partner that was aligned with our goals in the state of Ohio," said Saucy co-founder and CEO Brent Zimmerman in a statement. "This new partnership with Heidelberg enables us to form deeper relationships with our clients across the state."

The brewery also does some distributing in North Carolina, although that's more of a passive market at this time.

Saucy said it will be expanding its number of retailers from 9,200 to more than 30,000.

Per a news release: Heidelberg's distribution of Saucy beers will include both draft and can offerings. Saucy's core beer options include: HABITUALE, a Kölsch-Style German Ale, B.F. HEFE, a Bavarian-Style Hefeweizen Ale, and IPA ASAP, an American India Pale Ale. Saucy's specialty brews, including seasonal favorite THREE HOS, as well as WHAT'S HIS NUTS, a Vanilla Stout with Coffee and Peanut Butter, UBER ASAP, a Blood Orange IPA, and more, also will be available at various industry retailers and events.

Update: Saucy brewmaster Eric Anderson clarified that B.F. HEFE is now a seasonal offering, while Love You, Bye (an imperial hazy IPA) has been moved into the core portfolio.

Saucy, founded in 2017, already plans some significant expansion projects slated to begin unfolding in 2020.

The company plans to open a new taproom in downtown Columbus in early 2020 that will be a shared space with a local coffee business that has yet to be announced.

A larger brewpub is in the offing for either late 2020 or early 2021 in Independence, off I-480 near the Topgolf facility being built there. That location will have more than 16,000 square feet of patio space alone. The land for that project has been acquired and construction should start in the next month or two, according to a Saucy spokesperson, who did not immediately have production numbers for 2018 or projections for 2019 or 2020.

In other distribution news, Hilltop Lager, a beer once produced by the now-defunct Four String Brewery Co. of Columbus, now is available again in Northeast Ohio after a resurgence earlier this summer.

Blake Squires, founder of software company Everstream, revived Hilltop after the unexpected closing of Four String in 2018. He had the popular beer brewed in Detroit originally in the wake of Four String's demise.

Hilltop Lager and Hilltop Lite — beers that were designed to rival Budweiser and Bud Lite — now are being shipped to the Cleveland, Akron, Canton and Youngstown areas through Superior Beverage of Glenwillow.

"We are so excited to launch this beer in the Northeast Ohio area," said Hilltop's Dan Cochran in a statement. "Central Ohio had an incredible response to this beer, and we hope that our fellow beer lovers in Cleveland, Akron, and the surrounding cities will feel the same way."

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