Beer is still being made at Ocean City Brewing Company on 56th Street, but a sign outside that reads "Ironweed Ale Werks" suggests the business will soon be under new ownership.

Inside the mammoth brewery, a menu touted several beers under the new name, including IPAs like Mandarin Sunset, Iron Rye, Harlequin and Sharksbreath, and several wheat ales, a blonde ale and a raspberry sour. Most of the beers are above 6 percent ABV.

Because the transitions in ownership and liquor license are not complete, company officials declined to comment on the record, but the brewery is currently open and its Facebook page stated it would debut next summer.

Ironweed Ale Werks also made its presence known at Brews on the Beach in Ocean City last month. Its logo is designed with the purple plant it was named after.

As of Oct. 1, Ironweed has yet to apply for a liquor license through Worcester County, according to liquor license administrator April Payne.

OC Brewing opened its doors in the summer of 2014 on 56th Street under the ownership of Joshua Shores.

The restaurant served American pub food like gourmet burgers and flatbread pizzas, while the brewery and tasting room made up the back of the 17,400 square foot facility.

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OC Brewing was rocked by a scandal when Shores was sentenced to five years in prison last year for a $2.5 million wire fraud scheme involving a separate string of companies.

Prosecutors argued that between 2008 and 2013, Shores sold counterfeit sports jerseys from China, outfitting them with forged autographs and fake certificates of authenticity.

Shores, 44 at the time of his sentencing, had pleaded guilty to the crime in February 2016 and agreed to pay $500,000 in restitution and was ordered to forfeit $140,000 in assets and pay a $5,000 fine.

Shores said in a statement last year that the crime he committed then had "no connection to the current operations of the Ocean City Brewing Company."

During the case, his mother, Donna Shores, had taken over as owner of the company, which had expanded to two more locations in Maryland. Those locations are not believed to be part of current activity at the original site in Ocean City.

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