Wayward Lane

Name

Wayward Lane

Website

https://waywardlane.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Craft Brewing

NAICS

Breweries (31212), Breweries (312120)

SIC

Malt Beverages (2082)

akta.pro primary industry

Microbreweries & Craft Breweries (THAFALAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Brewpubs & Taprooms (On-site Beer Service) (THAFALAA), Beer Brewing & Brands (CRADAIAA)

Keywords

• Craft beer production
• Farm brewery operations
• Wild ale brewing
• Oak-aged beer
• Taproom service

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel

Core offering

Wayward Lane Brewing produces a portfolio of craft beers — including IPAs, lagers, wild ales, and oak-aged beers — at its farm brewery. Finished beer is sold to consumers through an on-site taproom, with the brewery functioning as both production facility and point of sale.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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No

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Broad incumbents

• Stone Brewing: Stone Brewing is a broad craft incumbent with an IPA-led portfolio and taproom/visitor center operations, illustrating the kind of regional/national competitor a small craft brewery like Wayward Lane faces in wholesale channels.
• Brooklyn Brewery: Brooklyn Brewery is a broad craft incumbent producing a wide spectrum of styles from IPAs to lagers and specialty barrel-aged releases, relevant as a competitive reference point for portfolio breadth versus a small craft peer.
• Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Sierra Nevada is a large-scale craft incumbent producing IPAs, lagers, and seasonal oak-aged offerings with on-site taprooms, representing the scaled craft benchmark against which small producers like Wayward Lane compete.

Direct peers

• Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales: Jolly Pumpkin operates as a farm-based brewery specializing in wild and oak-aged sour ales with on-site taprooms, directly mirroring Wayward Lane's wild ale and oak-aged production focus.
• Other Half Brewing: Other Half is a craft brewery well known for heavily hopped IPAs and limited barrel-aged releases with taproom-focused sales, closely aligned with Wayward Lane's IPA and oak-aged segments.
• Tired Hands Brewing Company: Tired Hands is a small craft brewery with a broad range of IPAs, lagers, and saisons/wild ales distributed primarily through its taproom—closely mirroring Wayward Lane's small-team, multi-style, taproom-led model.
• Tree House Brewing Company: Tree House is a small, destination-focused craft brewery famous for IPAs with limited on-site distribution—a directly comparable scale and style profile to Wayward Lane.
• Hill Farmstead Brewery: Hill Farmstead is a Vermont farm brewery renowned for IPAs and oak-aged/wild ales with a destination taproom—the closest analog to Wayward Lane's farm-brewery model and multi-style portfolio.
• Russian River Brewing Company: Russian River is an independent craft brewer famous for IPAs, lagers, and oak-aged/wild ales (notably Pliny the Elder and Consecration), sharing Wayward Lane's full-spectrum style range and on-premise taproom emphasis.
• Trillium Brewing Company: Trillium brews a broad lineup including IPAs, lagers, and wild/sour ales with multiple taproom locations, overlapping Wayward Lane's portfolio breadth and on-premise model.

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Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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