Luke Johnson's Curious Brewery is set to expand after snapping up the brands of the Wild Beer Co brewery which collapsed last month.

Curious Brewery, which had been owned by wine firm Chapel Down until it was sold to the hospitality entrepreneur's Risk Capital Partners private equity firm in 2021, said it will double in size as a result of the deal.

Mark Crowther, chairman of Curious, said the move will bring "impressive distribution" in retail and hospitality as well as "a significant direct-to-consumer e-commerce operation."

The Wild Beer Co business was founded in 2012 and raised £1.8m through crowdfunding in a process which valued the firm at £25m in 2017, but entered administration last month blaming trading conditions.

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