by Jeroslyn JoVonn
October 4, 2025
Coverage Kings was a Black- and veteran-owned brewery.
Utah’s premier Black-owned brewery, Coverage Kings, has closed its doorways amid a courtroom battle with a landlord over $49,000 in unpaid lease.
The Black- and veteran-owned brewery made the unlucky announcement on Sept. 26, shortly after co-owner Sara Ridgel revealed the enterprise was months behind on lease, Axios studies. The owner, HMB Companions LLC, is in search of $49,304.67 in unpaid lease and issued an eviction discover on Sept. 10, requiring the brewery to vacate the premises inside three days.
Two weeks after issuing the eviction discover, HMB Companions filed a criticism within the third District Court docket accusing the bar of illegal detainer for failing to conform. Court docket paperwork additionally acknowledged that Coverage Kings nonetheless owed the owner almost $50,000.
“Unhappy information at this time, after combating, arguing, proposals, we nonetheless weren’t in a position to work it out with the owner,” a put up on its since-deleted Instagram web page learn. “PK is formally closed.”
Named after Chicago’s early Twentieth-century playing kingpins, Coverage Kings opened in Cedar Metropolis in 2018 earlier than transferring to Salt Lake Metropolis’s fashionable Central Ninth neighborhood in Could. Reflecting on the closure, the brewery acknowledged the challenges they anticipated when beginning the enterprise.
“After we began this journey … we knew it was a raffle,” the enterprise wrote. “After we made the selection to relocate as much as Salt Lake, we additionally knew it was a raffle. That’s the life of each small-business proprietor.”
The brewery acquired assist from The Violet Hour, an upcoming lesbian bar, which organized an internet fundraiser earlier this month to assist cowl authorized charges. Regardless of these efforts, Coverage Kings acknowledged of their put up that whereas they supposed to problem their landlord in courtroom, “we are able to’t keep open whereas we try this.”
“Due to the numerous who got here and cherished what we had for the time we had been right here,” the bar added.
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