Brewery Expansions

New Belgium Adds Experimental Brewing System

New Belgium Brewing (Fort Collins, CO) just unveiled a new 10-hectoliter brewing system. This new system will allow the brewery some small batch, experimental freedom. Small systems (like Troeg’s Scratch Series brewhouse) is easy way to mess around with ideas Continue Reading →

Atwater Brewery Adds Tanks [PIC]

Atwater Brewery is spending this week adding tank space. More tanks = more beer. Pictured above are at least 4-125 barrel tanks. That’s 15,000 more gallons of beer per time.

No More Locusts. Ale Asylum Opens

The new 45,000-square-foot brewery and tasting room is now officially open. The new digs were supposed to open on the 15th, but due to what the brewery calls “a locust infestation” it couldn’t.

This new expansion and brewery puts Ale Asylum Continue Reading →

Firestone Walker Christens New Brewhouse

Firestone Walker (Paso Robles, CA) has just christened their new brewhouse. It’s a 60 barrel brewhouse, tricked out to the owners specifications. 

The brewhouse was installed with extensive custom features made to meet Brynildson’s vision for maximizing beer quality, including his Continue Reading →

Cigar City Expanding Tasting Room

If you’ve ever been to Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) you’ll notice something immediately. The need for space. When there is an event, space gets limited VERY quickly. Good news on that front. The brewery is currently expanding the customer Continue Reading →

Posted in Beer News, Brewery Expansions, New Belgium

New Belgium Adds Experimental Brewing System

New Belgium Brewing (Fort Collins, CO) just unveiled a new 10-hectoliter brewing system. This new system will allow the brewery some small batch, experimental freedom. Small systems (like Troeg’s Scratch Series brewhouse) is easy way to mess around with ideas that could one day become big batch beers. 10 hectoliters is about 264 gallons at a time. New Belgium plans to not only experiment, but collaborate with local breweries and restaurants.
“This size system really frees us up to experiment and play around,” said New Belgium Brewing Assistant Brewmaster, Grady Hull. “There are so many new hop varietals in development and flavors to explore that this allows us to do so with minimal waste and maximum creative freedom.”
 
For those set up nerds, the experimental brewhouse has:  A two-vessel brewhouse with one mash/lauter vessel and one brew kettle/whirlpool. Four fermenters and two bright beer tanks for conditioning.

[PressRelease]

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Atwater Brewery, Brewery Expansions

Atwater Brewery Adds Tanks [PIC]

Atwater Brewery is spending this week adding tank space. More tanks = more beer. Pictured above are at least 4-125 barrel tanks. That’s 15,000 more gallons of beer per time.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Brewery Expansions, Yuengling

Yuengling Might Build New Brewery Outside Of PA

Yuengling, America’s largest American owned brewery is looking for a new brew space in the next two years. Dick Yuengling tells Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s Patriot-News that the home state of Pennsylvania might not be in it’s plans. Citing taxes, incentives and financial climate, another state is in the cards.

The brewery also operates a brewhouse in Tampa, Florida and wants to expand distribution westward in the future.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Ale Asylum, Brewery Expansions

No More Locusts. Ale Asylum Opens

The new 45,000-square-foot brewery and tasting room is now officially open. The new digs were supposed to open on the 15th, but due to what the brewery calls “a locust infestation” it couldn’t.

This new expansion and brewery puts Ale Asylum in the top 3 largest craft breweries in Wisconsin.

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Brewery Expansions, Firestone Walker Brewing

Firestone Walker Christens New Brewhouse

Firestone Walker (Paso Robles, CA) has just christened their new brewhouse. It’s a 60 barrel brewhouse, tricked out to the owners specifications. 

The brewhouse was installed with extensive custom features made to meet Brynildson’s vision for maximizing beer quality, including his personal modifications for milling, hop dosing, and kettle efficiency. The new brewhouse equipment allows Brynildson the ultimate flexibility for making every beer style imaginable. “By the time we got done with it, it essentially became a full-blown custom hot rod brewhouse,” Brynildson said.

[Press Release]

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Brewery Expansions, Cigar City Brewing

Cigar City Expanding Tasting Room

If you’ve ever been to Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) you’ll notice something immediately. The need for space. When there is an event, space gets limited VERY quickly. Good news on that front. The brewery is currently expanding the customer areas. The tasting room is doubling (maybe even tripling) the current size. Quick overview of the changes:

– Additional bar at the end of expanded tasting room, 20-24 NEW taps

– 2 cask engine additions

– Larger merchandise area

– Total of nearly 50 beers on tap at all times

– Completion: ETA November, 2012

Pics of the expansion available on CC’s website.

Read more: Cigar City Brewing

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Brewery Expansions, Distribution Expansion, Goose Island Brewing

Goose Island To Be In All 50 States By November

Goose Island (Chicago, IL) announced today that they will be available in all 50 states by November, 2012.  The brewery will strategize the brewing process like this:

312 Urban Wheat Ale, Honker’s Ale, Mild Winter, and India Pale Ale will be produced at Anheuser-Busch’s Ft. Collins, Colorado brewery.  Those beers are also, and will continue to be produced at Baldwinsville, New York plant and Redhook Brewery in New Hampshire.

As for the barrel aged and wild beers like Bourbon County Stout and Madame Rose? 2Those will continue to come from the Fulton Street location in Chicago, Illinois.

by Reid Ramsay