Catawba Valley Brewing will be opening a “boutique” brewery in Asheville, North Carolina. The idea is to build a 7 barrel facility (that’s 210 gallons each batch) to better meet the demand by Asheville. I’m told no location has been Continue Reading →
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 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.
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. Continue Reading →
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 (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 →
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 →
Catawba Valley Brewing will be opening a “boutique” brewery in Asheville, North Carolina. The idea is to build a 7 barrel facility (that’s 210 gallons each batch) to better meet the demand by Asheville. I’m told no location has been decided.
In other Asheville related news, Craggie Brewing will close its doors on 12/1.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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