Green Man Brewing (Asheville, NC) was founded in 1997 as a brewpub. Since then, the have grown into a 2,000 barrel a year brewery. That is the max that the current Buxton Avenue location can handle. A new location is Continue Reading →
Narragansett Brewery wants to build a new $7.5 Million dollar brewery in Providence, Rhode Island. In a video released today, the brewery has found a potential location for the build. The abandoned building is about 10,000 square foot, multi-floor building. Continue Reading →
Skull Coast Brewing (Fort Mill, SC) is not only expanding but also planning to start canning. Today, the brewery wired a deposit for a new 30bbl brewing system with 4 Fermenters, and a brite tank. In other big news Continue Reading →
Mendocino Brewing (Ukiah, CA) is adding fermenters today. The 27 year old brewery is available in almost all 50 states, even though the offerings varied.
What up in with Troeg’s in their new home in Hershey, PA? Here’s a rundown. Lots of Mad Elf, breaking down the old brewhouse, building up the new one…
On Brewhouse fabrication:
T1 (aka the Harrisburg brewhouse is no more and T2 Continue Reading →
For those of you that don’t watch what breweries are doing like it’s an episode of Days Of Our Lives, New Belgium Brewing is eyeing the east coast. Where is of course up in the air, but Philadelphia has emerged Continue Reading →
SweetWater Brewing (Atlanta, GA) is under going a pretty big expansion. The build will push their capacity to 400,000 barrels. BSJ got to tour the new facility last week. We’ve all been thinking it, so I asked The Big Kahuna, Continue Reading →
Green Man Brewing (Asheville, NC) was founded in 1997 as a brewpub. Since then, the have grown into a 2,000 barrel a year brewery. That is the max that the current Buxton Avenue location can handle. A new location is being built on Swannanoa Road, leaving the current location as a pilot brewery.
Expansion should be done by the end of summer, 2012.
Next up for Green Man is a bottling run of Dweller Imperial Stout in January. [Citizen-Times]
Narragansett Brewery wants to build a new $7.5 Million dollar brewery in Providence, Rhode Island. In a video released today, the brewery has found a potential location for the build. The abandoned building is about 10,000 square foot, multi-floor building. Adjacent to it is another building, double it’s size. Narragansett is still working on funds to build this new brewery. No word on when the build would begin. In other news, Cream Ale was just promoted to year round status.
Skull Coast Brewing (Fort Mill, SC) is not only expanding but also planning to start canning. Today, the brewery wired a deposit for a new 30bbl brewing system with 4 Fermenters, and a brite tank. In other big news for the small brewery – they will begin canning Maelstrom IPA, and Gallows Point Dead Mans Porter in 2012. By the looks of it, 12oz cans are the skull of choice.
Mendocino Brewing (Ukiah, CA) is adding fermenters today. The 27 year old brewery is available in almost all 50 states, even though the offerings varied.
What up in with Troeg’s in their new home in Hershey, PA? Here’s a rundown. Lots of Mad Elf, breaking down the old brewhouse, building up the new one…
On Brewhouse fabrication:
T1 (aka the Harrisburg brewhouse is no more and T2 (new brewhouse in Harrisburg) is coming together nicely. Amongst all of the engineers, welders, fabricators, electricians, riggers, etc the Trogner brothers are still finding time to brew at their new Hershey, PA facility. So far they have brewed 500 bbls of Hopback, 600 bbls of Troegenator, 300 bbls of Pale Ale, and nearly 1000 bbls of Mad Elf. They have also been able to brew three new small batches to join their Scratch Series on the new 15 bbl brewhouse they put in specifically for this series.
Brewing:
The first of these three was to be a Munich Helles honoring German friends From BrauKon. With the new brew system and increased mash efficiency and and a higher boil off than expected the starting gravity was much higher than anticipated. Add 3 additions of Hersbrucker hops and house lager yeast and you have Helles Bock due out in a couple of weeks.
Next up was a batch of Hopback used for yeast propagation.
About new Cocoa Porter:
The most recent batch was a cocoa porter. They lowered the starting gravity from previous choolate brews and toned down the burnt character by reducing the amount of black malt and roasted barley. A bit of lactose was added for sweetness and a mix of black and red cocoa powders were used. A reduced amount of Warrior and Cluster hops were added to keep bitterness down. It has since been moved to a conditioning tank where it is sitting on cocoa nibs and vanilla beans until Troegs brewers are pleased w the flavor and that is when it will be bottled.
[Troegs]
Check out this VID of the new brewery
For those of you that don’t watch what breweries are doing like it’s an episode of Days Of Our Lives, New Belgium Brewing is eyeing the east coast. Where is of course up in the air, but Philadelphia has emerged as a front runner. The brewery just expanded into Virginia, Maryland, and Washington D.C, Philly has a great beer culture, and is close to a lot of valuable logistics networks. A great spot for and east coast expansion.
In addition to Philly – Asheville, North Carolina is on the list. Which is also being targeted by Sierra Nevada for an east coast build. [Coloradoan]
SweetWater Brewing (Atlanta, GA) is under going a pretty big expansion. The build will push their capacity to 400,000 barrels. BSJ got to tour the new facility last week. We’ve all been thinking it, so I asked The Big Kahuna, Freddy Bensch “Are you going to can?” His answer -“We’ve built in space in the new building for a canning line, so.. Yes.”
This is awesome news of course. I made the mistake of thinking that 420 Pale would be the first to find an aluminum home. I was wrong. Freddy’s leaning towards IPA to kick off the canning line. Trust me, I’m ok with that. As exciting news as this is however, the timeline for SweetWater cans might not be until after Summer, 2012. Fingers crossed I can crack a can of SweetWater at the pool soon.
Other improvements:
Bottle conditioning: The brewery will start bottling condition soon (less O2. Fresher beer, better shelf life.)
Capacity: SW currently brews about 77,000 barrels a year. After – 400,000
New Office Space
New Event Space, separate from tasting room
New Rooftop Patio
Bigger Gift Shop
The brewery has no immediate plans to expand into new markets after the expansion. (But it’s not off the table of course.)
