Craft Brewing and Distilling News for March 8, 2016

•St. Louis-based Brew Hub plans to break ground on a new $20 million brewing facility in Chesterfield, Missouri this year, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The project, which is still pending city approval, will comprise a 71,000-square-foot brewery with an annual capacity of 75,000 barrels, as well as a tasting room and outdoor beer garden. The facility is projected to be operational by 2017, with the tasting room slated to open by the end of 2016. Brew Hub’s Chesterfield site marks the second of five new facilities the contract brewer plans to open in the U.S., joining a 100,000-barrel, Lakeland, Florida-based brewery completed in 2014. Backed by private equity firm Yucaipa Cos., Brew Hub is reportedly eyeing existing breweries throughout Texas and the West Coast for its next expansion site.

•Bend, Oregon’s Crux Fermentation Project is launching two of its most popular beers in six-pack format for the first time. Since opening in 2012, Crux has distributed exclusively in 375-ml. and 500-ml. bottles. This month, however, noting demand in key markets like Bend, Corvallis, Portland, Tacoma and Seattle, the brewer is introducing its Crux Pilz in six-packs of 12-ounce cans and its Cast Out IPA in six-packs of 12-ounce bottles in retail outlets in Oregon and Washington.

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