Craft Brewing and Distilling News for February 18, 2015
February 18, 2015•Fast-growing Revolution Brewing in Chicago is tripling its capacity with the addition of a 120-barrel brewhouse, several 800-barrel fermenters and other equipment, along with 15 new employees. The company, which produced over 50,000 barrels last year, will eventually expand its capacity to 300,000 barrels with the new equipment. Revolution was founded in 2010 as a brewpub and expanded to a 40,000-square-foot brewery in 2012. A year after that, Revolution doubled its capacity as it began distributing out of state. Its top-selling labels include the hoppy Anti-Hero, the Eugene Porter and a Belgian-style Bottom Up Wit. The brewer now has a workforce of 180.
•Knoxville, Tennessee-based craft beer retailer The Casual Pint will open its ninth location in the second quarter of this year. The Casual Pint’s latest outpost will be in Franklin, Tennessee, located on Hillsboro Road, marking its first store in the middle Tennessee region. The Casual Pint, which expects to open more stores looking ahead, offers more than 400 bottled local, domestic and international beers, as well as 22 rotating taps for growler fills and in-store consumption.
•Boston-based Trillium Brewing is expanding production capabilities with a 16,000-square-foot facility in Canton. The new brewery, which will operate in conjunction with Trillium’s existing facility in Boston’s Fort Point Channel neighborhood, will be fitted with a three-vessel 30-barrel brewing system and six 90-barrel fermenters, as well as an expanded barrel program. The two facilities will bring Trillium’s annual production capacity to about 10,000 barrels. The company says it will continue to self-distribute while focusing on increasing on- and off-premise accounts. Trillium’s lineup of craft beers includes Wake Robin Farmhouse Red Rye Ale (7.4% abv), Pot & Kettle Oatmeal Porter (7.5% abv), Fort Point Pale Ale (6.5% abv) and Trillium Farmhouse Ale (6.6% abv).
•Eugene, Oregon’s Ninkasi Brewing Company has promoted 25-year brewing industry veteran Per Nielsen to vice president of sales from his previous role as business development director. In his former position, which he began last May, Nielsen opened three new states for the brewery and also helped expand distribution within California. As vice president of sales for Ninkasi, Nielsen will lead the sales team covering the brewer’s eight-state footprint in the U.S., as well as Alberta and Vancouver, Canada.
Subscribe to Shanken News Daily’s free Email Newsletter, delivered to your inbox each morning.
Subscribe to Shanken News Daily’s Email Newsletter, delivered to your inbox each morning.Tagged : Ninkasi Brewing Company, Revolution Brewing, The Casual Pint, Trillium Brewing
