Just saw the last round of tweets from the brewery ... sounds promising. https://twitter.com/#!/lagunitasT/status/189554375939735552
Just read this on beerpulse! Yes! However, i hope to god i dont have to wait until q4 of 2013 to see their beers in Indiana.
Unless I'm mistaken (always a possibility), this is a totally different 250 bbl brewhouse, in addition to the one in the Petaluma expansion. That was my impression, anyway. Those guys are on fire, apparently. My hope is that the Sierra Nevada, New Belgium, and Lagunitas expansions mainly help lower the price of their products (as opposed to saturating the market even worse than it is now). Sierra Nevada's already at a great pricepoint, and the other two are close—but if those three and hopefully others soon were all doing $8 sixers at basically any store in the country, they'd be taking and even bigger share out of the BMC market, which is fine by me. The big three can forfeit some of their market share to the little three (relatively speaking) and they'd be just fine.
Tony Magee just announced via twitter, full production brewery in Chi town. Hell yes, West Coast love in the Windy City!
Cheaper for the brewery to ship, fresher beer, more local jobs, larger craft presence in Chicago, lower carbon footprint...
wow awesome news. this is about 6 blocks from my place. can't wait! i even drive by there everyday after work, my route.
Lot's more info in this article. Including... * The first mash at the Chicago brewery is expected to take place in Q4 of 2013. * Location * Story about the former movie studio on that site.
Yeah, they'd have access to all kinds of transportation channels. You can send anything anywhere from Chicago.
Out of curiosity, is it only West Coast breweries expanding east or are there also any East Coast/Midwest breweries expanding west? I can't think of any.
I wonder if we are in the beginning of a second new brewery arms race? IMO, that is the million dollar question.
Just to further this point, the mean center of population of the US is in Missouri, and the median center is in Indiana.
That tells only part of the story. But I think the other part (more difficult to depict graphically, I'd need a timeline) is the earlier emergence/resurgence of craft beer in the West. If it were otherwise (or even equal) I'd expect East Coast/Midwest breweries would have been distributed and grown somewhat in proportion to the higher population density there.
Huge props to Tony Magee for his hometown loyalty. To demonstrate my loyalty to Lagunitas, I promise to get hop stoopid much more frequently.
