Colorado-based brewer Denver Beer is planning to open a new production brewery and packaging facility in North Denver, with an aim to expand the business and increase sales of its Graham Cracker Porter.
Colorado-based brewer Denver Beer is planning to open a new production brewery and packaging facility in North Denver, with an aim to expand the business and increase sales of its Graham Cracker Porter.
The expansion will allow Denver to offer its beer in cans and 22oz bottles.
Denver Beer owners Patrick Crawford and Charlie Berger said they are buying a 48,000ft2 warehouse on three acres of land at 4455 Jason Street the Sunnyside neighbourhood.
The new facility will house four 60 barrel-fementers, a canning line from Wild Goose Engineering of Boulder, and a thirty-barrel brewing system, which will arrive in April 2014 and will initially brew around 5,000 barrels of beer per year.
The brewery will mainly focus on year-round and seasonal beers that will be packaged in bottles and cans and will be sold at liquor stores and bars by May or June 2014.
Berger said the brewery will offer its Graham Cracker Porter, Kaffir Lime Wheat and Hey! Pumpkin in canned six packs.
The brewery will initially distribute beers in Denver metro locations, which will be followed by other regions.
Crawford said the expansion will cost a couple of million dollars not including the property purchase and is being financed by a Small Business Administration loan, the brewery's second.
Berger said the new production brewery will allow Denver Beer to brew consistent beer it can package while freeing up its 7-barrel Platte Street operation for more experimentation - the same model Dry Dock Brewing took in opening a second brewery in Aurora.
Image: Graham Cracker Porter is bottled at 5.6% ABV. Photo courtesy of Denver Beer Co.