Massachussets-based Treehouse Brewing Company is constructing a new brewery in Charlton, UK, as part of its expansion strategy.
The new brewery, which is slated to open in 2017, will be spread across 45,000ft2 featuring a modern 50 BBL brewhouse, a 5,000ft2 retail space where the company plans to sell products directly from the brewery.
The retail space will offer can sales, bottle sales, and full pours which will be offered at least five days a week, and a large outdoor pavilion.
The open space vista will overlook a tank farm of 60, 120, and 240 BBL fermenters flanked by a natural light-drenched brewhouse.
Initially, the brewery will house 30,000 barrels of cellar capacity and plans to extend up to 50,000 barrels of cellar space by the end of its first operational year.
On its website, the company states: "The intent of the new brewery is to make our beer better than ever, vastly expand our range of offerings, make our core offerings more readily available, and to create a central gathering place of kinship and camaraderie for beer enthusiasts."
Austin Design has been awarded the job of designing the brewery.
The company said: "It will be entirely new construction on a parcelof land that is owned by us. This will afford us creative control of the property now and hopefully very far into the future."
The company plans to continue full operations at its Monson facility until 2017, when the new brewery becomes operational and ready to scale, refine and preserve the original content of beers.
Following this, Treehouse intends to wind down major retail operations and allot that place for special projects. The company claims to have around 10,000 sft to age, condition, blend, and refine both clean oak projects and mixed fermentation creations.
The existing 30 BBL brewhouse along with several 30 BBL tanks for wort creation will continue to function. It will be treated as a hub where Tree House creative expression, experimentation, and exploration activities would take place.
The company's existing Wild Goose canning line, a bottling line, and a dedicated bottle conditioning bottling line will also continue to be operational.
Regarding the financing of this expansion, the company stated: "We have sold precisely no equity to fund this expansion and creative control of our beer resides completely in our hands."
Image: TreeHouse Brewery begins construction of its new brewery. Photo: Courtesy of TreeHouse Brewing Company.
