Add DuClaw to the list of breweries that are either expanding or looking to expand. This from the BaltimoreSun:
DuClaw Brewing Company is still negotiating to purchase a 167,000-square-foot warehouse in Harford County for a future brewery, the company's president and the site's broker said Tuesday, a project that could make the brewer a major player in the regional craft beer market.
Though an original deal fell through, Dave Benfield, the craft brewer's president, is bullish on the project, contrary to an early published report in a local trade.
I'm extremely confident we'll be producing beer starting in 2013 out of the new facility," he said.
DuClaw and broker NAI KLNB had struck a deal last December for the former Collins and Aikman Auto Plastics plant in Harford County; financial terms have not been publicly discussed. The facility, abandoned for three years, was "critical" for DuClaw, as the company hit capacity last October at its longtime Abingdon brewery, which has been open since 2004.
"We're at 100 percent capacity. We're in six counties and that's about all I can do because of the space situation," Benfield said. "We can't make any more beer and there's a lot more demand." The company produces a little over 7,000 barrels a year.
The new facility would have been a financial boon for the budding company, allowing it to vastly expand annual production for itself - 60,000 barrels by 2015, according to Benfield. And also build up its contract-brewing business to make beer for other upstart craft brewers in the Mid-Atlantic. Full details here.
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