"I don't know where the industry is going to end up," he says. "There's no shelf space and we're not drinking more beer. I had to be proactive and make a decision. Merging forces with DuClaw will help drive down costs with packaging production and allow us to work together to co-market each other."
The move is a drastic one for Demczuk, who helped found Peabody Heights as a brewery co-op in 2012 along with his business partners Hollis Albert and Patrick Beille. Raven will go from a small warehouse just north of Waverly with that brewed 12,000 total barrels last year to a massive space in an industrial park in Rosedale that brewed over double that amount.
"DuClaw planned for growth and they have the space," Demczuk says. "They have a modern facility and a lot of positive things going for the brewery itself. For us, it was important to stay in the state and few other breweries in Maryland could handle this."
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