O’Fallon Brewery Releases New Brewery Details

has released plans to build a new 40,000-square-foot craft brewery in Maryland Heights, Mo. The new brewery will be located in St. Louis County just north of Westport Plaza and will have an annual brewing capacity of 25,000 beer barrels (344,500 cases), more than double the company’s current volume. The brewery will have room to expand to approximately 50,000 barrels (689,000 cases).

Construction of the new brewery will begin in April, and the facility will be fully operational by December 2014. The brewery will have a 50-barrel brew house as well as kegging and packaging lines. The facilities also will feature a 2,000-square-foot tasting room and brewery tours.

“The addition of the new O’Fallon brewery is a landmark achievement for our employees, who have worked tirelessly for the past 14 years to build the O’Fallon brand name, and it’s a tribute to craft beer drinkers in St. Louis, O’Fallon and throughout the Midwest who have supported us from the very beginning,” said Jim Gorczyca, O’Fallon’s president and CEO. “Of course, the brewery will allow O’Fallon to grow, but it also will serve as a showplace where consumers can meet our brewmasters and experience O’Fallon beers.”

The brewery is situated on 2.2 acres at 45 Progress Parkway in Maryland Heights, Mo. O’Fallon has retained HDA Architects of Chesterfield, Mo. to design the brewery and Musick Construction to build it. The new brewery will create approximately 20 new jobs including brewing, warehouse and retail positions. O’Fallon expects to start taking applications in September 2014.

The brewery tasting room will feature a wide variety of O’Fallon beers, as well as specialty beers and a light food menu. O’Fallon also will continue to operate its original brewery in O’Fallon, Mo.

“Every day our goal is to brew flavorful but approachable hand-crafted beer that will appeal to a wide audience,” said Gorczyca. “Our new brewery and tasting room will give craft beer drinkers a great experience and will allow us to have conversations with them to better understand what they want next from craft beer.”