Dry Dock Announces Expansion Plans

Dry Dock has announced plans to expand.  Details from CraftBeer:

Aurora, CO) — Dry Dock Brewing Company, winner of the 2009 Small Brewing Company of the Year award at the Great American Beer Festival, has found a location for its production facility. Owners Michelle and Kevin DeLange are under contract to purchase a 30,000 sq ft building in Aurora, Colorado. This second location will house a 4-vessel, 40 barrel brewhouse that will eventually be capable of producing more than 60,000 barrels of beer per year (one barrel is 31 U.S. gallons). Located just south of I-70 on Tower Road, the new facility should be producing beer by the end of the year, aiming to brew 12,000 barrels in the first year. Dry Dock plans to start by focusing its distribution in Colorado, and begin to consider out of state markets in 2014.

Currently, Dry Dock distributes in 22oz glass “bomber” bottles which it has been doing since January 2011. It also plans to package in aluminum cans in the new production facility. The canning line will be designed and fabricated by Wild Goose (Boulder, CO), a local can line manufacturer. “We will continue to produce the Double IPA, Bligh’s Barleywine and other seasonals in bombers while putting our Apricot Blonde, Hefeweizen, Amber and a hoppy beer in cans,” says Michelle DeLange. Dry Dock Brewing Co. also intends to offer champagne style bottles with cork/cage finish for barrel-aged and sour beers that are produced in later years.   Full details here.