Sweetwater Expanding from 100,000bbl to 500,000bbl
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Sweetwater Brewing is expanding their capacity from 100,000bbl to 500,00bbl by this fall:
Atlanta’s SweetWater Brewing Co. said Tuesday that it expects to complete by this fall a yearlong, three-phase expansion project that will increase its brewing capacity from 100,000 barrels a year to 500,000.
The regional craft brewer began an expansion in July of its 26,000-square-foot facility in Midtown, where the 15-year-old company has been located since 2004. SweetWater bought an adjacent building with plans to grow into a 115,000-square-foot plant that eventually will include 14 new 1,000-barrel fermentation tanks and a new 250-barrel brew house.
The expansion will allow SweetWater to push its distribution boundaries farther in the Southeast. It currently distributes in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. It plans to move deeper into Florida and Tennessee, and move into Virginia.
The project’s first phase includes an expanded bottling and packaging hall, a keg line, a quality assurance lab, a machine shop, corporate office space, conference rooms, a tasting area, a rooftop deck and a public events space.
Full details from the Atlanta Constitution Journal HERE
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