The Bruery is on many a craft beer aficionado's watch list, and now has plans to increase their scope and quality.
The Bruery, opened in 2008 in Orange County CA, is mainly renowned for their experimental beers and an often changing tap list. The new plans include retiring their 15-barrel brewhouse from the 1980's, and replacing it with a much more modernized semi-automate brew house.
The press release also states that they'll be instituting a new bottling line, which will increase their output. Being a smaller craft brewery, The Bruery has been known for limited runs of their products, and having a much more obscure and hard-to-find beer. With their new equipment, they'll be increasing their output to 20,000 bbls per year, or approximately 620 thousand gallons.
"The overall goal behind this expansion is to improve quality," says The Bruery founder Patrick Rue. "As part of that goal, we'll also be moving and expanding our lab space, as well as completely separating our sour/brett and clean beer production."
This is far from the place of Rue's humble origins, brewing beer on a stove in his kitchen while he was in law school. As many of the craft breweries have started in America, Rue is a home brewer at heart, and his love of the craft shows in his beer.
We can only hope that this development will increase the quantity, and not diminish the quality of The Bruery's final product.
Want to learn more about the expansion and the Bruery? Check out the video below, courtesy of YouTube.
