Background What options exist if you are a smaller brewery and have maximized your current output?  You can find the money to start an expensive expansion, you can utilize contract brewing where you find another brewing facility with some capacity available …

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Barley Mow Brewing – Unfortunately this Largo Brewery has closed. We visited the Barley Mow Brewing tavern in Largo. It has a dark, cozy tavern feel inside and a patio area where one can find occasional live music. They were …

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Background – Mad Beach Craft Brewing Brewers Matthew Powers and Alex Garcia opened Mad Beach Craft Brewing in October 2014. Matthews background began with wine making. Experience Mad Beach is a large brewpub on the second floor of a shopping area. A …

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Background – Mastry’s Brewing Co. Matthew Dahm, an entrepreneur, engineer and a Florida native had the idea of a brew pub in 2014. He eventually paired up with Micheil Mcelvey, to open the first craft brewery and tasting room on St. Pete …

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Background Wooden Robot is the brainchild of Dan Wade and Josh Patton. Dan is a seasoned brewmaster with a Master of Science in brewing from a Scotland University. While there, he toured Europe where he grew to love farmhouse ales. Josh …

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Background In 2010 Chris & Tara Goulet grew tired of the corporate grind and started formulating an idea of a brewpub.  Conor Robinson was identified as the head brew master. Birdsong Brewing started in 2011 with just two full-time employees. After …

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Background Phil Buchy and Newton Carver opened Legion Brewing in December 2015 in the former Brodt Music building.  Brodt Music produced sheet music.  Some good history here.  Much of the interior has design elements repurposed from materials used in the factory.  It is a cozy tavern …

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Background Heist Brewing founder Kurt Hogan opened the doors in 2012 in a historic Highland Park Mill No. 3 building, once home to the largest textile mill in Charlotte. The story goes that the Heist name was inspired by notorious 1930s …

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Background – Ponysaurus Brewing The story goes, Keil Jansen began brewing in an attic space above The Cookery owned by Nick Johnson. In 2015, Keil joined with David Baldwin and Nick Hawthorne-Johnson and opened Polysaursus Brewing.  The trio turned a former warehouse …

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Background Uli Bennewitz came to North Carolina in the early-1980s and decided to open a microbrewery similar to the ones he’d left behind in Bavaria. The only problem was that it was illegal in North Carolina for a brewery to …

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