E-Malt.com News article: USA, LA: Tin Roof Brewing Company expanding production capacity

Fans of Tin Roof Brewing Company will have more and more opportunities to taste the suds from Baton Rouge. Tin Roof is growing, and the most recent expansion puts its production capacity at 7,500 barrels annually, up from 5,000 last year, NOLA.com reported on January 24.

The expansion comes after an additional 6,000 square feet were added to the riverside brewery in recent months and will soon feature the tap room, according to co-founder William McGehee.

The increased production also means Tin Roof will soon be available in Jackson, Hattiesburg and coastal Mississippi. The beer was already available in Natchez, the hometown of both McGehee and fellow co-founder Charles Caldwell.

The additional square footage "is pretty much all being used for storage right now," McGehee said, because the minimum order on empty cans is 100,000. "That freed up a lot of space in the original brewery where we were storing cans. The new (equipment) has gone where the old cans were."

McGehee said Tin Roof's entire brewing process has been upgraded in the expansion.

Although designs for the new tap room are still in the early stages, McGehee said he hopes the space will be open to visitors within the next two months.

"We keep going back and forth because we have a weird space in here, but as soon as we pull the trigger on what design we want, construction will start immediately," McGehee said.

What is settled for the tap room is that it will offer Tin Roof's usual brews plus additional taps of other experimental beers.


31 January, 2014