E-Malt.com News article: USA, NC: Asheville’s Burial Beer Co. to expand greatly this summer

Asheville’s Burial Beer Co. will celebrate its first year in business by greatly expanding its production system this summer, Citizen-Times reported on June 6.

Burial, at 40 Collier Ave. on the South Slope, has ordered a 10-barrel brewing system that should be online by August, said Jessica Reiser, who owns and operates Burial with her husband Doug and their brewer partner Tim Gormley. Burial currently brews on a one-barrel system and produced just 150 barrels of beer in its first year, she said.

The location for the new brewing system has not yet been decided, she said. “There is such a great vibe here,” she said. “But we are still firming up the details. Our endgame is to have a 10-barrel system in downtown somewhere and a 30-barrel production facility outside of Asheville.”

Burial will mark its anniversary June 14 with the bottle release of a saison aged on apricots and plums, Gormley said. Only 200 bottles of the Anno Domini MMXIV saison will be sold.

Many of Asheville-Buncombe’s 17 breweries have announced expansions. Highland Brewing, the city’s first craft brewery, is spending $5 million on its expansion at 12 Old Charlotte Highway, with some work already underway, owner Oscar Wong said. Green Man on Buxton Avenue, not far from Burial, is spending $4 million on an expansion that will include a 17,000-square-foot building and a tasting room. The Thirsty Monk is looking to build a new brewery on Thompson Street along the Swannanoa River.

Asheville Brewing, 77 Coxe Ave., has ordered brewing equipment that will increase production by 30-35 percent to as much as 13,000 barrels beer annually, company president Mike Rangel said.

New Belgium is building the city’s biggest brewery along the French Broad River in West Asheville. Sierra Nevada’s big east coast brewery in Mills River in Henderson County is on pace to make 350,000 barrels of beer in its first year.


11 June, 2014