E-Malt.com News article: USA, NC: NoDa Brewing Co. to launch a new location in Charlotte on October 1

NoDa Brewing Co. is targeting an Oct. 1st opening. Construction is in high gear at the brewery’s new home, Charlotte Business Journal reported on August 31.

“It’s all coming together,” says Suzie Ford, who owns the brewery with her husband, Todd.

The Fords founded NoDa Brewing in 2011, but it has since outgrown its 11,400-square-foot home at 2229 N. Davidson St in Charlotte. They found a new facility — roughly a mile away — that nearly triples the size. Construction there began in June.

The 32,000-square-foot warehouse at 2921 N. Tryon St. is being transformed into the brewery’s new home at a price tag of roughly $8 million. NoDa Brewing has signed a long-term lease with Harris Development Group for the property, located on 3 acres near the intersection of Tryon and 32nd streets.

The new space is of key importance as NoDa Brewing faces increasing pressure to keep up with demand.

A 60-barrel brewhouse, up from a 15-barrel system currently, will increase production capacity. Four 240-barrel fermenting tanks — or roughly 8,000 gallons of capacity each — are now in place as are two additional brite tanks, used for carbonation.

NoDa Brewing expects to produce 14,000 barrels this year. That means NoDa Brewing is brewing multiple times each day starting at 4 a.m. “There’s not a day now where we don’t brew at least four times. It’s going to be nice to brew once and keep up and brew twice and feel ahead of the game,” said Suzie Ford.
She anticipates NoDa Brewing will begin brewing some test batches at the new facility by mid-September. Production won’t ramp up there until that process is fine-tuned because of the larger scale and balancing how additional automation affects the brewing process. “You really have to figure it out and learn all of the efficiencies of the system,” she says.

“Other pieces of the project are falling into place,” Ford says.


02 September, 2015