USA, CA: Schooner’s Grille & Brewery looking for space to build production brewery

Antioch’s brewpub Schooner’s Grille & Brewery is currently looking for a space to build a production brewery and begin offering their award-winning beers in bottles, mercurynews.com reported on January 21.

The restaurant and brewery was purchased by new owners last May, and they planned from the beginning to start packaging the beer. But recently they decided to close the restaurant as of February 1, 2015.

So Schooner’s beer will likely be a little harder to find for a few months, while they transition from brewpub to production brewery.

Longtime brewer at Schooner’s, Craig Cauwels, said they hope to be brewing in a new space by mid-to-late summer. They may contract some beer during the downtime, but a final decision on that hasn’t been made yet, and will most likely be dependent upon how the search for a new building for the brewery is going. They expect to know more about potential sites for the brewery over the next month.

Cauwels also will be investing in the new brewery, and will become a partner in the venture.

23 January, 2015