USA, MA: Oliver Brewing Company to open a new brewery in East Baltimore on November 6

According to Baltimore Magazine’s report, Oliver Brewing Company is preparing its new headquarters, in a former ice-storage facility, which opens in East Baltimore the weekend of November 6-8 with live bands, food trucks, and exclusive beers.

The new facility - necessitated by growing demand for the microbrewery’s English-style cask ales, stouts, and porters - will more than double Oliver Brewing Company’s production capacity, and give it something increasingly essential for success: a public brewery with a taproom, retail area, and regular tours.

“This is the next step for us,” says co-owner Justin Dvorkin, who purchased the label with his business partner, Donald Kelly, in 2008. Until now, all brewing for the company - which includes Pratt Street Ale House, The Ale House Columbia, and Park Tavern in Severna Park - was done in the cellar at Pratt Street Ale House, where the label started in 1993.

“[At Pratt Street] we get a lot of [out-of-towners] asking, ‘Do you do tours?’” Dvorkin explains. “It wasn’t really feasible. Now we can show off.”

And he isn’t worried about the brewery’s off-the-beaten-path location.

“We’re a little bit of an offshoot, but in reality, it’s 10 minutes from Canton,” Dvorkin notes. “We want to give people a reason to go this way.”

25 September, 2015