USA: Boston Beer Company completes major brewery expansion

The Boston Beer Company has completed a $6.5 million expansion of its main Cincinnati brewery that will now be able to produce about two-thirds of the beer brewed by the entire company, Datamonitor posted on November 22.

The brewery renovation includes the addition of new lagering and aging tanks in a new storage cellar, and two new copper brew kettles, custom made for Samuel Adams by Vendome Copper & Brass of Louisville, Kentucky.

Founder Jim Koch will name the two new copper brew kettles for his father, Charles Koch, and for his great-great grandfather, Louis Koch. "As far as I know, naming tanks is quite common in the spirits business, but I've not heard of breweries that name their tanks to honor those brewers who have gone before," Koch said.

25 November, 2005