E-Malt.com News article: USA, CA: 21st Amendment to expand

Plans for a new, $21 mln production facility in San Leandro by San Francisco-based brewing company 21 st Amendment just got bigger, bizjournals.com reported on December, 15.

After breaking ground last May on 95,000 square feet at the former Kellogg Cereal factory, 21 st Amendment has signed a lease for an additional 58,648 square feet at the same location, according to real estate firm Cassidy Turley, which brokered the deal.

That brings the brewery's space at the site to 148,348 square feet.

21 st Amendment owners Nico Freccia and Shaun O'Sullivan said in May that the facility would open in phases, starting this year. The first phase of the opening will launch the production area for 21st Amendment, so that the company can move its brewing process from Minnesota back to the Bay Area.

Having started as a 12-barrel brewery and pub in San Francisco in 2000, the beer makers — known for brews such as South Park Blonde and Hell or High Watermelon Wheat — grew beyond their capacity there and then moved most of the production to Minnesota in 2008. However, the company has outgrown even that space, which has a capacity of about 60,000 brew barrels.

Now, 21st Amendment, which had $15 mln in 2013 sales, will be able to brew more beer in the Bay Area. President David Wilson said earlier this year that the San Leandro space will have an initial brewing capacity of 100,000 brew barrels with room to grow — likely to 300,000 barrels — putting it among the largest breweries in the Bay Area.


19 December, 2014