E-Malt.com News article: USA, AL: Goat Island Brewing to open as Cullman's first brewery in January

Cullman will get its first brewery early next year, AL.com reported on September 16.

Partners Mike Mullaney, John Dean, Gery Teichmiller and Brad Glenn are working to open Goat Island Brewing in a 10,000 square feet location at 1646 John H Cooper Drive SE in Cullman.

The group is made up of brewers from the now defunct Blue Moose Cafe, Cullman's first and only brewpub.

The group still needs to get federal and state permits, but hopes to be up and running in January. The taproom portion of the brewery will be about 2,200 square feet.

The name is in reference to Goat Island on Smith Lake.

"We all grew up on Smith Lake, everybody in Cullman knows about Goat Island," Mullaney said.

The brewery is starting with three beers for distribution: the Palomino Pale Ale (named for a historic Palomino Motel and Restaurant), the vanilla bourbon porter and the Richter's Pilsner.

Dean had an insurance business and a client who collected Cullman memorabilia. The client had a photograph with writing in German and English - it turned out to be written by William Richter, an ancestor of Mullaney's wife - and it was a beer recipe.

"It's a really delicious German Pilsner," Mullaney said.

So they brewed the recipe as close to the original one as possible.


18 September, 2015