Nanobrewery List

27Aug2010

I call Uncle.

Ok guys, I can't keep up!

There are so many nano's spring in and out of existence, I'll leave it to the others to perform the maintenance. That's not to say I've become less interested...its just a testament to the fact that I've got my own operation occupying my limited daily hours, and others have done a bang up job. no need to duplicate the effort (there are certainly a whole bunch of sites aiming to do so, like this one, and more definitively, this one.)

But, in order to provide at least a little meat to my bowing out of the game update to this post, here are few nuggets for you, if you haven't come across them already.

A blog post from one of the models of nano-sucess, Lawson's Finest.

Here's a well written article on the subject over at top fermented (soon to be mystery brewing company. Yeah!)

Another recent blogpost on the topic from the fella at 'the new school',

and probably the best maintained list on the 'net these days is still Hess.

...and keep checking in here at the blog and www.trilliumbrewing.com for our own effort.

Cheers, JC

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25Feb2010 update:

Here is an January 2010 write-up/pontification of the nanobrewery concept on a blog called topfermented, replete with followup comments from many involved/interested in it.

Also, I've learned about a beer festival in Oregon that features (exclusively) 11 nanobreweries Friday-Sunday this weekend (February 26-28). Some participating breweries wouldn't qualify for my definition of nano, but then again, I sorta just made it up (under 3bbl systems, and non-brewpub) so that's not entirely their fault. They probably just haven't checked in on my blog yet.

It is their first, but if this ultra small brewery trend continues, I suspect we will see more and more of these pop up around the States, and possibly world-wide. I'll be sure to update my list, to purge those who seem to be inactive since I original assembled this, as well as add new ones (quite a few to add to Oregon, given this new festival).

...and keep your suggestions coming.

I'm starting this post to keep track of some nanobreweries (ie. generally speaking, 3bbl and under non brewpub commercially operating breweries) to watch their progress over time, to better understand their path to commercialization as well as gleen info for my own (potential) setup in the future.

If you know of a notable brewery that you think should be included in my list, please drop me a line.

California

Chapell Brewery

Scott chronicled his nanobrewery build out on HomeBrewTalk forum HERE, and doesn't have a website up yet, but he shared the following with me:

"My Nano is called "Chappell Brewery". I don't have a website because I'm only selling local and until business warrants it, I'm keeping costs down as much as possible. Right now I only sell taster trays and bottles. The local businesses that have showed an interest in my beer also just want bottles. I do it all. I make my own labels, brew the beer, bottle it, cap it and label it. Someday I'll upgrade to a bottling machine but, again, I'm keeping the overhead as low as possible.
Thanks again for the interest.
Scott"

Enegren Brewing Company

http://www.enegrenbrewing.com/

Healdsburg Brewing Company

http://www.healdsburgbeercompany.com/

Interview with KnowyourBrewer.com

http://www.knowyourbrewer.com/2010/04/05/kevin-mcgee-healdsburg-beer-company/

Hess Brewing Company

http://hessbrewing.blogspot.com/

Indiana

Great Crescent Brewery

http://www.gcbeer.com/

Iowa

Worth Brewing Company
http://www.worthbrewing.com/index.html

Massachusetts

Element Brewing Company

http://elementbeer.com/index.html

Lefty's Brewing Company

http://www.leftysbrew.com/

Maine

From the Facebook pictures, it looks like they're brewing on a 1bbl system, using Blichmann kettles, propane turkey frier burners and March pumps.

Maine Brewing Company

New Hampshire

Manchester Brewing

http://www.manchesterbrewing.com/

White Birch Brewing

http://www.whitebirchbrewing.com/Home.htm

New York

Barrier Brewing Company

http://www.barrierbrewing.com/Site/HOME.html

Blind Bat Brewery

http://blindbatbrewery.com/page2/page2.html

Pennsylvania

Breaker Brewing Company
http://www.breakerbrewingcompany.com/

Oregon

Ambacht

http://ambacht.us/

Beetje Brewing

http://blog.beetjebrewery.com

Heater Allen Brewing
http://www.heaterallen.com/Index.htm

Mt. Tabor Brewing

http://www.mttaborbrewing.com/

The guys who shot over some trillium pictures.

BrewPublic's visit to Mt. Tabor:

http://brewpublic.com/beer-releases/mt-tabor-brewing/

Upright Brewing

http://www.uprightbrewing.com/?page_id=253

Vertigo Brewing

http://www.vertigobrew.com/about.html

BrewPublic's visit to Vertigo:

http://brewpublic.com/beer-reviews/vertigo-continues-to-grow/

Washington

Epic Ales

http://www.epicales.com/index.html

Schooner Exact
http://www.schoonerexact.com/

Two Beers Brewery
http://www.twobeersbrewery.com/textpattern/home

Vermont

Lawson's Finest Liquids
http://www.lawsonsfinest.com/