Lagunitas To Open Brewery In Chicago!?!?!

That's awesome. Good for them. Glad to see a hometown brewery continue to do well.

 

Holy lord Sheeba, that's great.

 

check this photo of the space... place is freaking MASSIVE! WOW. I'm pretty pumped about this!

 

I hope they don't use any aluminum materials in the construction of that building.

 

It's going to be weird grabbing something brewed locally to drink and I'll have a Lagunitas in hand.

 

This is great news! Hopefully we get a Brewpub...

 

Higher production, expansion into more of the eastern half of the US.

 

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=41.85732,-87.692021&hl=en&num=1&t=h&z=16&source=gplus-ogsb

 

THIS.

 

Yeah, they'd have access to all kinds of transportation channels. You can send anything anywhere from Chicago.

 

Truthball.

 

Mother nature would be so proud...

 

Yes, they should replace any aluminum construction materials being used with glass ones...

 

Out of curiosity, is it only West Coast breweries expanding east or are there also any East Coast/Midwest breweries expanding west? I can't think of any.

 

I believe you are correct. In a way the micro brewery started again in CA, OR, and Wash.

 

This could be part of the reason (population density map of the US)

 

I wonder if we are in the beginning of a second new brewery arms race? IMO, that is the million dollar question.

 

Just to further this point, the mean center of population of the US is in Missouri, and the median center is in Indiana.

 

That tells only part of the story. But I think the other part (more difficult to depict graphically, I'd need a timeline) is the earlier emergence/resurgence of craft beer in the West. If it were otherwise (or even equal) I'd expect East Coast/Midwest breweries would have been distributed and grown somewhat in proportion to the higher population density there.

 

Huge props to Tony Magee for his hometown loyalty.

To demonstrate my loyalty to Lagunitas, I promise to get hop stoopid much more frequently.