Latest Pipeworks Releases and Updates (2018)

I gotta agree that's a really weird caveat. No brewery is either top notch or second rate based on whether they try their hand at a style of beer (wild ales) or not. That's like saying Cantillon could be a top notch Belgium brewery but they won't be until they're putting out great barrel aged stouts.

 

Guys guys guys...walezbro.

 

You need to understand what kind of space and time is required to start a sour program. PWs is a growing company. I'd expect with all the fruit/spices they've been using in some of the most recent beers, sour beer is probably something they'll be interested in doing when they have the capacity to create some sours.

PS: PUMPED for hyper dog

 

Ummm...how many berliners has PW's done? While the Blue(cheese) Lady had that one bad batch, the others were good with the Flower Child being excellent IMO (that has been my favorite of the bunch). i know it's not a lambic/gueze/wild ale, but i'm not sure i'd want them using the yeast in the air at wabansia and western

 

I don't think these guys even #chicagobeerbro.

 

Will midsummer night be making its way to all of the regular accounts? Love me some apricots...

 

just saw it at Foremost Liquors in Arlington Heights

 

Well golly gee this is the best news. SOURS!!!!

Pipeworks Brewing plans new brewery, distributing beer in cans

By Josh Noel, Tribune Newspapers
5:38 p.m. CDT, July 24, 2014

Pipeworks Brewing, which has built a fervent following since its 2012 debut despite miniscule output, is planning to build a new brewery on the city's west side that will more than triple its production.

Brewery co-founder Gerrit Lewis said Thursday that he and partner Beejay Oslon have signed a 20-year lease on a 16,000-square-foot space at 3912 W. MacLean Ave., near Pulaski Road and Armitage Avenue. The new brewery will share a wall, and private patio, with Off Color Brewing, another small Chicago craft brewery.

Armed with a federal small business loan for "around $1 million," Lewis said, Pipeworks has ordered a 30-barrel brewing system that will allow it to increase production to about 6,000 barrels of beer in 2015. The brewery has already grown from making 430 barrels in 2012 to a projected 1,800 barrels this year.

The new beer will be used to meet the demand that Pipeworks has struggled to supply in Chicago, Lewis said, including a significant increase in draft distribution. Pipeworks also plans to package beer in four-packs of 16-ounce cans, as well as in 22-ounce bottles — its primary method of distribution so far — for its more adventurous recipes, Lewis said.

Pipeworks will can five year-round beers, Lewis said: Ninja vs. Unicorn (an imperial India pale ale), Close Encounter (a hoppy stout), Blood of the Unicorn (a hoppy red ale) and two new beers — a pale ale made with Mosaic hops and a lower alcohol Belgian-style beer. The four-packs will be priced between $9.99 and $11.99.

The new brewery, which should be operating by early 2015, includes an option on additional space that could boost it to 60,000 square feet, but Lewis said further expansion will be more deliberate. Pipeworks — named by Rate Beer as one of the world's top 100 breweries in 2013 and 2014 — has easily sold every drop of its production so far, and extending to 6,000 barrels of beer likely won't slow its sales.

After that, "You're competing hard," Lewis said. Chicago-area craft breweries including Half Acre and Solemn Oath have also announced significant expansions this year.

"Growth beyond that would have to happen organically," Lewis said. "If the beer continues to sell itself, we'll continue to make more of it. The moment we have to start competing to sell beer, that's when we know it's time to slow down. Hopefully that won't come for a long time."

Further expansion could include distribution in Colorado, Wisconsin, Indiana, New York and California, he said.

Pipeworks' current brewery, at 1675 N. Western Ave., will be dedicated to production of sour beers, Lewis said. The brewery also plans to take possession of a building adjacent to the original location that will become a shop selling Pipeworks beer, including growler fills.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/featu...ks-brewery-expansion-20140725,0,1420044.story

 

How about coming to west Michigan?!?!

 

Awesome news! Hope to see some more berliner wiesse in the interim till the sours come.

 

This is some damn exciting news! Can't wait to see what kind of stuff they come out with in the realm of sours.

 

Exciting news for an awesome brewery, I can't wait for 16oz cans and a place to fill growlers!

 

Cans going to kick ass..

 

Can we get that Pale in a bomber before it gets released in cans ?

 

You prefer paying higher price per ounce?

 

It's not about paying, I just would like to try it to build the anticipation.. And who the hell cares if you pay $2 more

 

Agreed on the $2. If I concerned myself with the prices of the beers I want to drink, I'd be missing out on some of the tastiest beers I've tried.

 

It would actually be quite more than $2. Assuming 9$ for a bomber and 9-10 for 4 pk of 16 oz cans. An equivalent price for the cans in bomber format is about $3.50 vs $9. $5.50 is a bit more than $2 but hey people can request whatever format they want. I'll wait for the cans myself.

 

Is there any truth to a Passion Fruit Abduction?

 

received my PW glassware today....looking better than I expected. Will get some good use today and through the weekend.