Local Only

Not on the labels, but on the COLA application (they are also being brewed under Yards' permit):

 

I personally am not surprised that Cape May is brewing their beers at other breweries (FX Matt, now Yards). I had the pleasure of taking a tour of the brewery last September and their brewery was already fully occupied with Fermenters and I was told that during the summer months they are unable to keep up with their existing demand (and they had hopes of further expanding into portions of North Jersey). They would either have to construct another (or expand existing) facility or what they decided to do was the contract brewing route. I applaud that they selected two high quality contract breweries to produce their beers.

Cheers!

 

Jack, since I showed you around in September we've since added a massive new canning line that took up the last little bit of free space we had, and in another nook that housed some pallet racking we installed a pilot brewery area, so yeah - as you noted we just didn't have the space for this summer's surges, especially growing in some new markets.
The contracting at FX Matt came about because we wanted to get our fan favorite cranberry shandy The Bog out to market, and without the ability to pasteurize we couldn't safely can that product off. We searched all over the mid-atlantic and northeast for a contract partner to do the Bog, and FX Matt was the clear answer, and they've been really awesome. I've been up for most of the brews and packaging runs, and I gotta say their facility is so incredibly loaded with brewing history that it's just a sight to behold - it's really like Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. We didn't make a huge announcement about it, but late fall/early winter when we launched Cape Beverage, our distribution company, we mentioned contracting at FX Matt as the reason for the launch, as legally we couldn't self-distribute what we weren't producing in house. So instead of having another distribution company carry one or two brands for us, it made more sense to just split off that arm of the company.
The Yards thing came about a little more casually. Tom Kehoe was down in our area in the late fall and decided to just pop in and say hello. I showed him around the brewery and mentioned that if they had any extra capacity while growing into the new space that we're probably going to need some help this summer with capacity constraints, and afterwards he and one of the CMBC owners kept the conversation going and next thing you know I'm up at Yards brewing 100 BBL batches of our Lager on their stunningly beautiful state of the art brewhouse. They're been awesome and I've thoroughly enjoyed the handful of days I've been up there for brewing, filtering, and packaging so far.

 

I enjoy the current landscape better, but if limited to locals I would only be slightly worse off. pFriem is within the 100 mile limit, and I consider it one of two non-debateable world-class breweries in Oregon. Add in the 30-ish local breweries which include Sunriver, Ale Apothecary, and Boneyard, and I’m pretty well set.

 

Just about everything from Great Lakes Brewing Company. Hoppin' Frog's B.O.R.I.S. The Crusher Imperial Stout as well as other beers from Hoppin' Frog, Willoughby Brewing Company's Peanut Butter Cup Coffee Porter, Thirsty Dog's Old Leg Humper Porter, Barktoberfest, and 12 Dogs Of Christmas. To name a few.

Eric