Nanobrewery Love

Ha! I should've known you'd beat me to mentioning 515 here.

 

My states first nano brewery is 1/4 mile from my house. http://www.flounderbrewing.com/age.php

 

Plan Bee - Fishkill, NY - wild sours
Burial Brewing - Asheville, NC
Grateful Hands - Cabot, VT (Posthumous shout out, Sorry to see this one go...loved their beer)

 

Wanderlust in Flagstaff Arizona is really good.

Pleasant House in Three Oaks Michigan - Outstanding English beer styles brewed on what is basically a homebrew system. Scotch egg was also great, so much so that we ordered another.

 

Yes we are a nano-brewery. When we started in June of 2010 we were brewing on a 1/2 bbl system, a year later we went to a 1.5 bbl system and right now we are brewing on a system that can knock out 2.5 bbls of a 25P beer or 4 bbl on a 17p beer. Last year we sold 164 bbls. This year its looking at about 240ish. Next year 300 which is our capacity.

In case you're wondering about the different size systems, I made them all myself and combined with all 3 I probably have $3k invested. The brewhaus is a piece of shit but we make good beer on it.

 

Cumberland Brews - Louisville, KY
Great Flood Brewing Company - Louisville, KY

 

Go to societe, http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/28994/ some of the best IPAs around. Draft only.

 

burley oak in Berlin,Md

 

Can't miss the $5 growler mondays! (or is it tuesday?) I haven't been back to Louisville since Great Flood opens. I'll be there in about a week though.

 

If you're in Anaheim noble brewery is a must also bottle logic is good, San Diego: societe a must! And rip current, LA - I like el segundo and beachwood bbq (awesome beer and bbq! Technically in long beach)

Not sure if any of these are nano but all small with a very small distribution foot print or draft only.

 

Below Grade Brewing here in Bend is in the brewer's basement, so thankfully he distributes 22s to a few shops in town. Great beer in 1bbl batches!

 

thanks for the edification!

 

Not sure if they're really a nano anymore or not though. We get the Melvin beers here in NW WA with some regularity. Mostly when the brewery crew comes to Mt. Baker to go snowboarding.

 

How did I not know about this?

 

In SF Bay:
Cellarmaker - Cool little brewery, great IPAs and their Porter, Coffee and Cigarettes is good!
Pacific Brewing Laboratory - Squid Ink is good stuff
Baeltane Brewing - Awesome, tiny, brewpub in Marin. They have great high grav, high ABV beers. The Frog That Ate the World DIPA is tasty.
Faction Brewing - Going to check out their brewpub in Alameda this weekend. I've had some of their IPAs on tap at other places and they have been pretty solid.

 

Cumberland still has $5 growler-fills on Mondays; Tuesdays they do pints for $2.75 all day; Thursday is cask beer (though I haven't been on a Thursday in quite a while so I'm not sure how the cask has been recently)

Great Flood has good prices too - $4 pints on all their house beers; $5 on guest taps; cans are $3. Check out their page on beer menus - the owners update it on a daily basis. They don't offer a food menu like Cumberland, but they encourage people to order-in from local restaurants which is nice (because there are a ton of good places to eat nearby)

 

Still n

Still nano! We just send you guys most of our dank ass shit because you appreciate it. Rocking like 300 plus bbls in 150 sq ft yo.
Wu Tang bitches
Diversify your hops

 

I need to explore nanobreweries out of the Carolinas but these are still really good.
Twin Leaf- Asheville, NC
Frog Level Brewing Company- Waynesville, NC
Southern Appalachian Brewery- Hendersonville, NC
Brevard Brewing Company- Brevard, NC
Olde Mecklenburg- Charlotte, NC
Fonta Flora- Morganton, NC
Grapes and Grains- Greenville, SC. Technically a homebrew shop but they have a brewery license.

 

No problem eh. Drink more beer!

 

Lots of nanos in small towns across wyoming/idaho but they usually don't advertise it. Really good beer in most of them because it moves so quick.
Diversify your hops