Asheville, North Carolina-based Hi-Wire Brewing will open a new brewery and taproom in Cincinnati next year, located at the new Factory 52 development.
“Oops, we did it again,” Hi-Wire said in an Instagram post last week. “Coming fall 2022 to the Buckeye State: Hi-Wire Brewing Cincinnati!”
The new location is Hi-Wire’s first in Ohio and the brewery’s ninth taproom. Construction on the taproom has already begun.
Located in the former site of the U.S. Playing Card Company factory, Factory 52 is a 20-acre “city within a city” according to the project’s website. The development project aims to repurpose the former factory space for luxury apartments as well as “breweries, boutiques, a public market, a bark park, plenty of outdoor social spots, [and] creative office spaces.”
Hi-Wire’s space will feature a 5,800 sq. ft. main taproom with a 24-tap bar and an outdoor patio area. An additional 3,780 sq. ft. second level will feature a 12-tap bar and rooftop deck.
“This taproom will, of course, get plenty of big and colorful murals, our usual assortment of family-friendly games, and a rotating selection of beer including year-round offerings, seasonals, specialties, sour and wild ales, one-offs, and undistributed releases,” Hi-Wire continued in its post. “We can’t wait to join such an incredible, beer-loving community, and we’ll be counting the days until we can hang with all of you cool people up in Cincy next fall!”
Hi-Wire teased a ninth taproom in August when it announced its new brewery and taproom in Charlotte, North Carolina, scheduled to open in spring 2022. The Charlotte location will be Hi-Wire’s sixth North Carolina location, joining three locations in Asheville, as well as one in Durham and one in Wilmington. Its out-of-state taprooms are located in Knoxville, Tennessee and Louisville, Kentucky.
Foreign Objects Beer Company Hosts Taproom Grand Opening
Monroe, New York-based Foreign Objects Beer Company hosted a grand opening for its first brick-and-mortar flagship over the weekend.
Dubbed the “Nerve Center,” the tasting room features new and returning Foreign Objects beers on tap, as well as guest beers. The grand opening event featured several Tampa, Florida-based breweries on tap, including Angry Chair Brewing, BarrieHaus Beer Co., 7venth Sun Brewery, Cigar City Cider & Mead, Rock Brothers Brewing and Magnanimous Brewing, according to a press release.
“Finally opening the Foreign Objects Nerve Center is an expression of the will required to endure two straight years of a seemingly endless assault by obstacles hindering the financial, logistical, distribution, and regulatory aspects of Foreign Objects,” Steve D’Eva, Foreign Objects co-founder and head brewer, said in the release. “Opening this tasting room is an immense relief and confirmation that persistence of will is indeed the essence of creation.”
D’Eva launched Foreign Objects with Seattle-based Urban Family Brewing co-founders Sean Bowman And Tim Czarnetzki in November 2018. They started the company with the intent of being known for their liquid above brand image, “focused on creating intensely aromatic New-American Hoppy Ales, deep, rich imperial stouts, and subtle, earthy, unquestionably drinkable German ungespundet lagers,” D’Eva said in the release.
Cans of Foreign Object beer – which all feature original artwork by artists Molly Dolan or Ryan Vai – are distributed in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Virginia, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Denver.
Chuckanut Beer Hall Opens in Portland, Oregon
Burlington, Washington-based Chuckanut Brewery opened its P Nut Beer Hall in Portland, Oregon last week.
The beer hall, located in the Southeast Division neighborhood of Portland, is Chuckanut’s first own-premise location outside of its home state. It will join the existing South Nut brewery and taproom in Burlington.
P Nut features a large beer hall table as well as “bar height areas” and a small event space for private groups, according to a press release. It also has an outdoor space with picnic tables, with food trucks planned to start vending onsite in the coming months.
The beer hall menu includes a variety of Chuckanut beers, ciders and sodas, as well as pre-packaged snacks. Visitors will also be able to purchase kegs, growlers, cans and bottles of beer at the location.
Locust Cider To Open Gig Harbor Taproom
After transitioning its production headquarters from Woodinville, Washington to Gig Harbor, Washington, earlier this year, Locust Cider will open its Gig Harbor taproom Thursday.
The new taproom will feature 14 tap handles with Locus hard ciders, including its core Cold Pressed Apple, Vanilla Bean and Honey Pear, as well as returning seasonals and some limited small-batch rotationals. The taproom will also feature rotating guest beer taps from local breweries.
In early 2022, Locust will open up a year-round heated and covered outdoor seating area, and begin offering a full food menu, according to a press release. The cidery also hopes to add an experimental orchard next year to grow and test apple varieties, as well as host public and private events.
Locust moved production from Woodinville to its new location an hour south in Gig Harbor in June, taking over the former Heritage Distilling Company’s original flagship location.
The Gig Harbor taproom will be Locust’s 17th location, joining Washington taprooms in Woodinville, Redmond, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Vancouver, Spokane and Walla Walla, as well as three Colorado taprooms (Boulder, Fort Collins, and Lakewood), and one in Fort Worth, Texas.
Locust was founded in 2015 by brothers Jason and Patrick Spears. In addition to the cidery’s various taprooms, its cider can be purchased in cans throughout Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, California, Florida and Texas. Locust also offers direct-to-consumer shipping to 40 states.
Proceeds from all can sales, as well as Locust’s The Swarm club, are donated to the Hydrocephalus Association – a non-profit which funds research and educational resources related to the brain condition.
A raffle will also be held at the Gig Harbor grand opening event in support of the association.
Mother Earth Brew Co. Opens Second Idaho Location
Vista, California-headquartered Mother Earth Brew Co. is set to open a new taproom in Boise, Idaho on Friday, its second in the state.
“Coming to Boise has been a dream of ours since we landed in Idaho,” president and founder Daniel Love said in a post on the brewery’s website. “We knew we needed to be patient so we could find the right location, but also so that we could earn our place here and show natives that we can bring them a premium product in a premium location, and I think we managed to achieve that with our new Boise Tap House.”
The new location is in Boise’s River Myrtle neighborhood and near the Boise River. It features reclaimed wood and custom live-edge bar tops from Idaho-based Urban Forestry Products.
Mother Earth opened its Nampa, Idaho taproom in 2016. Last year, Mother Earth produced 25,480 barrels of beer, according to the BA.
Fort Collins, Colorado-Based McClellan’s Brewings Shuts Down
Fort Collins, Colorado-based McClellan’s Brewing Company shuttered late last month, according to a report in the Fort Collins Coloradoan.
A financial backer for the brewpub, which opened for business in 2015, told the Coloradoan that a combination of declining traffic due to increasing COVID-19 cases in the area, and rising inflation drove the decision to close. The brewery’s website has been taken down and its social media profiles have not posted new content since the summer.
Last year, McClellan’s produced 215 barrels of beer, according to the Brewers Association’s (BA) May/June issue of the New Brewer.