Award-winning Mexico City Brewery Cerveceria Paracaidista Expanding to the U.S. in Partnership With Pilot Project Brewing

 Award-winning Mexico City brewery Cerveceria Paracaidista is expanding to the U.S. this spring in partnership with Chicago-based brewery incubator Pilot Project Brewing. Cerveceria Paracaidista will debut on May 10 with The Fat Mariachi, a Mexican lager, and Belgian for the Beach, a hoppy saison, as well So You Wanna Be A Hop Superstar? part of their suite of limited-release beers. This will be the brewer’s first sustained new market entry outside of Mexico, having collaborated with other U.S. breweries like Modern Times, Ronin Fermentation Project, Brewer's Kitchen, among others.

 As nomadic brewers, the team behind Cerveceria Paracaidista is rethinking ‘Mexican beers’ with a global, progressive, and multicultural perspective—from an exploration of Mexican traditional brewing history to an almost culinary dive into fruits, spices, woods, barrels, bugs, and bacteria. Cerveceria Paracaidista is less about Frida Kahlo and luchador masks and leans more Enrique Olvera, Octavio Paz, Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro. They take inspiration both from the cosmopolitan streets of Roma Norte and Condesa in Mexico City to the coastal cliffs and vineyards of Baja California. 

The labels for The Fat Mariachi and Belgian for the Beach are original art commissioned by the Cerveceria Paracaidista team from local graffiti and visual artists. 

About Pilot Project

Pilot Project was created as a purpose-driven, collaborative, and artistically curious brewing and tasting room facility to help support talented brewers in an industry with exceptionally high barriers. Modeled after the music industry, Pilot serves as a launch pad for start-up breweries, offering assistance with fine-tuning recipes, production scaling, business development, marketing, distribution and more. They maintain breweries in Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI capable of producing 200K barrels of product per year as Cerveceria Paracaidista looks to grow nationally.