HUGE NEWS from ARCADIA BREWING COMPANY!

Arcadia Brewing Company has been approved by the Kalamazoo Brownfield Redevelopment Authority for the purchase and redevelopment of a riverfront property on the Kalamazoo River. 


    The Michigan Economic Development Corporation has announced its support for the project with the Michigan Community Revitalization Program grants for the mixed-use facility. The grants are valued at $1 million and will assist with the construction of the 4,500 square foot barbeque-themed brewpub. 


    The facility will also include a 24,000 square foot beer production facility.  The new facility is projected to open in the summer of 2013. Arcadia plans to operate their existing facility in Battle Creek Michigan as well as the new property in Kalamazoo.
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Arcadia moves to Kalamazoo! This is wonderfully exciting news. 


As I'm sure some of you have realized, Arcadia BC is kind of a sleeper in West MI. You ask people to name three breweries from West MI and I bet Arcadia won't be one.

Regardless of clout or talk, Arcadia is one of the biggest breweries on this side of the mitten. Their fermentation space is seriously huge, and their distribution has been steadily growing over the last few years.

Arcadia has been surrounded by rumors for the last year as to where this mystery pub was going to open, and here we have our answer - and way bigger than expected! The rumors had been that they were considering opening one or two small brewpubs around WMI (rumored was Grand Rapids and KZOO), keep them small as an output for Arcadia's brews, and also be free to brew pub-only releases.

The announcement has blown all the rumors right out of the water. Rather than going for a smaller, efficient brewpub model, they've blown that apart fifteen-fold. 


This is something that I want you to realize about this project: Arcadia is opening a second brewery that is big enough to be an entirely separate entity. 


This restaurant/pub/brewery is ten times the size of any of the smaller breweries, and even out-does the original Arcadia brewery.


This is a massive step for Arcadia, and one that looks to the future. A new brewhouse, new bottling/canning system, a new pub, new restaurant - but the biggest figure is the 24,000bbl brewing facility. 

Not only will this allow them to effectively double their production output, but the amount of fermentation space created in the new facility will allow a ridiculous amount of production - and, on top of the production from the main facility.

Arcadia is making a move on the West MI market, and they may not be opening until next year, but this? This is massive.

Cheers,

BD

The Dude Imbibes

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