You are talking about $400 yeast pitches rather than $20–30-50 here and there,” Zimmer said. “You’re ordering 50-pound grain bags instead of buying a one-pound grain bag that was packed by a guy down the street. One fifteen-barrel tank and an alternating proprietorship agreement (an agreement where a company brews their beers into tanks they own, but which are located at someone’s else’s brewery) later, they were brewing on nights and weekends while working their existing full-time jobs, and navigating the steep learning curve between at-home brewer and commercial-scale brewer. “And as we began to step up our game as homebrewers, it eventually blossomed into what was a crazy idea, an entrepreneurial idea – what if that was us? What if we made beer that people bought and enjoyed on the regular?” “We grew up drinking beer from breweries like Revolution, Half Acre, Three Floyds,” Zimmer said. We’ve decided to team up with Hop Butcher because they’re one of our favorites. Our own Jumpy Juice/Northeast-Hero project was very much driven by the way these new brewers made beer fans stand up and pay attention.Īs a relatively new brewery that grew from a scrappy startup beginning, we’re continually enthralled by new up-and-coming brewers – their passion, their brewing styles, and the risks they take. What these new brewers are doing feels different, but in that same exciting way that your first West Coast IPA made you feel after a lifetime of light beer.
They’re a tiny portion of the overall beer market, yet they set the tone of conversation for a lot of the industry.
Revolution was built by a pair of brewers (Josh Deth and Jim Cibak) fresh from that influence, and almost ten years in, we’ve gone from a Brewpub in Logan Square to the largest independent brewery in the state.Ī few decades into the American craft beer renaissance, we’re seeing another evolution in local brewing – true startup brewers, often in shared spaces, turning heads with a huge hop focus, bold artwork, and diehard following. Anchor Brewing and New Albion laid a base for Sierra Nevada to reinvent the idea of American beer. The future of beer is forever being written in reaction to its past, even as new ideas and fresh perspectives take it where it’s never been.
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