Trailblazing microcanner enjoys sixth year of uncanny growth
(Lyons, Colorado) — Oskar Blues Brewery enjoyed its sixth straight year of significant growth, increasing its beer production by 64% in 2008
The company — the nation’s first hand-canning craft brewery and makers of canned Dale’s Pale Ale, Old Chub Scottish Style Ale, Gordon, and Ten FIDY Imperial Stout — produced 19,500 barrels of beer in 2008. The brewery produced 12,409 barrels in 2007. (A barrel of beer equals 31 gallons.)
This growth makes Oskar Blues one of the fastest-growing craft brewers in America.
The Brewers Association has just reported that US craft beer production as a whole grew by 5.8%. Get details here.
The brewery’s 2008 growth was aided by its expansion into new markets (Texas, California and other states) and the opening of a new 35,000-square-feet brewery and cannery in Longmont, Colorado.
The Oskar Blues brewery in Lyons, CO continues to produce beers for the company’s famed brewpub/music venue there.
Oskar Blues began canning its beers (one can at a time on a table-top machine) in November of 2002. The move made Oskar Blues the first US craft brewer to brew and can its own beer.
The company’s beers are now available in 23 states: CO, AZ, CA, ID, WA, OR, AK, NM, GA, VA, NJ, PA, MA, NY, WI, RI, CT, MD, NC, FL, TN, TX and SC.
Congratulations to Oskar Blues. I discovered them at the 2007 NY Brewfest and it was my best discovery there. The whole great beer in a can thing really was an eye opener, particularly in that context of the Brewfest.
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