(Tampa, FL) – Cigar City Brewing‘s Head Brewer, Wayne Wambles, recently gave drinkers a tour of the incomplete new brewhouse.

Wambles told the crowd that, once everything is in place, the brewery will be able to produce over 58,000 annual barrels annually (theoretically 2,430 barrels turned over every two weeks).

Cigar City needs the capacity badly with demand outpacing supply as much as it is currently. Production will pass 9,000 barrels this year, up from just 3,450 barrels in 2010. This is only the brewery’s third full year in operation.

One casualty of that growth is the sour program. Wambles said that Cigar City will no longer be doing sour beers until they can isolate production. It’s a variable that they don’t want to risk with business growing as much as it is.

The old brewhouse will still be used and will be capable of small batch production (between pilot and commercial-level production).

The first beer on the new system will be all-new and draft-only. The purpose is so that brewers can dial in the system and figure out what kind of efficiency and hop utilization that they are going to get. They can then use the numbers from the first brew and know how to adjust their other beers from how they used to make it on the old system to the new system.

Cigar City beers are currently available in Florida, Alabama, New York City, Philadelphia, as well as Georgia and Virginia to a lesser extent.

The video was captured by BeerinFlorida.com.