(Denver, CO) – Breckenridge Brewery just sent out a note updating media on its expansion. The brewery produced 33,000 barrels in 2010 and reported being on track to blast past 40,000 barrels in 2011. The new expansion takes capacity to 60,000 75,000 barrels.

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As phase 1 of our 2012 expansion plan, Breckenridge Brewery installed two 300-barrel fermenters yesterday and one 200-barrel Brite tank today. Photos are attached. Four more 300-barrel fermenters are coming in March.

Here are some of the stats for the tanks:

All three new tanks were made by Paul Mueller Company in Springfield, Missouri. Each of the 2 fermenters installed yesterday is about 40 feet tall, 10 feet in diameter, and weighs about 10,000 lbs.

The four scheduled to come at the end of March should be on-line and in production in early April. We’ve built a new room on the south side of our brewery at 471 Kalamath Street, Denver, to accommodate the six new fermenters.
Today we installed the 200-barrel Brite tank into our filtration/packaging area. We had to lift one of our existing 100-barrel Brite tanks from this area through a hole in roof in the middle of our building in order to properly place the new Brite tank, again through the roof. We’re moving the 100-barrel tank into another space in the packaging area.