Lagunitas Brewing expands Chicago plans, will lift company-wide capacity to 2.4MM bbls

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(Chicago, IL) – As 7,000 or so beer industry professionals crowded into Washington, DC, this week for the Craft Brewers Conference, one notable brewery owner was missing. Lagunitas Brewing founder, Tony Magee, wrote on Twitter this week that he hadn’t “been to one since ’01. Just not much of a joiner, I guess.” Fitting that he may have delivered the biggest news of the week, far away from the Nation’s Capital…

Lagunitas is expanding its plan for Chicago, taking over the whole facility it is already building in and prepping it for a second brewhouse. That plan will eventually bring Chicago capacity to a whopping 1.7 million barrels on top of 700k barrels at the original plant in Petaluma.

At 2.4 million barrels, that would put Lagunitas as the second-largest “craft” brewery behind The Boston Beer Company in terms of brewing capacity.

Below, how the news unfolded over Twitter…

 

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