Really, what isn’t Drew Fox working on? The brewer behind Gary, Indiana’s 18th Street Brewery has taken on a lot in the brewery’s first two years, from multiple spatial expansions to an all-sour-beer side project called Sour Note, to collaborations with the buzzy Arizona Wilderness Brewing Co. And there’s only more to come this year.
Last week, Fox announced that 18th Street would expand (for the fourth time in its history) to take over the former fur factory space adjacent to the brewery. That will add more barrel-aging room and nearly double the brewery’s capacity to approximately 1,000 barrels this year, keeping up with demand for 18th Street and Sour Note’s bottles. Release days—especially for the Sour Note line, Sinister Double IPA and Hunter variations (18th Street’s milk stout that now has eight iterations)—frequently draw crowds from across Indiana and nearby Chicago… CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY AT DRAFTMAG.COM
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