from USA TODAY: The maker of Samuel Adams beer is planning a $7 million expansion of its Cincinnati brewery.

Boston Brewing Co. said Thursday that the project will be completed by September and will allow the company to brew about two-thirds of its Samuel Adams beer in Cincinnati — about 800,000 barrels a year, up from 600,000 now. The company has another brewery in Boston.

Jim Koch, founder of the Boston Brewing, said the purchase of the former Hudepohl-Schoenling brewery seven years ago and the newly announced expansion were especially meaningful to him because his father once served as an apprentice brewmaster there. It is the last remaining brewery in Cincinnati, which once was home to dozens of beer-makers.

Koch is from Cincinnati and is a sixth-generation brewmaster who founded Boston Brewing in 1984 in his kitchen after earning degrees at Harvard University.

January 7, 2005 by david burn | Permalink | 0 Comments