In a recent interview the head of Melvin Brewing, Jeremy Tofte discussed expanding his brewery. This is what he said:
Yes, we are. We’re in negotiations with a couple different landlords in Denver, another in Olympia, Washington, and then we have a letter of intent in on a space in San Diego. My manager from Thai Me Up, Jamie Morris, I told him in four years we’ll have a big old brewery, and then we’ll start building brewpubs, and you’ll be in charge of all the brewpubs. And sure enough, almost four years to the date, he’s now running Melvin Brewpubs, LLC. He was just down here for San Diego Beer Week and we looked for spaces for a few weeks, and kind of honed in on the ones we really wanted to see. We found one that’s just perfect. We’ll put a 10-barrel system in there. When we find the place in Denver, up there we’ll do sour beers. We have a really good sour brewer ready to jump on that project, and he’ll get creative control. It’s all about bringing in these team members that want to do great things in their lives, but maybe they don’t have a way to do it, or they don’t have the experience or the financing. I’m all about bringing people on that are better than us and giving them the opportunity to perfect their craft without us micro-managing them or telling them what to do every minute. I’m just excited that we have a great team that is taking us to the promised land. It’s going to be such a good feeling to have this 2×4 Day all over the world, and showing people what American craft beer is.
You can read the full interview by visiting: http://allaboutbeer.com/article/jeremy-tofte-melvin-brewing/
