Sierra Nevada Beer in North Carolina?

Posted by Tina

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company is expanding to meet the demand for this most excellent beer on the east coast. They have chosen South Carolina as the perfect place to locate. Watching this company grow from a dream to a world wide success has been fun and I wish them all the best in their new endeavors. This company is a great example of what people can do with a dream in a free country.

The Post and Courier reports that twenty-eight beer tanks have arrived in South Carolina:

A prized new set of gargantuan beer cans arrived at Charleston’s port Tuesday after a 14-day voyage across the frothy Atlantic Ocean from Germany.
Twenty-eight beer brewing tanks — some large enough to hold up to 3,200 kegs worth of suds — made landfall at the Port of Charleston’s Columbus Street Terminal. They are bound for Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s new brewery in Mills River, N.C., about 12 miles south of Asheville.
The Chico, Calif.-based company announced the expansion last year, and the arrival of the tanks marks the next milestone in the brewery’s development, according to port officials. The stainless steel tanks, made by Ziemann Group in Burgstadt, Germany, came wrapped and tethered to the deck of a container ship with chains. They looked a bit like farm silos tipped on their sides or stages from a rocket laid end-to-end.

The companies product development manager, Bill Manley, described the massive tanks in terms of beer making:

“But this is the bread and butter of our brewery,” he said. “This is where the wort — the sugar water — turns into beer. That is an investment you never want to skimp on. That is an investment in the future of our brewery and our beer.”

Congratulations go out to Sierra Nevada.