E-Malt.com News article: USA, CA: 21st Amendment to expand beer operations to East Bay

Noted Second Street brewpub and beer outfit 21st Amendment will be expanding their reach to the East Bay — and likely the rest of the country — starting this fall with the opening of a restaurant, beer garden and brewing facility that will make it one of the largest breweries in the Bay Area, SFist reported on February 17.

The 95,000 square foot location in San Leandro formerly served as a factory for Kellogg Cereal. It'll serve as a full-service campus for the company, with spaces for offices and meeting rooms as well as a full service restaurant and public beer garden. The site will be renovated by Aidlin Darling Designs. The tasting room and brewing facility should open later this year, with the restaurant, offices and beer garden to follow in 2015.

21st Amendment has long been a supporter of the craft beer-in-a-can trend, but most of the cans of their Brew Free or Die IPA and Hell or High Watermelon Wheat are currently bottled in Minnesota, so this is a win for local beer as well. The facilities will be able to produce 100,000 barrels of beer per year to start, but will be scalable to 250,000 barrels. That sort of scale ought to allow distribution of 21st Amendment across the country.

In terms of the East Bay beer scene, the larger Drake's Brewing will open their own beer garden in uptown Oakland later this year. Anchor Brewing will also be stepping their production when they open a new facility.



19 February, 2014