Sly Fox Brewing announced Tuesday it will relocate its Royersford brewing operation to the borough’s Circle of Progress in the Pottstown Airport Business Center.
The move will allow the craft brewing operation to triple its beer production.
The announcement was made by John Giannopoulos and his brother Peter Giannopoulos, managing partners of family-owned Sly Fox Brewing, which also includes three other siblings and their father.
“We are really excited about this. It’s been fun — crazy fun,” John Giannopoulos said Tuesday, while giving a Mercury reporter a tour of Sly Fox’s 30,000-square-foot Circle of Progress building.
Sly Fox took possession of the Pottstown building in the beginning of the year. In addition to relocating its executive offices, Sly Fox also moved the contents of a former warehouse in Limerick to the Pottstown site, according to Giannopoulos.
After looking for space in areas including Phoenixville, Royersford and King of Prussia, Sly Fox settled on the six-acre Pottstown location because it allows room to grow, Giannopoulos said.
“This building has almost exactly what we need,” he said. “And we can purchase an additional two acres if we want to expand. We didn’t want to be landlocked.”
At its current brewhouse and eatery in Royersford, Sly Fox is able to brew 50 hectoliters of beer daily. At the Pottstown brewing operation, Sly Fox will be able to increase daily production threefold to 150 hectoliters. The company plans to purchase three new 150-hectoliter fermenters from JV Northwest and move 11 50-hectoliter fermenters from Royersford, according to a prepared statement.
Giannopoulos said the roof has already been raised over a 1,000-square-foot section of the new building to accommodate the bigger tanks, and a 2,500-square-foot cold storage box is already in place.
Also planned for the Pottstown site is a new rotary Cime canning line from Italy that will more than double the brewery’s canning capabilities. It will go online at the Royersford site next month and then be moved to the Pottstown site. Sly Fox began canning its beer at the Royersford location in 2006.
The Royersford location, several smaller fermenters and the existing canning line will be sold when the new plant goes online.
“We have to be able to make more beer in order to meet the demand and we also want to grow the business in both our present markets and look to expand into some new markets,” said Peter Giannopoulos in the statement.
Source: http://www.montgomerynews.com/articles/2011/06/16/springford_reporter_valley_item/news/doc4dfa11f551d9c559648360.txt?viewmode=2
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