New Brewery (eventually) for Starkville...

[vandaldawg]

I didn't look past the first page, so this is perhaps Deutsh. But Ed Dechert and Cameron Fogle are heading up Starkville's first brewery. Technically they will contract brew with Lazy Magnolia until they get a foothold in the market, but hopefully then set up shop in Vegas. Ed is great guy and I've had some of his brews. He knows his ****. Excellent musician as well, but I digress.

http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=35037

 

[57stratdawg]

very cool. Thanks for sharing. Hadn't see that.

It's behind a firewall, so is it going to be a restaurant/brewery? Where is it going to be located?

 

[Drewbowski]

It doesn't say anything about a location in Starkville just yet. Just that the two guys are brewing with Lazy Magnolia for this first batch of beer.

 

[SidneyBurger]

Welp, somebody beat me to it.

 

[msudawg12]

definitely great to get another brewery in MS and especially one in Starkville.

fwiw, a lot of the MS breweries currently contract brew with Lazy Mag

 

[seshomoru]

They do, and I think it's a big reason our ABW got raised.

I may be wrong, but I want to say Lazy Mag got some big grant that they used to seriously expand capacity with the requirement that they hire some amount of new workers. The plan was to add tanks and contract brew for new folks popping up and eventually use the tanks themselves as they grew. I think this was one of the issues used to get the legislature to vote on the ABW because if they didn't, they would have tangibly been hurting a business, preventing new businesses from starting, and killing jobs. I could be way off because I'm trying to remember this from a conversation I had at Top of the Hops a few years back.

 

[msudawg12]

I may be wrong, but I want to say Lazy Mag got some big grant that they used to seriously expand capacity with the requirement that they hire some amount of new workers. The plan was to add tanks and contract brew for new folks popping up and eventually use the tanks themselves as they grew. I think this was one of the issues used to get the legislature to vote on the ABW because if they didn't, they would have tangibly been hurting a business, preventing new businesses from starting, and killing jobs. I could be way off because I'm trying to remember this from a conversation I had at Top of the Hops a few years back.

who knows, but makes sense to me.