Gladstone Brewing Company to expand production capacity by 40 per cent

From BC Local News

Featured image: Gladstone Brewing Company is located in downtown Courtenay. Photo by Scott Strasser.

Craft beer fans in the Comox Valley will receive an early Christmas present this year, as Gladstone Brewing Company plans to increase its production capacity by 40 per cent.

Craft beer fans in the Comox Valley will receive an early Christmas present this year, as Gladstone Brewing Company plans to increase its production capacity by 40 per cent.

The Courtenay-based microbrewery has invested in a new “brite tank” and two new 30-barrel fermenters. The additions will bring the brewery’s production up from the 1,550 hectolitres of beer it produced in 2017.

The new infrastructure is expected to be installed after Dec. 22.

A brite tank is a vessel in which beer is stored once the primary fermentation and filtering process is complete. The tank allows beer to further mature, clarify and carbonate, as well as be stored for kegging, bottling, canning, and packaging.

Gladstone co-owner Daniel Sharratt said the reason for the investment is that the microbrewery has struggled at times to make enough beer to meet customer demand, particularly in the summer.

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