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In spite of the more than 7000 currently online in the US, we continue to receive new brewery announcements almost daily…Even the more established breweries are upgrading their acts!

And here’s some of what’s happening around the country…

7 Years Coming – Backlash Beer opens New Brewery And First Taproom

A seasoned vet when it comes to Massachusetts’s most recent craft beer wave, Backlash Beer, which launched more than seven years ago has finally opened its long-awaited new brewery and taproom in Boston.

Housed in an old piano factory in the heart of Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, Backlash Beer’s new location didn’t come cheap, in fact the Boston Business Journal reports it cost $250,000 more than planned. But the $1, 5 million, 7000 square foot space, which opened on November 3^rd to 5 hour lines looks (and tastes) like money well spent.

Wild Heaven Breaks Ground On New Beltline Brewery

Wild Heaven Beer has finally begun construction on its long anticipated second brewery and taproom which will be joining Monday Night Brewing along Atlanta’s Beltline, a former railway corridor that’s being redeveloped as a multi-use tail linking parks and neighborhood around the core of the city.

Wild Heaven’s new 21,000-square-feet West End space will feature a 15-barrel brewhouse, followed later by a 60-barrel system for production of the brewery’s core beers. The brewery’s current brewery in Decatur, Georgia will also remain open and continue to concentrate on the brewery’s Belgian, sour, and barrel-aged beer programs.

Lord Hobo Debuts Striking New Taproom

After closing in May for extensive renovations, Lord Hobo unveiled its Woburn, Massachusetts taproom over the weekend and from what we’re hearing it was well worth the wait.

“The Woburn brewery opened in 2015 after the success of the Lord Hobo beer hall in Cambridge, and had a functioning but small taproom where customers could grab a drink or two,” but according to Boston.com, “the focus, however, was on making beer.”

With the ability to seat more than 150 people, Lord Hobo’s new 3,500-square-foot taproom has been completely transformed into a New England beer hall “complete with chandeliers, steel beams, plenty of wood, and 14 large, communal tables.”

Lord Hobo’s new space also features 40 active tap lines, a huge upgrade from the six they had before. And Chef Matthew Bullock who used to oversee food at its original Cambridge bar has moved to the beer hall where he’s greatly expanded its menu.