City Brewing Announces Beginning of Production at Irwindale Brew Yard

LA CROSSE, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--City Brewing Company, LLC (“City” or the “Company”), the leading co-manufacturer of high-growth beverages in the U.S., today announced the successful commencement of production at Irwindale Brew Yard (“IBY”), a full-service, low-alcohol beverage contract production facility based in Irwindale, California. The start of production at IBY marks a major milestone for the facility, which has successfully launched one production line and hired nearly 120 employees over the past 7 months.

“We are thrilled today to commemorate the start of production at the iconic Irwindale Brew Yard,” said Ross Sannes, CEO of City. “With IBY now operational, City is in an even better position to serve the needs of our current and future customers as demand for their products accelerates. We have a talented team that is committed to maintaining and building on Irwindale Brew Yard’s storied brewing legacy while ensuring we are capitalizing on the tremendous market opportunity in the alcohol beverage marketplace through a tireless focus on quality, efficiency and innovation.”

Once fully operational, IBY will become the largest full-service, low-alcohol beverage contract production facility in the western United States offering hard seltzers, traditional flavored malt beverages, mainstream and craft beer, premium non-alcoholic drinks and spirit-based ready-to-drink beverages in a broad variety of primary and secondary packages. The plant will also feature automated variety pack capability. IBY will start up a second production line this month and a third production line in January 2022, and in that timeframe expects to reach initial capacity of approximately 55 million 24 x 12-oz cases per year, as well as capacity of 110 million cases per year within the next 5 years.

Today’s milestone follows an active year for City, which recently announced a $630 million investment program to accelerate the Company’s growth and fund its capacity expansion program to meet growing demand from key customers. City is committed to offering best-in-class supply chain services, and to continually upgrading its state-of-the-art processing and packaging technology.

About City Brewing

City Brewing is the largest full-service co-manufacturer in the United States providing co-packing services to blue chip customers across their Hard Seltzer, Traditional FMB, Beer, Spirit-based RTD, and premium non-alcoholic beverage brands. City operates out of three facilities located in La Crosse, WI, Memphis, TN and Latrobe, PA.