ABSTRACTlegend
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Ahhh, yeah, I've heard that Almanac actually DOESN'T do anything out of there, but my source on that may have been mistaken.
It's no secret that Almanac Beer Company brews their beers out of Hermitage Brewing in San Jose. The cost to open up a brewery is staggering, hovering near the 1 million dollar mark (or significantly more depending on what you want to do), and few people have access to that kind of capital. So it's not unusual for a brewing company to start its life out by having its beer brewed by someone else. It's a more economical way to get going and many beer companies will just roll over their profits into capital and equipment for their own facilities. Friedman tells me that the end game is to eventually have their own brewing facilities but until then, it's very nice to be able to make a phone call and say we need to up the production and be done with it.
Source:http://www.betterbeerblog.com/index.php/2012/01/18/an-afternoon-with-almanac-brewing-company/