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Brew up a Biergarten

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Engine 15 Brewing Company in Jacksonville was chosen to be a part of One Spark, the World’s Crowdfunding Festival.   One Spark is built on the premise that great creations can come from garages, small studios, dorm rooms even breweries.  The only thing that holds them back is access to capital and resources.   Engine 15 is in the midst of an expansion to add a production facility.   With the new location, they are hoping to create a water recovery system from the water used to cool the boiling wort.  This water – and potentially rain water collected on the roof – could be used to clean equipment, flush toilets and water the biergarten.  Once created, they’d like to share this system with other breweries around the country to help use perfectly good water before it goes back into the treatment system.

Live in the Jacksonville area?   Check out One Spark and help Engine 15 Brewing Company ’Brew up a Biergarten’ 1)Crowdfund: collect votes from attendees that translate into a percentage of the $200,000 crowdfund distributed solely by popular vote, 2)Category Award: Get the most votes in category and collect an extra $10,000, 3)Juried Awards: Juries of subject matter experts in each category select their favorite Project to receive a $10,000 award, 4)Individual Contributions: The Creator Project that receives the most individual contributions through the One Spark site/app will receive an additional $10,000 award, 5)Capital Investments: Connects with up to $3,250,000 in potential investments through official One Spark partners and independent investors.

 

 

Jacksonville Beach getting another brewery

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Zeta, a restaurant/bar that opened last year in Jacksonville Beach, is going to add a brewery soon.

Chris Prevatt, who will be the brewer, said he’s in the final stages of permitting. The seven-barrel system is expected to arrive early next month with brewing starting by the end of March, he said.

That should mean beer by mid-April.

The beer will be just served in Zeta at first, but Prevatt said he hopes to start distributing in the first year. It will just be ales at first, he said, an India pale ale, rye pale, chocolate coffee stout, honey brown. Then he’ll start doing a few lagers.

He hopes to have about six staples and a few seasonals.

Prevatt said he’s an experienced homebrewer who attended Siebel Institute of Technology in Chicago, the best-known brewing school in the country. He also interned at All Saints Brewing in Pennsylvania.

Mark Vandeloo and Aaron Webb opened the 250-seat Zeta about eight months ago in the former Urban Flats space on 1st Avenue North.

Engine 15 Planning New Location in Jacksonville

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Maxed out at a current capacity of about 1,000 barrels of annual production in their Beach Boulevard location, Engine 15 has started it’s work on a new brewery. The new location will have more space and 10 times the capacity.

Roger Bull of The Florida Times-Union reports:

Engine 15 Brewing is planning to build a new brewery, tap room, outdoor beer garden and cannery at Myrtle Avenue and Beaver Street.

Luch Scremin, co-owner of the Jacksonville Beach brewery, said he hopes to have the new brewery open by February. The other features would come later in 2014.

Scremin said he paid $390,000 for two buildings at 601 and 633 North Myrtle Ave. The buildings were occupied by a cabinet shop and metal recycler who vacated when Scremin closed Monday.

“The buildings are really cool,” he said. “One was built in 1919 and the other in 1936. They’ve got all kinds of history.”

And they’re a little more than a mile away from the Forest Street location where Intuition Ale Works owner Ben Davis announced intentions in May to build a brewery. That would require purchase of city property which has not been finalized.

Engine 15 opened as a bar and restaurant on Beach Boulevard in Jacksonville Beach in 2010 and started brewing its own beer in 2011. Scremin said he had to double the brewing capacity within the first year, as has every other brewery in Jacksonville.

“We’re beyond maxed out now,” he said.

The Beach Boulevard location will remain open, he said. And the new facility, with its 20-barrel brewhouse and 60-barrel fermentation tanks, would increase annual production from 1,000 barrels to 10,000 barrels.”

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