![]() ![]() Hopkins says beer is scheduling distribution to Denver, Chicago, and as far as Boston. The real benefit of establishing production in Idaho will be seen in the first quarter of 2017, as Mother Earth begins moving eastward. We actually launched them from the Vista facility, and then we handed them off." "The reality is we started launching markets in 2016," Hopkins says. It's massive."įor much of this year, Mother Earth was already shipping to these areas - including Idaho - from San Diego, to get a head start establishing the brand. "From a craft-beer perspective," Hopkins asserts, "Northern California really is it's own thing. That half state, by the way, is Northern California. "It has transportation corridors that work all the way across the U.S.," he adds, noting the Idaho brewery is already shipping Mother Earth cans and bottles throughout the Pacific Northwest and mountain regions - five and a half states so far. So why Idaho? "That is the million-dollar question, literally and figuratively," says Mother Earth vice president Kevin Hopkins. ![]() By comparison, Mother Earth's main brewery in Vista can make about 40,000 barrels. That's because in August the brewery fired up a 40,000-square-foot production facility in Nampa, capable of brewing over 100,000 barrels per year. opened a tasting room in the town of Nampa, Idaho, about 20 miles west of Boise. San Diego beer, brewing in Idaho Mother Earth built a large, robust, fully functional breweryĮarlier this month, Mother Earth Brewing Co. ![]()
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