On Thursday night, Milwaukee’s Dead Bird Brewing – which opened in Halyard Park in 2019 – posted a message on social media, writing, “Everyone is making New Year’s resolutions and so are we! We’re resolving to be the brewery we’ve at all times wished to be! Cheers to y’all.”
Here was the message in full:
What does it imply? We requested proprietor/brewmaster Nick Kocis…
“The present taproom shouldn’t be closing. We are literally lastly in a position to get again into distribution of our beer,” he instructed me on Thursday. “Before we opened, we had almost 80 retail places between Dane and Milwaukee counties and it has at all times been our aim to get again to them.
“It took us three years to lastly order, obtain, set up, and totally fee our 5 barrel brewhouse. COVID provide issues had been inflicting us points proper up till October of this yr. We ordered the brewery tools in early spring of 2021. We didn’t begin getting items till late December of 2021.
“We didn’t get {the electrical} completed till Spring of 2023 after quite a few delays associated to a big piece {of electrical} tools, and our glycol system wasn’t totally practical till October of this yr.
“Needless to say these delays almost cost us the corporate. Had issues taken any longer we’d’ve severely thought-about shutting down. Now, with all the pieces practical, we are able to refocus on beer.
“With that comes some shifting away from meals. We’ll nonetheless have loads to snack on – all vegan, as at all times – together with our pizzas and smooth pretzels however we’ll be doing much less rotating specials and time consuming menu gadgets. This will all enable us to spend extra time making and promoting beer, which is what we got down to do initially.
“We’re hoping to have beer on cabinets in a number of places in and round Madison and Milwaukee by the tip of the month.”
Watch this house as Kocis says that he is working with a associate on “a big summer time beer backyard” (that is the “new place” talked about within the social media be aware). More on that later.
