Entrepreneurs / Small Business  August 4, 2015

Odd13 brewing up $400,000 expansion in Lafayette

LAFAYETTE — Two years after opening their doors, the owners of Odd13 Brewing are expanding into a new 3,800-square-foot production site a mile and a half away, but are keeping their downtown taproom location.

Ryan Scott, who co-founded the brewery with his wife, Kristin, said the plan is to move production and packaging to the new site, while maintaining a smaller-scale production operation at the 301 E. Simpson St. location where the brewery can experiment with new beers.

The new site is at 505 Stacy Court, just a couple of blocks southeast of the intersection of South Boulder Road and U.S. Highway 287. Construction is already under way on the $400,000 expansion, and Scott said he’s hoping to have the new facility producing by mid October. A taproom could become part of the new site eventually but isn’t in the near-term plans.

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In addition to the 3,800 square feet leased, Odd 13 has first right of refusal on other units in the 11,000-square-foot building at 505 Stacy if other tenants leave in the future.

“We chose the building with future growth in mind,” Scott said.

For now, the new digs should provide plenty of extra capacity. Odd13, which celebrated its second anniversary on Monday, produced 670 barrels of beer in 2014. Without any extra capacity from the new location, Scott said that figure should grow to about 1,200 barrels this year. With the new location, where Odd13 is installing a new 30-barrel brewhouse, capacity will be about 3,000 barrels per year between the company’s two sites. But Scott said there is room in the new spot to add enough tanks to grow capacity to 5,500 barrels before Odd13 would need more square footage.

“It’s been a positive surprise but not entirely unforeseen,” Scott said of the rapid growth.

Odd13’s original location, which has a 10-barrel brewhouse, will continue some limited bottling. But most of the bottling and canning will move to Stacy Court. Odd13 cans a pair of year-round beers and will add a third as soon as the new facility is online.

For Odd13, the new setup in more of an industrial area will create a best-of-both-worlds kind of arrangement. There wasn’t a lot of space for expansion in downtown Lafayette, but the brewery gets to keep its neighborhood vibe at the taproom.

“There’s a sense of community at the current location,” Scott said.

LAFAYETTE — Two years after opening their doors, the owners of Odd13 Brewing are expanding into a new 3,800-square-foot production site a mile and a half away, but are keeping their downtown taproom location.

Ryan Scott, who co-founded the brewery with his wife, Kristin, said the plan is to move production and packaging to the new site, while maintaining a smaller-scale production operation at the 301 E. Simpson St. location where the brewery can experiment with new beers.

The new site is at 505 Stacy Court, just a couple of blocks southeast of the intersection of South Boulder Road and U.S. Highway…

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