Oskar Blues to open brewery in Carolina

LONGMONT – Craft brewer Oskar Blues Brewery LLC will open a new 30,000-square foot brewery in rural North Carolina, which will be the company’s first brewery outside of Colorado, the company announced Wednesday.

Longmont-based Oskar Blues has a contract on a brewery facility and 6,000-square-foot restaurant in Brevard, N.C. The company expects to have the brewery and restaurant, which will host live music, open by December, it said in a press release.

The move will help Oskar Blues sell more beer east of the Mississippi River. The company already sells more than 35 percent of its beer in that region.

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