After their very successful grand opening last month, West Sac's Bike Dog Brewing Company is reinvesting their income into the business by adding seating, beers on tap and brewing capacity.

Here's a snippet from the e-mail announcement they made:

Running that low on beer was never the design of course, but with a small system--only four fermentors and one brite tank (what you carbonate in) --and lots of sales, it was the unexpected reality. There is a pretty easy solution though: spend some money on more tanks. And that’s exactly what we’ve done.

The day after the grand opening we ordered a second brite tank, because at the time that was our production bottleneck. We lucked out and it was in stock, so it’s already in use and helping us catch up. Once we had that, though, we realized we could really use two additional fermentors, but the ones we were using were backordered for three months. Instead we decided to upgrade to a double-sized stainless fermentor that should be here in mid January. While that doesn’t help us right now, we are giddy thinking about having a stainless tank with some bells and whistles to make more beer in soon.

So what have we done in the mean time to make sure we can get 5+ beers on tap and start introducing some new beers? Well, we asked our industry friends for a little help, and Rubicon was happy to step up. Because they have a sweet second facility up and running now in West Sacramento, they had an empty tank at their midtown brewpub and they offered to make a batch of our IPA for us. For us? Well, really more like with us, but on their equipment. Head Brewer/Co-Owner Pete and I had the pleasure of helping to make the batch, and everything went great. Since we used our ingredients, hit all of our numbers and were so hands-on, we are confident that it will taste just as amazing as the IPA we’ve been making on our own brewhouse.

Click here to read the entire announcement.

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