Thursday, July 21, 2011
Final Logo Design
Back to Colonial days..
"During America's colinial years brewing was a craft practiced by average folks on a small scale for home and community consumption, or as a small cottage business to supplement farm income. It continued to be associated with with spirituality, health and nutrition....Beer played a vital role in building strong communities." Christopher Mark Obrien, Fermenting Revolution
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Some more press...
| Partners crafting a plan for Dennis Township brewery |  |  |  |
| Written by Bill Barlow |
| Thursday, 30 June 2011 04:30 |
| Tim Hanna says there’s a beer renaissance going on, not just nationally but also on the local level. Hanna, of Seaville, and three other friends are working on launching Tuckahoe Brewing Company. They have a lease on a property in Dennis Township, at 9 Stoney Court, near a marine company, a coffee roaster and a lobster business. “It’s nice to have neighbors,” Hanna said. Their lease starts in August, he said, but it will be months before the new business gets the state and federal approvals needed to start brewing at the site. Hanna said he hopes they can start offering tastings by late October or early November. The company recently published a public notice required by the state division of Alcohol Beverage Control announcing their application for a limited brewery license. That means they will be able to sell their beer on site, but won’t serve food like a brew pub. They plan to offer tours and tastings. Hanna’s partners are Matthew McDevitt of Egg Harbor Township, Christopher S. Konicki of Margate, and James McAfee of Seaville. Three of the four are teachers at Mainland Regional High School, and McAfee is an architect at Blaine Steinman Architects. McDevitt has been home brewing beer – from scratch, mind you, not a kit – for about 15 years. Hanna started working with him about six years ago, and they would brew every couple of weeks. A few years later, the other two joined in, and “we thought we could take this beyond something we were doing for fun, and make it something we could do professionally.” They came up with a business plan, and started looking into the licensing process, which he described as a six-to-eight-month waiting game. “I wouldn’t say it’s difficult. It’s comprehensive may be a better way of putting it,” Hanna said. He suggested that the ABC and the federal authorities want to have a thorough idea of who is getting into the business, and that they have the background to make it work. “The making the beer is the easy part it’s the business aspect that’s tough,” he said. For instance, two very well respected New Jersey microbreweries, Blue Collar Brewery in Vineland and Heavyweight Brewing in Ocean Township, have closed their doors, even though beer connoisseurs loved their product, “Obviously it wasn’t the beer that was the problem,” he said. All four men plan to keep their day jobs, and don’t expect the brewery to turn a profit for years, he said. This is the second microbrewery to launch in Cape May County recently. Former college buddies Ryan Krill and Chris Henke launched Cape May Brewery at the Cape May Airport in Erma, with plans to use local materials in their beers. Right before being interviewed, Hanna was on the phone with a representative of the state Department of Agriculture, to talk about the possibility of creating a beer that includes only New Jersey agricultural products. “Right now is a great time to get into it,” said Hanna. “There’s certainly plenty of room. The way I look at it, wouldn’t it be nice for people to be able to choose between several locally brewed beers?” |
| Partners crafting a plan for Dennis Township brewery | | | |
| Written by Bill Barlow |
| http://www.shorenewstoday.com/snt/news/index.php/2010-04-07-20-18-16/2010-04-07-20-18-16/13038-partners-crafting-a-plan-for-dennis-township-brewery.html |
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Equipment
Cheers,
Tuckahoe Brewing Company
Friday, June 3, 2011
Update from Tuckahoe Brewing Company
After a very positive and productive meeting with our accountant, our business plan is in order and complete. We are pushing through with paper work with both the State and the Feds, and we are exploring several options with financing. After a little snafu with the first site we are in the process of signing a new lease at a new location in Dennis Township. Very similar to the first site, about 1,100 sq ft. We will be ready to take occupancy in August. We will be brewing this Saturday, working on a new batch of our Pale Ale. Feedback from the last batch was very positive but we are still tweaking the recipe. Logo design, website, and equipment orders are right around the corner so stay tuned and stay thirsty. Good luck and stay in touch.
TBC
TBC
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
TAKE NOTICE!
http://www2.pressofac.com/classifieds/ads/24638361/
PUBLIC NOTICE Take notice that Tuckahoe Brewing Company, LLC trading as has applied to the Director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control for a limited brewery license for the premises situated at 369 Woodbine - Oceanview Rd. Unit 1, Ocean View NJ 08230-1324 and salesroom situated at N/A. Objections, if any should be made immediately in writing to the Director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, P.O. 087, Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0087. TUCKAHOE BREWING COMPANY, LLC 6 Prosit Lane, Seaville NJ 08230 MEMBERS: Timothy J. Hanna, Matthew N. McDevitt, Christopher S. Konicki , James E. McAfee Pub Dates: May 20 & 27, 2011
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Friday, May 20, 2011
Check out our write up on Beer-Stained Letter
http://beerstainedletter.blogspot.com
Cape May licensed; another nano emerges
Just as Cape May Brewing scores its state license to begin making beer, another Cape May County nanobrewery is emerging, hoping to fire up a kettle in the fall and launch with an American pale ale in New Jersey's southern shore draft beer market.
Tuckahoe Brewing Company is a foursome of homebrewers from Atlantic and Cape May counties who have been brewing together since 2006. They established their company back in January and earlier this month leased a 1,000-square-foot building at 369 Woodbine-Oceanview Road in Dennis Township, about a 20-mile ride up Route 9 from Cape May Brewing, which just became New Jersey's newest brewery and the state's second nanobrewery (behind Great Blue Brewing in Somerset County).
State regulators gave Cape May the green light to strike a mash following an inspection of their facility on Thursday. (Federal regulators signed off on the brewery in early April.) Ryan Krill, one of the three owners, says they expect to begin brewing sometime next week.
Matt McDevitt, one of the guys behind Tuckahoe Brewing, says he and his partners – Tim Hanna, Chris Konicki and Jim McAfee – have filed paperwork for a brewers notice with the federal government and for a limited brewery license with the state.
"Our goal is to get started around October/November, depending on how that gets processed," says McDevitt, whose day job is teaching at Mainlaind Regional High School in Linwood. Hanna and Konicki are also teachers at Mainland Regional; McAfee is an architect in Cape May County.
Ahead of them now is the task of getting a floor plan together and turning that into brewing space.
"We all get out of school in mid-June, and at that point we'll do some work on it, make it brewery-ready," McDevitt says. "We looked around for about two months for different places down in Cape May County and found a place that has pretty much everything we need, as far as a new-enough building that we don't have to do that much work to it."
The four plan to brew two to three times a week on a 3-barrel set-up to feed an inventory of sixtels and possibly half kegs. If all their recent outreach to Cape May County bars and restaurants to generate interest leads fortune to smile upon them, they'll look to boost their brewing capacity.
"Once things start to move in the right direction, the next step will be a 10-barrel system," McDevitt says.
The partners have been looking at brewing systems from a couple of fabricators who have become central to the burgeoning nano sector of craft brewing.
"Psycho (Brew) is one of the systems we're looking at. Obviously money is a factor, and that's one of the more affordable systems," McDevitt says. "The other is, we've looked at a system from Premier Stainless, which makes another 3-barrel model and will custom-fabricate a system."
Long-time followers of New Jersey's craft beer scene may remember the planned Tuckahoe Malt Brewing Company, which failed to get off the ground back in the mid-1990s. McDevitt says he and his partners approached the owners of that name about opening a brewpub under that banner, but opted for a nanobrewery instead and formed their business as Tuckahoe Brewing Company.
On their blog site, the four say they intend to launch with four styles: pale ale, wit, porter and another ale or pilsner made exclusively with agricultural products grown in New Jersey.
The pale ale, hopped with Cascade, possibly Centennial, and finished with Mount Hood, will likely be the company's flagship brew, McDevitt says.
"That will be what we start with. It's going to be high production with that," he says. "The plan is, right now, to make two seasonals, like a Belgian wit in the spring-summer and a smoked porter for the fall-winter.
Locally made, locally served is a guiding light for Tuckahoe Brewing's business model. McDevitt believes that's something the buying public is keen on these days.
"This area for the longest time hasn't had any local beers besides Flying Fish (from Cherry Hill), but even that is, a little bit, a ways away," he says. "So hopefully, we can do some good for the Cape May and Atlantic County areas, hopefully get some people excited about drinking some locally made beer."
Tuckahoe Brewing Company is a foursome of homebrewers from Atlantic and Cape May counties who have been brewing together since 2006. They established their company back in January and earlier this month leased a 1,000-square-foot building at 369 Woodbine-Oceanview Road in Dennis Township, about a 20-mile ride up Route 9 from Cape May Brewing, which just became New Jersey's newest brewery and the state's second nanobrewery (behind Great Blue Brewing in Somerset County).
State regulators gave Cape May the green light to strike a mash following an inspection of their facility on Thursday. (Federal regulators signed off on the brewery in early April.) Ryan Krill, one of the three owners, says they expect to begin brewing sometime next week.
Matt McDevitt, one of the guys behind Tuckahoe Brewing, says he and his partners – Tim Hanna, Chris Konicki and Jim McAfee – have filed paperwork for a brewers notice with the federal government and for a limited brewery license with the state.
"Our goal is to get started around October/November, depending on how that gets processed," says McDevitt, whose day job is teaching at Mainlaind Regional High School in Linwood. Hanna and Konicki are also teachers at Mainland Regional; McAfee is an architect in Cape May County.
Ahead of them now is the task of getting a floor plan together and turning that into brewing space.
"We all get out of school in mid-June, and at that point we'll do some work on it, make it brewery-ready," McDevitt says. "We looked around for about two months for different places down in Cape May County and found a place that has pretty much everything we need, as far as a new-enough building that we don't have to do that much work to it."
The four plan to brew two to three times a week on a 3-barrel set-up to feed an inventory of sixtels and possibly half kegs. If all their recent outreach to Cape May County bars and restaurants to generate interest leads fortune to smile upon them, they'll look to boost their brewing capacity.
"Once things start to move in the right direction, the next step will be a 10-barrel system," McDevitt says.
The partners have been looking at brewing systems from a couple of fabricators who have become central to the burgeoning nano sector of craft brewing.
"Psycho (Brew) is one of the systems we're looking at. Obviously money is a factor, and that's one of the more affordable systems," McDevitt says. "The other is, we've looked at a system from Premier Stainless, which makes another 3-barrel model and will custom-fabricate a system."
Long-time followers of New Jersey's craft beer scene may remember the planned Tuckahoe Malt Brewing Company, which failed to get off the ground back in the mid-1990s. McDevitt says he and his partners approached the owners of that name about opening a brewpub under that banner, but opted for a nanobrewery instead and formed their business as Tuckahoe Brewing Company.
On their blog site, the four say they intend to launch with four styles: pale ale, wit, porter and another ale or pilsner made exclusively with agricultural products grown in New Jersey.
The pale ale, hopped with Cascade, possibly Centennial, and finished with Mount Hood, will likely be the company's flagship brew, McDevitt says.
"That will be what we start with. It's going to be high production with that," he says. "The plan is, right now, to make two seasonals, like a Belgian wit in the spring-summer and a smoked porter for the fall-winter.
Locally made, locally served is a guiding light for Tuckahoe Brewing's business model. McDevitt believes that's something the buying public is keen on these days.
"This area for the longest time hasn't had any local beers besides Flying Fish (from Cherry Hill), but even that is, a little bit, a ways away," he says. "So hopefully, we can do some good for the Cape May and Atlantic County areas, hopefully get some people excited about drinking some locally made beer."
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