The largest brewery to be constructed in the U.S. in decades relied on early communication and intensive collaboration between the Clayco crew and the team at Mark Anthony Brewing. The project kicked off with a week-long, in-person conference in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, where almost 150 stakeholder representatives hammered out the project’s sequencing and priorities.
Speed to market was imperative for the brewery, which produces 80 million cases of beverages per year, and the project team was able to deliver the massive, 1.3-million-sq-ft brewing facility less than 10 months after the design phase began. The massive output of popular beverages like White Claw Hard Seltzer and Mike’s Hard Lemonade required a hefty amount of infrastructure, including more than 14 miles of process piping, three miles of underground plumbing, 17 miles of utility piping and nearly 1,000 tanks.