Allagash Brewing Co.’s success in Chicago may be convincing other craft brewers they might also do well there, the Chicago Tribune reports.
The story cites Detroit’s Atwater Brewery as looking at Allagash’s model in deciding whether to open in Chicago, a traditionally brew-friendly city.
“We’ve been studying the market in Chicago for more than a year, and it’s a very important market,” Atwater founder Mark Rieth told the Tribune. “Our presence there is not what we want it to be. This would be the next step.”
Allagash Brewing, which is based in Portland, is Maine’s second-largest brewery, behind Shipyard Brewing Co., according to the Brewers Association, a trade group based in Boulder, Colo.
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