$18 million upgrade underway at Anheuser-Busch brewery in Fort Collins

The Anheuser-Busch brewery successful Fort Collins is getting an $18.2 cardinal upgrade to its brewing and packaging operations, which the institution hopes volition marque it much more businesslike and trim its biology impact.

Senior General Manager Gene Bocis said Wednesday that astir $7 cardinal volition beryllium utilized to bargain caller brewing instrumentality that reduces c dioxide vulnerability and h2o consumption. Another $7.4 cardinal volition beryllium enactment toward upgrading packaging lines truthful the brewery tin crook retired a wider assortment of products and faster.

Bocis said the extremity is to chopped down connected proscription costs, the magnitude of cardboard utilized and, ultimately, shorten the clip it takes to get brew connected shelves.

The concern is geared toward satisfying brew lovers who are progressively drinking astatine location versus astatine the bar, owed successful nary tiny portion to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We’re seeing a ample propulsion to merchandise that is successful aluminum cans, which I deliberation are much prevalent to beryllium consumed astatine home,” Bocis said. “That’s wherever we’re seeing the biggest shift.”

The Fort Collins brewery produces 36 antithetic malt beverage and brew brands, Bocis said, from staples similar Budweiser and Michelob Ultra to trade brands similar Goose Island and Elysian. Bocis declined to remark connected the facility’s yearly brewing capacity, but said it brews, packages and ships brew to each 50 states.

Construction is presently underway successful Fort Collins and expected to beryllium finished aboriginal this year, according to the announcement.

The currency infusion astatine the Fort Collins brewery is portion of a larger concern strategy, with Anheuser-Busch readying to walk upwards of $1 cardinal implicit the adjacent 2 years successful the 26 states it does concern with an oculus to revitalizing those communities.