Three local brewers are coming together like the "Three Musketeers" of craft beer.
The owners of Threefold Brewing are renovating the space at 1507 Powell St, the former home of Andina Brewing, and making a home for a trio of long-time and respected Vancouver beer companies.
"Threefold is a brewery collective," co-owner Matt Kump tells V.I.A. "The three breweries have existed for years now, since the mid-2010s, and they're coming together to share space, resources, skill sets, expertise, and a taproom."
The three brands coming together are Slow Hand Beer Company, Temporal Artisan Ales, and Boombox Brewing, with an ownership group including the brewers and others, like Kump.
"These breweries, in particular, they're all very craft-oriented," says Kump. "I don't mean that in the buzz term sense. I mean that they're all craftspeople."
Finding affordable space for a small brewery is difficult, Kump explains, and uniting together gives them all a chance to grow.
"It's just been impossible in this city [to find space to grow]," he says. "This opportunity kind of came to us earlier this year."
Kump notes that the brewers have known each other for a while and agreed sharing the space would be a great idea.
While Threefold will be the overarching company, Slow Hand, Temporal, and Boombox will still each be making their own recipes in the shared brewing space, and the taproom will have beers under each brewery's name.
"Their brands will stay their own brands," assures Kump. "They produce what they want, how they want, and that's what's gonna be on tap here and for sale to go."
A new taproom
While the brewing space is operational right now (and filled with brewing beers), the taproom is being renovated to have elements from each brewery's style.
"We're kind of going for a very comfortable space, very warm, inviting, themed kind of late-70s, early-80s hi-fi, to a degree," describes Kump.
Threefold is aiming to be open by February 2025.
A food program will be in place, but Kump says details are being sorted on that front. Generally, the goal is for a menu that's accessible, that people don't have to spend much time thinking about.
Once the taproom and menu are in place, Kump says beer-related events are the next step.
"I want to have events where we do things like pop-ups and bringing guest chefs in or something to do special events and beer pairings."
And, given the brewers' connections around the craft beer world already, they're planning on international collaborations. Kump says they're exploring working with American and Japanese brewers already, and they're looking to Belgium as well.
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