Silver Branch Brewing Company has announced its expansion location: the former True Respite Brewing Company site at 7301 Calhoun Place in Derwood, which closed last year.
Last month, the brewery announced its intention to expand to Rockville and would seek public investment to enhance its offerings and relocate brewing facilities to the new location. The Rockville Beerworks would be the brewery’s third since opening in downtown Silver Spring in March 2019 and in Warrenton, Va., in 2023.
The brewery launched an investment campaign on Honeycomb Credit, the same crowdfunding platform that the local coffee roaster Bump ‘n Grind used to successfully fund the expansion of its Analog Market community hub in downtown Silver Spring.
Silver Branch’s downtown Silver Spring brewery reached total capacity within a year of opening in 2019. It had previously announced plans to merge with Old Ox Brewing in April 2022, but the two breweries called off the merger three months later.
“We were running at capacity much sooner than expected and began considering different opportunities to expand, including partnering with other breweries, but we couldn’t find the right fit,” marketing director Chris Bonnell said in an interview with the Prince William Times last year.
Along with the Derwood expansion, Silver Branch owners Christian Layke and Brett Robison plan to use the funding to expand distribution to Virginia and Delaware, enhance its Warrenton location, and launch its Mosaic Pizza brand, as well as launch a Mosaic Pizza Truck and Silver Branch Bierwagon.
After moving the brewing equipment to the former True Respite facility, Mosaic Pizza’s downtown Silver Spring and Warrenton locations will be expanded with a full kitchen co-located with each of Silver Branch’s taproom locations.
They plan to launch a beer and food delivery service and convert the space occupied by the brewing equipment at the downtown Silver Spring location into an event space overlooking Colesville Road.
“Silver Branch has been capacity-limited for over two years,” the brewery said in its investment campaign listing. “We have needed more space to brew so we can meet the demand of Silver Branch beer in wholesale, and we have needed more space to build a kitchen in Silver Spring so we can meet the demand for private events and a more diverse menu for groups and family dining.”
The public investment campaign concludes on October 31 and has raised over $120,000.
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