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After just two and a half years, Birdsong Brewing has outgrown their current space at 2315 North Davidson Street. As a result, they have signed a lease on a larger location just down the road at 1016 North Davidson near the McGill Rose Garden.

The brewery has experienced a 300 percent growth in production since opening in December of 2011, and the 17,000-square-foot building, coupled with a new 30-barrel Premier Stainless brewhouse, will allow them to better keep up with demand.

This will be a much larger operation than their current space, which is only 4,600 square feet and contains a 10-barrel brewhouse. Automating some of the brewing process will allow them to brew three times as much beer in a day with fewer labor hours.

Construction on the new space starts in July, and they hope to start brewing there this fall, with a new taproom to follow later in 2014. Until then, you can continue to visit Birdsong’s current location at 2315 North Davidson.

In 2012, the brewery produced 740 barrels of beer. In 2015, they hope to reach a capacity of 5,400 barrels a year.

The additional space and fermentation capacity will also allow head brewer Conor Robinson to brew new beers, or to possibly turn some popular seasonal selections into year-round offerings. And while Birdsong has aged beers in barrels before, their new space will allow them more room for a dedicated barrel-aging program. They also plan to start packaging their beers in the future.

This news comes on the same day that Birdsong’s next-door neighbors, NoDa Brewing, announced they would be looking for an additional location and eventually installing their own canning line (Land of the Sky Mobile Canning currently cans their beer for them). Meanwhile The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery is hard at work on their new location, which they plan to open to the public on July 19.