It was just about a year ago, in my profile of rabidly-popular Three Floyds Brewing, that founder Nick Floyd revealed he intends to open a brewpub in Chicago. He didn't offer many more details, except to say that it (thankfully and obviously) won't be downtown.

Well, it's a year later, and there's been no word on a Floyds pub in Chicago. What gives?

Brewery President Barnaby Struve told me this week that the pub will exist. Most of the people who run Floyds live in Chicago, and they want to be here. But it probably won't happen any time soon.

"It will happen, but what is paramount to us — our primary objective — is we're constantly trying to expand," Struve said. "We're trying to get beer into people's hands before we start other kinds of projects."

Fair enough, considering that many stores literally can't keep Floyds beer on its shelves. Among the steps the Munster, Ind.-based brewery is taking to boost production is automating certain parts of its brewing system in May, which will make the brewing process more efficient, Struve said.

But he swore the brewpub will happen.

"We are constantly looking at options," he said. "If something comes up that we can't turn down, that would be different. But as of now, there's no property under contract and no business plan. Chicago is our home and we love it and we want to be up here, but nothing is on the radar."

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