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Do we know who the actual proprietor of the brewery is?

Do we know who the actual proprietor of the brewery is?

Roklahoma?

It's not Dead Armadillo. 

Well Duh, “Renaissance”  :P

Have you heard anything about the brewery in Stillwater?  Their license is filed but I’ve heard nothing from them since last October when I went to look over the site for a boiler system.  None of my Stilly friends seem to know anything.  Seems like if that were moving along, they’d at least be creating a buzz via social media.

Who knows somebody might have been building a brewery and letting Dead Armadillo use it for a fee.  A cooperative brewery... Anyway

Hell, even Bomb and Bible Belt aren’t exactly difficult to find now.  Bomb isn’t something I’d sit and drink three or four of over the course of an evening.  That’s a once in a while nightcap for me.

Prairie wants too much $ for them to be a regular beer for me.  When they had the Standard in 6-packs for under $9, I bought it on a regular basis.  When they went to just under $9 for a 4-pack of the same beer, I said "no".  I bought a bottle of Bomb to try it.  I liked it but at $5+ for a 12 oz bottle, I'm not going to buy it more than a couple of times a year.

The price of bomber bottles from just about everyone is silly.  The same beer in 11.2 or 12 oz 6-packs is considerably less per oz.

As a point of reference: $8 for a 22 oz bottle is the equivalent of $26.18 for a 6-pack of 12 oz bottles (or cans for you wise guys).  That really needs to be a pretty special beer at that price.

Have you picked up a six of any of the Founder’s varieties yet? Really great from what I’ve tried so far.  There again, one more entry into a pretty crowded market.  It’s amazing how many beers Oklahoma still does not get.  With new ones arriving all the time, it’s easy for me to forget about some of the beers I’ve tried in the past.

Do we know who the actual proprietor of the brewery is?

The Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission on Wednesday recommended approval of a zoning application to construct and operate a microbrewery at the northeast corner of Lewis Avenue and 12th Street.

The application now goes to the City Council for consideration.

Renaissance Brewing Co. would be the first brewery to produce full-strength beer in a commercially zoned area of the city. The city's zoning code restricts such breweries to industrial-zoned parts of the city.

To circumvent that prohibition, the applicant, Glenn Hall, proposed a planned unit development — a commonly used planning tool that allows for property uses in areas where the underlying zoning would not normally allow them.

Commissioners voted 7-0 to recommend approval of the PUD and a change in a portion of the underlying property's zoning from commercial to industrial to allow the brewery.

According to the PUD, the Renaissance Brewing Co. would be part of a new two-story, 7,100-square-foot structure that would include the brewery and retail space on the first floor and possibly office and residential areas on the second floor.
The brewery would be limited to producing 5,000 barrels of beer a year.

The brewery would only brew and bottle beer, not sell it on site. That's not allowed under state law.

Hall told commissioners Wednesday he plans to use some of the first-floor retail space to offer beer tastings and sell merchandise.

He has said previously that he hopes to have the brewery up and running by early next year.

Tulsa has seen microbrewery pubs come and go in commercial districts, but those establishments were first and foremost considered restaurants for zoning purposes and were limited to selling 3.2 beer.

I tried one each in a mix-a-six of Founder's Centennial IPA, Porter, and Dirty Bastard Scotch Style Ale.  I liked them all of them but at 8.5% I was kind of expecting a Wee Heavy on the Scotch Ale and it was not.  It was still good though.

Founders makes great beer.  Founders All Day IPA has become my go-to.   It is right on the edge of strong Pale Ale and an IPA.   Very light.  Maybe that's why it is "All Day IPA".  Good stuff.

It's difficult to believe this thread has been revived from three years ago.

I really like Founders KBS.  Too bad it's a seasonal and really expensive.

I always get excited about new breweries opening in town.  I am really hoping that we can get some more, they can really help bring a little bit of tourism.  At least, I know I go out of state to see take brewery tours.