Arbor Brewing Company to Open Second Location in India

Arbor Brewing Company to Open Second Location in India

Matt and Rene Greff are the husband-and-wife team who founded Michigan’s Arbor Brewing Company in 1995, with locations in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. Together with Gaurav Sikka, these Michigan craft brewing pioneers have taken on the Indian beer world. The Greffs met Sikka when he was a graduate student at the University of Michigan and a regular at their Ann Arbor brewery. Originally from Bangalore, Sikka saw an opportunity in India’s burgeoning beer scene and asked if the Greffs would like to work together. They agreed, and in 2012 ABC India opened in Bangalore with Sikka as the brewery’s managing director. At the time, it was one of the city’s first brewpubs, but today there are over 30, and that number is growing rapidly. The 12,000-square-foot restaurant and brewery now produces over 2,000 barrels a year. To meet demand, the team has added a production brewery in Goa, a coastal state in western India, opening in November. This 20,000-square-foot facility will package cans and kegs for distribution with an initial capacity of 6,000 barrels and the possibility of expanding […]

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