New Glarus Brewing shares construction update, opening timeline for $55 million expansion

In October 2024, New Glarus Brewing broke ground on its 65,000 square-foot expansion of its Hilltop building, 2400 State Highway 69, New Glarus, including its brew hall, parking lot, new Sugar River Distillery and hospitality facilities.

One year later, the $55 million construction project, led by Wisconsin-based Keller Construction, is on budget and on track to be completed by the fall of 2026. Allotting time to move in and hire new employees, the new facilities are scheduled to open to the public in early summer of 2027.

“We started construction with our retail space, built into the hillside at the lowest level, and simultaneously started our Brew Hall addition at the top,” Katherine May, the project’s lead architect and construction manager, said in an email. “We change elevation about 60 feet as the design marches up the hill in a line, connecting the flat area at the bottom of the hill to our existing facility at the top of the hill. And we recently celebrated the milestone of these two building ends finally connecting.”

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