Thanks to Bell's, pretty soon you will be able to order a draught beer like the kind your grandfather once enjoyed.
As part of a $20 million facility expansion, the Kalamazoo brewer plans to rebuild 100-year-old fermenter barrels used by Stroh's Detroit brewery until the 1960s.
MLive: Bell's production manager John Mallett said the fermenters will be used to make draught-only beers using an open-fermentation process.
Kalamazoo custom-builder and woodworker Rock Bartley said he began assembling the barrels last week, after about two months of cleaning and refinishing the wood.
Bell's was founded as the Kalamazoo Brewing Company in 1983. It began selling its own beer in 1985 and has grown from 185 barrel/year operation to producing over 500,000 barrels annually.
