Mother's Brewing - Update - Interview with Jeremy Wicks

For the next three weeks, I’ll be posting an interview with a different member of the leadership team at Mother’s Brewing Company each week.  First up is the Director of Sales and Marketing, Jeremy Wicks.  Jeremy currently acts as the face of Mother’s Brewing for most purposes, and his energy is what drives the social media presence and website of Mother’s Brewing Company.  I spoke with Jeremy about Mother’s Brewing, the importance of bringing a production brewery to downtown Springfield, and why Mother’s wants so badly to be a part of your life.

Mother's Brewing - Update - Brewhouse Information and Beer Profiles

Recently, I had a rare opportunity to take a peek behind the doors of Mother’s Brewing Company, slated to open this spring.  Jeremy Wicks, the Director of Sales and Marketing, gave an intimate tour of the brewery to a dozen or so local beer fans, and I slipped in with them.

What those on the tour saw was an incomplete brewery with a lot of promise.  The brewery will open with a 30 barrel (bbl) brew house, which means they will make the equivalent of 60 kegs in a single batch.  They’ll have a potential annual production of 5,000 bbls to start (10,000 of those standard-kegs).  They will have several large aging tanks for their big batches, but they’ve also recently received an additional four 30 bbl aging tanks so they can make some very special beers without inhibiting their production schedule.

They’ve done an excellent job of utilizing anything they could from the old Butternut building, including reusing anything they can, scrapping anything metal they can’t, and not removing anything which may come in handy sometime soon.  They even have plans to utilize the pneumatic tubes which the old bread factory used to transport factory. 

Of course, anyone who just wants to drink their beer isn’t worried about all of that.  They are wondering what kind of beers will be produced, and when will they be available?

To start this spring (yes, as in a few months from now), Mother’s will brew three beers in constant production which will be available immediately.  While they have not finalized any recipe of the three featured beers, they do have a very clear picture of what they would like these three beers to be to local beer fans. 

In Related News - Midwest Beer Collective's Interbrew with SGF's Mother's Brewing Company

Since we’re all looking forward to the opening of Mother’s Brewing Company this spring, here’s a little peak into the minds of the three prime movers in the venture.  Anthony Cefali of the Midwest Beer Collective did a brief interview with the Mother’s Boys and it’s an entertaining, if brief, article. 

For any beer fans out there who don’t already know, Mother’s Brewing Company is opening in the butternut factory located in downtown Springfield, Mo.  The prime movers are Jeff Schrag, Brian Allen, and Jeremy Wicks.  With the combined talents of these gentlemen, I think you can expect some really great beer to flow from the 30 barrel brew house out there. 

Look forward to seeing a few more posts about them in the near future.