O’Fallon Brewery mulls contract brewing
Lager Heads headed down to the Schlafly Tap Room tonight to chat with Tony Caradonna, one of the co-founders of O’Fallon Brewery. Tony is an enthusiastic guy, and he should be — his microbrewery tucked into an industrial park up in O’Fallon, Mo. is apparently doing quite well. He’s been shopping around for investors who might help the company expand into a new brewery.
Now, the company is looking at another possibility: signing up another brewer to brew O’Fallon beer to fill growing demand. Local guys are too jammed with their own liquid right now, so Tony is mulling a brewery — didn’t say the name — in Wisconsin. Signing up a contractor could add 80,000 cases to O’Fallon’s capacity, roughly doubling the company’s size, said Tony.
Also, the company is “missing a lot of opportunities” by distributing its own beer, he said. O’Fallon is hoping to sign up an outside distributor in the next few months, which could lighten the workload.
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Jeremiah McWilliams is a native Virginian who came to the Post-Dispatch in early 2007 to cover beer and other consumer products. He previously covered manufacturing for the Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, Va. He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University. 
Dollars to donuts the Wisconsin brewery is Sand Creek up in Black River Falls. They contract brew virtually everything in the Midwest.
I’d love to see O’Fallon expand. They make great beer. Their repuation exceeds it’s distribution range. In the last few months I’ve shipped a 6 pack of their 5-day IPA to someone in New York and someone in Arizona that was looking for it. Even with the expansion they’re currently talking about, their distribution wouldn’t reach New York or Arizona, but I don’t think they’ll have a problem selling at all.
I wish Schafly well. We moved from St. Charles a year ago to Cleveland, Ohio. Although Cleveland has a very good microbrew in Great Lakes Brewing Co., I still miss a good ole Schalfy Pale Ale. Again Good Luck and I’ll be the first with a 6 pack here in NE Ohio if it all works out.