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Astoria’s Buoy Beer and Pilot House Distilling Are Preparing for Growth Along the Columbia River Buoy is adding a 50-barrel, four-vessel brewhouse, while Pilot House is relocating and installing a 5,000-liter copper still.
(Buoy, Beth Trelease)
Buoy Beer is expanding its footprint on Astoria's historic Riverwalk.
This last summer, the nearly 7-year-old brewery moved into the Astor Street building just across the path used by both pedestrians and a seasonal trolley from its pub and turned it into a giant drinking hall. Now the business is literally raising the roof on that structure in order to accommodate a new 50-barrel, four-vessel brewhouse along with more fermentation tanks.