Calfkiller Brewing Company is a
brewery
A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of bee ...
in
, USA.
History
Calfkiller Brewing Company was founded by brothers Dave and
Don Sergio
Don Sergio is a guitarist from Sparta, Tennessee who played with the American rock group, The Features, from 1993 through 1998.
Biography
Sergio joined with Matt Pelham and Roger Dabbs to form The Features while the three went to middle school ...
. The brothers began brewery construction in June 2007, and produced their first commercial beer in July 2010.
The name Calfkiller is taken from the
Calfkiller River
The Calfkiller River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed June 8, 2011 stream in the east-central portion of Middle Tennessee in the United States. It is a tributary of ...
, which runs through Sparta, Tennessee. Calfkiller has participated in several beer festivals, including the 2011 Nashville Beer Festival
and the 2012 East Nashville Beer Festival.
As of 2012, the brewery had seven beers in production, with distribution limited to restaurant taps and
growler fills only.
See also
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Beer in the United States
Beer in the United States is manufactured by more than 7,000 breweries, which range in size from industry giants to brew pubs and microbreweries. The United States produced 196 million barrels () of beer in 2012, and consumes roughly of be ...
References
External links
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Beer brewing companies based in Tennessee
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