Eastern Market Brewing Co. expanding to former ROAK facility in Royal Oak
and last updated 2021-05-07 09:20:30-04
(WXYZ) â Eastern Market Brewing Co. is expanding once again, this time to Royal Oak into the former ROAK facility just off of Main St.
It comes more than a year after the brewery opened Ferndale Project, in the former Axle Brewing Co. space, right before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Since the pandemic, the company launched several new businesses, including Peddler home delivery service. ROAK, which has a 17,000 square-foot warehouse and a 30-barrel brewhouse, will serve as the new permanent home for Peddler.
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DETROIT (FOX 2) - Eastern Market Brewing Co. (EMBC) announced Wednesday that it will expand into the former Roak Brewing space in Royal Oak.
Late last year Roak said that it was closing the taproom and all beer production would be done in Marshall. At the time, it said it was in talks with local breweries about who may occupy the taproom in the future.
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EMBC, which expanded in February 2020 when it launched the Ferndale Project, was looking for a place for its Peddler beer delivery service. This service was started to deliver craft brews to people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Another Detroit-area brewery is taking over the former Roak Brewing Co. taproom and production facility in Royal Oak.
Eastern Market Brewing Co. which also owns and runs Ferndale Project in nearby Ferndale has signed a 5-year lease for the 17,000-square-foot space at 330 East Lincoln Avenue, with plans to expand beer production and open a taproom at the location by the end of the year, under a unique brand name.
Eastern Market Brewing Co. also purchased the equipment inside the facility, which includes a 30-barrel brewhouse system, a full-size kitchen and a pizza oven, and plans to use the space to host the other ancillary businesses it created during the COVID-19 pandemic. That includes Peddler, a food and beer delivery service that launched in March 2020 just as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued a stay-home order and closed indoor dining across Michigan, and Dooped Donuts, a vegan doughnut company.
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